able是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有(能力、 时间、 知识等) 做某事， 有本事的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I shall be able to take my coffee out of it every morning for the rest of my days, thank the Lord!I am not to be pitied.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil.
-- A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his ser-vices.
-- Two days passed in this manner before he was able to speak, and I often feared that his sufferings had deprived him of understanding.
-- I have prevented his encountering the inconveniences and perhaps dangers of so long a journey, yet how often have I regretted not being able to perform it myself!I figure to myself that the task of attending on your sickbed has devolved on some mercenary old nurse, who could never guess your wishes nor minister to them with the care and affection of your poor cousin.
-- In another fortnight I was able to leave my chamber.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was as forthright and simple as the windsthat blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound about it, and to the end of her days she would never be able tounderstand a complexity.
-- His habits of living and his ideas changed, but his manners he would not change,even had he been able to change them.
-- It was Gerald's headstrong and impetuous nature in her that gave them concern,and they sometimes feared they would not be able to conceal her damaging qualities until she had made a good match.
-- Scarlett obediently sat down before the tray, wondering if she would be able to get any food into her stomach andstill have room to breathe.
-- We nurse the men and help the doctors and makebandages and clothes and when the men are well enough to leave the hospitals we take them into our homes toconvalesce till they are able to go back in the army.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter VIIAt the time when I stood in the churchyard reading the family tombstones, I had just enough learning to be able to spell them out.
-- In time I were able to keep him, and I kep him till he went off in a purple leptic fit.
-- And how should I be able to answer, dodged in that way, in a strange place, on an empty stomach!I was hungry, but before I had swallowed a morsel, he began a running sum that lasted all through the breakfast.
-- And then I told Joe that I felt very miserable, and that I hadn't been able to explain myself to Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook, who were so rude to me, and that there had been a beautiful young lady at Miss Havisham's who was dreadfully proud, and that she had said I was common, and that I knew I was common, and that I wished I was not common, and that the lies had come of it somehow, though I didn't know how.
-- I could answer this inquiry with a better heart than I had been able to find for the other question, and I said I was quite willing.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If I have only a piece of bread (and I certainly shall always be able to get that), I can, whenever I like, eat my butter and cheese with it; and when I am thirsty I can milk my cow and drink the milk: and what can I wish for more?'
-- Then she gave him a cloak, and said, 'As soon as you put that on you will become invisible, and you will then be able to follow the princesses wherever they go.'
-- 'What nonsense,' thought the princess, 'this silly frog is talking!He can never even get out of the spring to 61visit me, though he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks.'
-- 'Yes; but you must get up behind, or my horses will not be able to draw you.'
-- 'You can certainly throw,' said the giant, 'but now we will see if you are able to carry anything properly.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I observe, when any Yahoo comes from London out of cu-riosity to visit me at my house, we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.
-- Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that, by the instructions and example of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans.
-- We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being al-ready spent with labour while we were in the ship.
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