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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom; but when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this time the storm was much abated.
-- I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir: for, as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Josiah Bounderby of Coketown learnt his letters from the outsides of the shops, Mrs. Gradgrind, and was first able to tell the time upon a dial-plate, from studying the steeple clock of St. Giles's Church, London, under the direction of a drunken cripple, who was a convicted thief, and an incorrigible vagrant.
-- Bring to me, says M'Choakumchild, yonder baby just able to walk, and I will engage that it shall never wonder.
-- Now, besides very many babies just able to walk, there happened to be in Coketown a considerable population of babies who had been walking against time towards the infinite world, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years and more.
-- 'Because, Tom,' said his sister, after silently watching the sparks awhile, 'as I get older, and nearer growing up, I often sit wondering here, and think how unfortunate it is for me that I can't reconcile you to home better than I am able to do.
-- Such a woman!A disabled, drunken creature, barely able to preserve her sitting posture by steadying herself with one begrimed hand on the floor, while the other was so purposeless in trying to p. 53push away her tangled hair from her face, that it only blinded her the more with the dirt upon it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 37 THE MYSTERIOUS DAGGER CHAPTER 38 NO OUTLET--BLASTING THE ROCK CHAPTER 39 THE EXPLOSION AND ITS RESULTS CHAPTER 40 THE APE GIGANS CHAPTER 41 HUNGER CHAPTER 42 THE VOLCANIC SHAFT CHAPTER 43 DAYLIGHT AT LAST CHAPTER 44 THE JOURNEY ENDED CHAPTER 1 MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my adventures.
-- There was a reason, and it may be regarded as a good one, why my uncle objected to display his learning more than was absolutely necessary: he stammered; and when intent upon explaining the phenomena of the heavens, was apt to find himself at fault, and allude in such a vague way to sun, moon, and stars that few were able to comprehend his meaning.
-- My lessons lasted five days, and at the end of that period, I ascended blithely enough, and found myself able to look down into the depths below without even winking, and with some degree of pleasure.
-- H. D. Ruhmkorff, an able and learned chemist, discovered the induction coil.
-- The unhappy wretches never came forward to beg; on the contrary, they ran away; not so quick, however, but that Hans was able to salute them with the universal saellvertu.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She herself had never been able to be al-together herself: it had been denied her.
-- 'You've got to have a certain amount of it to be able to live and get along...even to be free to THINK you must have a certain amount of money, or your stomach stops you.
-- If we stick to that we ought to be able to arrange this sex thing, as we arrange going to the dentist; since fate has given us a checkmate physically there.'
-- I don't in the least want to turn you out of your hut, thank you!I only wanted to be able to sit here sometimes, like today.
-- 'Oh, your Ladyship!Why, I shall never be able to thank you.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, John Baptist, now able to choose his own spot within the compass of those walls for the exercise of his faculty of going to sleep when he would, lay down upon the bench, with his face turned over on his crossed arms, and slumbered.
-- Pet and her baby sister were so exactly alike, and so completely one, that in our thoughts we have never been able to separate them since.
-- 'Not,' said Pet, apologetically and embarrassed by her eyes, 'not, of course, that we are any company to you, or that we have been able to be so, or that we thought you wished it.'
-- 'I am able,' said Mrs Clennam, with a slight motion of her worsted-muffled right hand toward a chair on wheels, standing before a tall writing cabinet close shut up, 'I am able to attend to my business duties, and I am thankful for the privilege.
-- I cannot say that I have been able to conform myself, in heart and spirit, to your rules; I cannot say that I believe my forty years have been profitable or pleasant to myself, or any one; but I have habitually submitted, and I only ask you to remember it.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he said it was good, and I shall write more, and he's going to get the next paid for, and I am so happy, for in time I may be able to support myself and help the girls.'
-- It's no use, Jo, he's got to learn that I'm able to take care of my-self, and don't need anyone's apron string to hold on by.'
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