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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- interrupted Lady Helena; "you and your brother are not strangers in this house, and I should like Lord Glenarvan to be able on his arrival to tell the children of Captain Grant himself, what is going to be done to rescue their father."
-- There was no knowing what might happen, and it is always well to be able to send a good round bullet flying four miles off.
-- Lady Helena and Mary Grant were able to come on deck at daybreak, where they found Lord Glenarvan, Major McNabbs and the captain.
-- Lady Helena and Miss Grant were too astonished to be able to utter a single word.
-- "Very well, Monsieur Paganel, it shall be as you wish; and, for my own part, I am very glad to be able to offer you, meantime, a few days' hospitality.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In these days of nouveaux riches it is refreshing to find a case where the scion of an old county family which has fallen upon evil days is able to make his own fortune and to bring it back with him to restore the fallen grandeur of his line.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Middleton had the advantage of being able to spoil her children all the year round, while Sir John's independent employments were in existence only half the time.
-- The house and the garden, with all the objects surrounding them, were now become familiar, and the ordinary pursuits which had given to Norland half its charms were engaged in again with far greater enjoyment than Norland had been able to afford, since the loss of their father.
-- She had raised herself from the ground, but her foot had been twisted in her fall, and she was scarcely able to stand.
-- "You decide on his imperfections so much in the mass," replied Elinor, "and so much on the strength of your own imagination, that the commendation I am able to give of him is comparatively cold and insipid.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If some seemingly vulnerable object appeared he was all attention-- to pass the compliments of the day, to lead the way to the parlor car, carrying her grip, or, failing that, to take a seat next her with the hope of being able to court her to her destination.
-- He would be able to flash a roll of greenbacks too some day.
-- Ah, what was it not to have money!What a thing it was to be able to come in here and dine!Drouet must be fortunate.
-- If it had not been for this, if she had not been able to measure and judge him in a way, she would have been worse off than she was.
-- A few years later, with a little more experience, the slightest tide of success, and he had not been able to approach Carrie at all.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But still I'm jist as able to be sorry for Mr. Wilks for not arriving in time, all the same, if he's missed anything by it which I hope he hasn't.'
-- You don't HAVE to be able to read it.
-- We didn't cook none of the pies in the wash-pan afraid the solder would melt; but Uncle Silas he had a noble brass warming-pan which he thought consider- able of, because it belonged to one of his ancesters with a long wooden handle that come over from Eng- land with William the Conqueror in the Mayflower or one of them early ships and was hid away up garret with a lot of other old pots and things that was valu-able, not on account of being any account, be- cause they warn't, but on account of them being relicts, you know, and we snaked her out, private, and took her down there, but she failed on the first pies, because we didn't know how, but she come up smiling on the last one.
-- No, there warn't no real scarcity of snakes about the house for a consider- able spell.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It must be wonderful, one that will be able to dance, fence, and turn somersaults.
-- The poor Cat felt very weak, and he was able to eat only thirty-five mullets with tomato sauce and four portions of tripe with cheese.
-- Enraged at not being able to fight the Marionette at close quarters, they started to throw all kinds of books at him.
-- "It's true," answered the Fisherman; "but since I see that you are a fish, well able to talk and think as I do, I'll treat you with all due respect."
-- The day came at last when Pinocchio's master was able to announce an extraordinary performance.
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