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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Incredible as it may ap-pear to you, Mr. Holmes, he was honestly convinced that a dreadful fate overhung his family, and certainly the re-cords which he was able to give of his ancestors were not encouraging.
-- 'On the night of Sir Charles's death Barrymore the butler, who made the discovery, sent Perkins the groom on horse-back to me, and as I was sitting up late I was able to reach Baskerville Hall within an hour of the event.
-- The only other kinsman whom we have been able to trace was Rodger Baskerville, the youngest of three brothers of whom poor Sir Charles was the elder.
-- I understand that you think out little puzzles, and I've had one this morning which wants more thinking out than I am able to give it.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While still young the wife had been able to make important friends among the aristocracy, partly by virtue of her family descent, and part-ly by her own exertions; while, in after life, thanks to their wealth and to the position of her husband in the service, she took her place among the higher circles as by right.
-- Doubt-less there may be men who have been sentenced, who have suffered this mental anguish for a while and then have been reprieved; perhaps such men may have been able to relate their feelings afterwards.
-- Come along; you sit here, opposite to me,' she continued, 'I wish to be able to see your face.
-- He must know that if he 'broke off everything,' FIRST, by himself, and without telling me a word about it or having the slightest hope on my account, that in that case I should perhaps be able to change my opinion of him, and even ac-cept his friendship.
-- I might have guessed it, oh!curse him!Of course she did not understand what I meant, naturally!Why-why-WHY didn't you give her the note, you ' 'Excuse me; I was able to deliver it almost immediately after receiving your commission, and I gave it, too, just as you asked me to.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will return to Olympus twelve days hence; I will then go to his mansion paved with bronze and will beseech him; nor do I doubt that I shall be able to persuade him.'
-- But they have in the town allies from other places, and it is these that hinder me from being able to sack the rich city of Ilius.
-- He now abides at the ships in anger with Agamemnon shepherd of his people, but there are many of us who are well able to face you; therefore begin the fight.'
-- Any one else would hardly have been able to lift it from the table when it was full, but Nestor could do so quite easily.
-- Say, noble Eurypylus, will the Achaeans be able to hold great Hector in check, or will they fall now before his spear?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Attempts were At Once made to secure him, but casting off his garments, it says, he succeeded in escaping, but not until after a desperate struggle, in which he had inflicted serious injuries, it says, on our worthy and able constable, Mr. J.
-- I thought that I should be able to slip out unobserved in the morning with my clothes upon me, muffling my face with a white wrapper I had taken, purchase, with the money I had taken, spectacles and so forth, and so complete my disguise.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a day of alternate sleep and feeding I was so far re-covered as to be able to get from my bunk to the scuttle, and see the green seas trying to keep pace with us.
-- Then, 'When you will be able to get away, I can't say.
-- When his scars were quite healed, and he was no longer anything but painful and stiff, and able to converse a little, I took him yonder and introduced him to the Kanakas as an interest-ing stowaway.
-- But I have confided my case to a strangely able man, a man who had known Moreau, and seemed half to credit my story; a mental specialist, and he has helped me mightily, though I do not expect that the terror of that island will ever altogether leave me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though a young wolf would have remem-bered that advice every hour, Mowgli forgot it because he was only a boy though he would have called himself a wolf if he had been able to speak in any human tongue.
-- Neither Baloo nor Bagheera will be able to hunt with pleasure for many days.'
-- 'If he is living still, he'll be able to tell you.'
-- In another five years you ought to be able to fight for yourself.'
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