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。
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both of us were able to look in by standing on the basement, and clinging to the ledge, and we saw ah!it was beautiful a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson covered chairs and tables, and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold, a shower of glass drops hanging in silver chains from the centre, and shimmering with little soft tapers.
-- Who knows but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen, each of them able to buy up, with one week's income, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange together?
-- He told his wife the same story, and she seemed to believe him; but one night, while leaning on his shoulder, in the act of saying she thought she should be able to get up to morrow, a fit of coughing took her a very slight one he raised her in his arms; she put her two hands about his neck, her face changed, and she was dead.
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