defect是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 欠缺, 缺点; vi. 背叛, 逃跑, 开小差，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's not a man, but a machine, and a spiteful machine when he's angry," she added, recalling Alexey Alexandrovitch as she spoke, with all the peculiarities of his figure and manner of speaking, and reckoning against him every defect she could find in him, softening nothing for the great wrong she herself was doing him.
-- "...In the following cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without communication for five years," he said, crooking a short finger covered with hair, "adultery" (this word he pronounced with obvious satisfaction), "subdivided as follows" (he continued to crook his fat fingers, though the three cases and their subdivisions could obviously not be classified together): "physical defect of the husband or of the wife, adultery of the husband or of the wife."
-- They said that there was no denying his talent, but that his talent could not develop for want of education-- the common defect of our Russian artists.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What he said had a hateful truth in it, and another defect of my character is that I enjoy the company of those, however depraved, who can give me a Roland for my Oliver.
-- But my study of Strickland's character suffers from a greater defect than my ignorance of many facts.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This may be said to be a defect in an individual if he depends for his valuation more upon his appearance than upon his capacity to wear well, which Oak did not.
-- He had been without them for so many years that toothlessness was felt less to be a defect than hard gums an acquisition.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was so lucky as to light upon some one who did not laugh at his ignorance, a fatal defect among the gilded and insolent youth of that period; the coterie of Maulincourts, Maximes de Trailles, de Marsays, Ronquerolles, Ajuda-Pintos, and Vandenesses who shone there in all the glory of coxcombry among the best-dressed women of fashion in Paris--Lady Brandon, the Duchesse de Langeais, the Comtesse de Kergarouet, Mme.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And these people thought it a prodigious defect of policy among us, when I told them that our laws were enforced only by penalties, without any mention of reward.
-- A strange effect of narrow principles and views!that a prince possessed of every quality which procures venera-tion, love, and esteem; of strong parts, great wisdom, and profound learning, endowed with admirable talents, and almost adored by his subjects, should, from a nice, unneces-sary scruple, whereof in Europe we can have no conception, let slip an opportunity put into his hands that would have made him absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of his people!Neither do I say this, with the least intention to detract from the many virtues of that excellent king, whose character, I am sensible, will, on this account, be very much lessened in the opinion of an English reader: but I take this defect among them to have risen from their ignorance, by not having hitherto reduced politics into a science, as the more acute wits of Europe have done.
-- Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevil, without one right angle in any apartment; and this defect arises from the contempt they bear to practical geometry, which they de-spise as vulgar and mechanic; those instructions they give being too refined for the intellects of their workmen, which occasions perpetual mistakes.
-- Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive 339disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, I am afraid I am very little indeed,' returned the Child of the Marshalsea; and so began to sob over that unfortunate defect of hers, which came so often in her way.
-- 'It may be a defect in my mental vision, Blandois,' said he, 'but may I die if I see what you have to do with this.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And YOUR defect is to hate everybody.'
-- I fancy, Lizzy, that obstinacy is the real defect of his character, after all.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the first I had seen, which, it seems, was only my misfortune, not any defect of the place, or scarcity; for had I happened to be on the other side of the island, I might have had hundreds of them every day, as I found afterwards; but perhaps had paid dear enough for them.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But are you really so attached to this place as to see no defect in it?"
-- Do not think yourself excused by any weakness, any natural defect of understanding on her side, in the wanton cruelty so evident on yours.
-- "I will not ask your opinion of it as a composition," said Edward. "For worlds would not I have had a letter of hers seen by YOU in former days. In a sister it is bad enough, but in a wife! how I have blushed over the pages of her writing! and I believe I may say that since the first half year of our foolish business this is the only letter I ever received from her, of which the substance made me any amends for the defect of the style."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, she is," she returned, cheerfully, a little suggestion of possible defect in herself awakening in her mind.
-- She could not have framed thoughts which would have expressed his defect or made clear the difference between them, but she felt it.
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