liability是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 责任， 义务； (pl. ) 债务，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He quite realises my idea of King Lear, as he appeared when in possession of his kingdom, Mr Richard the same good humour, the same white hair and partial baldness, the same liability to be imposed upon.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For me the district institutions simply mean the liability to pay fourpence halfpenny for every three acres, to drive into the town, sleep with bugs, and listen to all sorts of idiocy and loathsomeness, and self-interest offers me no inducement."
-- It was the consciousness of a new sphere of liability to pain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were accidents to machinery, the liability of trains to run off the line, collisions, bad weather, the blocking up by snow were not all these against Phileas Fogg?
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