liable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有…倾向的; 可能遭受…的; 有责任的, 有义务的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am mortal,' Scrooge remonstrated, 'and liable to fall.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Few coaches were abroad, for riders in coaches were liable to be suspected, and gentility hid its head in red night-caps, and put on heavy shoes, and trudged.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To all these questions there were answers admirably stated, and answers admitting no shade of doubt, since they were not a product of human thought, always liable to error, but were all the product of official activity.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fancy I really am: I tell you these things for nothing and don't even expect a reward for it, he-he!Well, to proceed, wit in my opinion is a splendid thing, it is, so to say, an adorn-ment of nature and a consolation of life, and what tricks it can play!So that it sometimes is hard for a poor examining lawyer to know where he is, especially when he's liable to be carried away by his own fancy, too, for you know he is a man after all!But the poor fellow is saved by the criminal's temperament, worse luck for him!But young people carried away by their own wit don't think of that 'when they over-step all obstacles,' as you wittily and cleverly expressed it yesterday.
-- Even the poorest and most broken-spirited people are sometimes liable to these paroxysms of pride and vanity which take the form of an irresistible nervous craving.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They presented theircompliments to Mr. Copperfield, and informed him that they hadgiven his letter their best consideration, 'with a view to thehappiness of both parties'- which I thought rather an alarmingexpression, not only because of the use they had made of it inrelation to the family difference before-mentioned, but because Ihad (and have all my life) observed that conventional phrases are asort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety ofshapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.
-- 'It's a complaint we are all liable to, Little One, as we get on in life,'said my aunt, cheerfully; 'I don't feel more free from it than I usedto be, I assure you.'
-- Betwixt you and me, Mas'r Davy- and you,ma'am- wen Mrs. Gummidge takes to wimicking,'- our old countyword for crying,- 'she's liable to be considered to be, by them asdidn't know the old 'un, peevish-like.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma was just describ-ing the nature of her friend's complaint; 'a throat very much inflamed, with a great deal of heat about her, a quick, low pulse, &c. and she was sorry to find from Mrs. Goddard that Harriet was liable to very bad sore-throats, and had of-ten alarmed her with them.'
-- Vanity, extravagance, love of change, restlessness of temper, which must be doing something, good or bad; heedlessness as to the pleasure of his father and Mrs. Weston, indifferent as to how his conduct might appear in general; he became liable to all these charges.
-- And as I looked at her, though I never saw her appear to more advan-tage, it struck me that she was heated, and would therefore be particularly liable to take cold.
-- Miss Fairfax, you must not run such risks. Liable as you have been to severe colds, in-deed you ought to be particularly careful, especially at this time of year.
-- Churchill's state, however, as many were ready to remind her, was liable to such sudden variation as might disappoint her nephew in the most reasonable depen-dence and Mrs. Weston was at last persuaded to believe, 440 Emmaor to say, that it must be by some attack of Mrs. Churchill that he was prevented coming. Emma looked at Harriet while the point was under consideration; she behaved very well, and betrayed no emotion.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, it was not at all unlikely that his wife would fail at her farming, if she had not already done so; and he would then become liable for her maintenance: and what a life such a future of poverty with her would be, the spectre of Fanny constantly between them, harrowing his temper and embittering her words!Thus, for reasons touching on distaste, regret, and shame commingled, he put off his return from day to day, and would have decided to put it off altogether if he could have found anywhere else the ready-made establishment which existed for him there.
-- "Yet I don't see that, because a man appears to be drowned and was not, he should be liable for anything.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I afterwards hired a mule, as the more sure-footed and least liable to receive injury on these rugged roads.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, but she's mighty liable to talk embarrassing in front of Father and the girls when we get home tonight," saidStuart gloomily.
-- The trains arecrowded and uncertain and the passengers are liable to be put off in the woods at any time, if the trains are needed forthe wounded or troops and supplies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That swindling Pumblechook, exalted into the beneficent contriver of the whole occasion, actually took the top of the table; and, when he addressed them on the subject of my being bound, and had fiendishly congratulated them on my being liable to imprisonment if I played at cards, drank strong liquors, kept late hours or bad company, or indulged in other vagaries which the form of my indentures appeared to contemplate as next to inevitable, he placed me standing on a chair beside him to illustrate his remarks.
-- But, sharpest and deepest pain of all,--it was for the convict, guilty of I knew not what crimes, and liable to be taken out of those rooms where I sat thinking, and hanged at the Old Bailey door, that I had deserted Joe.
-- I cautioned him that I must hear no more of that; that he was not at all likely to obtain a pardon; that he was expatriated for the term of his natural life; and that his presenting himself in this country would be an act of felony, rendering him liable to the extreme penalty of the law.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ''Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his imperial majesty Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, that, whoever shall make water within the precincts of the royal palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwith-standing, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty's most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apart-ment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc.
-- He argued, 'that the very laws of nature absolutely required we should have been made, in the beginning of a size more large and robust; not so liable to destruction from every lit-tle accident, of a tile falling from a house, or a stone cast from the hand of a boy, or being drowned in a little brook.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Bounderby,' urged Mr. Gradgrind, 'we are all liable to mistakes ''I thought you couldn't make 'em,' interrupted Bounderby.
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