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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He shows decided bacchanalian predilections at one time, and at another is tearful and sensitive, but at any moment he is liable to paroxysms of such rage that I assure you, prince, I am quite alarmed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You're rather liable to that sort of thing."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The females were less numerous than the males, and liable to much furtive persecution in spite of the monogamy the Law enjoined.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most positive mandate from him who seemed the acknowledged leader, was liable to be violated at each moment by any rash hand that might choose to sacrifice a victim to the manes of some dead friend or relative.
-- They compared her to flakes of snow; as pure, as white, as brilliant, and as liable to melt in the fierce heats of summer, or congeal in the frosts of winter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shunning the tombs, it crept about the mounds, beneath which slept poor humble men: twining for them the first wreaths they had ever won, but wreaths less liable to wither and far more lasting in their kind, than some which were graven deep in stone and marble, and told in pompous terms of virtues meekly hidden for many a year, and only revealed at last to executors and mourning legatees.
-- Now, you know the pains and penalties you are liable to, and so I need not dilate upon them, but I have a proposal to make to you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, I say we are all liable to mistakes and I should feel sensible of your delicacy, and grateful for it, if you would spare me these references to Harthouse.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At a certain period, the earth consisted only of an elastic crust, liable to alternative upward and downward movements in virtue of the law of attraction.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The woman has gone away: we don't know where to: but she is liable to arrest if she shows her face in Tevershall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am such a waif and stray everywhere, that I am liable to be drifted where any current may set.'
-- (I really don't like the notion of his going wandering at large, he is so extremely liable to be run over.)'
-- 'Are so liable to be influenced by many considerations, which, almost without our knowing it, are unfair, that it is necessary to keep a guard upon them.
-- Throughout these singular freedoms on the part of Mr Blandois, which involved a general alteration in his demeanour, making it much coarser and rougher, much more violent and audacious than before, Mr Flintwinch, whose leathern face was not liable to many changes, preserved its immobility intact.
-- The best of us are so liable to mistakes, that even you, Mrs General, have fallen into a little error.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad, and I've no idea of sleeping with a madman; and you, sir, you I mean, landlord, you, sir, by trying to induce me to do so knowingly, would thereby render yourself liable to a criminal prosecution."
-- Be it said, however, that the Sperm Whale is far less liable to this accident than any other species.
-- But as this conductor must descend to considerable depth, that its end may avoid all contact with the hull; and as moreover, if kept constantly towing there, it would be liable to many mishaps, besides interfering not a little with some of the rigging, and more or less impeding the vessel's way in the water; because of all this, the lower parts of a ship's lightning-rods are not always overboard; but are generally made in long slender links, so as to be the more readily hauled up into the chains outside, or thrown down into the sea, as occasion may require.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The suspicious circumstances, however, resolving themselves, on investigation, into the one fact, that they had been discovered sleeping under a haystack; which, although a great crime, is only punishable by imprisonment, and is, in the merciful eye of the English law, and its comprehensive love of all the King's subjects, held to be no satisfactory proof, in the absence of all other evidence, that the sleeper, or sleepers, have committed burglary accompanied with violence, and have therefore rendered themselves liable to the punishment of death; Messrs. Blathers and Duff came back again, as wise as they went.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If therefore she actually persists in re-jecting my suit, perhaps it were better not to force her into accepting me, because if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity.'
-- But we are all liable to error.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The real state of things between Willoughby and her sister was so little known to herself, that in endeavouring to explain it, she might be as liable to say too much as too little.
-- Surely, after doing so, she cannot be imagined liable to any impression of sorrow or of joy on his account she cannot be interested in any thing that befalls him. She would not be so weak as to throw away the comfort of a child, and yet retain the anxiety of a parent!"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Think we're liable to have much trouble?"
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