ability是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 能力； 本领； 才能， 才干； 专门技能， 天资，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means, that it was difficult, on first coming in, to see anything; and long habit alone could have slowly formed in any one, the ability to do any work requiring nicety in such obscurity.
-- 130 A tale of two cities Although the Doctor's daughter had known nothing of the country of her birth, she appeared to have innately derived from it that ability to make much of little means, which is one of its most useful and most agreeable char-acteristics.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But since he did not care either way, he immediately asked Stepan Arkadyevitch, as though it were his duty, to go down to the country and to arrange everything there to the best of his ability with the taste of which he had so much.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Tapestry School claims that luxurious chairs for waiting patients, handsome hand-painted pictures, a bookcase jammed with the world's best literature in expensively bound sets, together with cut-glass vases and potted palms, produce an impression of that opulence which can come only from sheer ability and knowledge.
-- You have the ability of Pfaff!"
-- Chapter 24 It cannot be said that Martin showed any large ability for organization, but under him the Department of Public Health changed completely.
-- He insisted that no one could expect more than, by stubbornness or luck, to have the kind of work he enjoyed and an ability to become better acquainted with the facts of that work than the average job-holder.
-- Holabird had, five years before, done one bit of research which had taken his name into scientific journals throughout the world: he had studied the effect of the extirpation of the anterior lobes of a dog's brain on its ability to find its way through the laboratory.
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：
-- Though Katerina Ivanovna tried to appear to be disdain-fully unaware of it, she raised her voice and began at once speaking with conviction of Sonia's undoubted ability to assist her, of 'her gentleness, patience, devotion, generosity and good education,' tapping Sonia on the cheek and kiss-ing her warmly twice.
-- The lodgers talked incoherently, some commented to the best of their ability on what had happened, others quarrelled and swore at one another, while others struck up a song芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My family are ofopinion, that, with a little interest, something might be done for aman of his ability in the Custom House.
-- 'My dear,' said Mr. Micawber; 'Copperfield,' for sohe had been accustomed to call me of late, 'has a heart to feel forthe distresses of his fellow-creatures when they are behind a cloud,and a head to plan, and a hand to- in short, a general ability todispose of such available property as could be made away with.'
-- I have never believed it possible thatany natural or improved ability can claim immunity from thecompanionship of the steady, plain, hard-working qualities, andhope to gain its end.
-- 'Without more directly referring to any latent ability that maypossibly exist on my part, of wielding the thunderbolt, or directingthe devouring and avenging flame in any quarter, I may bepermitted to observe, in passing, that my brightest visions are forever dispelledthat my peace is shattered and my power ofenjoyment destroyedthat my heart is no longer in the right place- 648and that I no more walk erect before my fellow-man.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I doubted at first whether I should attempt the cre-ation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first suc-cess to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complete and wonderful as man.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His clearhand, his accurate figures and his shrewd ability in bargaining won their respect, where a knowledge of literature and afine appreciation of music, had young Gerald possessed them, would have moved them to snorts of contempt.
-- His wife must be a lady and a ladyof blood, with as many airs and graces as Mrs. Wilkes and the ability to manage Tara as well as Mrs. Wilkes orderedher own domain.
-- Had he been less obviously masculine, his ability to recall details of dresses, bonnets and coiffures would havebeen put down as the rankest effeminacy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why I fail in my ability to finish it, I cannot explain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All our industry and ability were devoted to packing every object in the most advantageous manner--the instruments on one side, the arms on the other, the tools here and the provisions there.
-- The very next evening, thanks to the industry and ability of Hans, the raft was finished.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, he had the appearance of a perfect ability to go on all night; or, if occasion were, all next day and all next night; whereas Mr Blandois soon grew indistinctly conscious of swaggering too fiercely and boastfully.
-- Of these, the first may have been that her son had never signified the smallest intention to ask her consent, or any mistrust of his ability to dispense with it; the second, that the pension bestowed upon her by a grateful country (and a Barnacle) would be freed from any little filial inroads, when her Henry should be married to the darling only child of a man in very easy circumstances; the third, that Henry's debts must clearly be paid down upon the altar-railing by his father-in-law.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Likewise a fish is technically fast when it bears a waif, or any other recognised symbol of possession; so long as the party waifing it plainly evince their ability at any time to take it alongside, as well as their intention so to do.
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