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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Robert proved to be a bold rider, and completely reassured Glenarvan as to his ability to keep his seat.
-- They managed their immense property with rare ability and uncommon energy.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have some recollection, Wilson, that you had among your boys a lad named Cart-wright, who showed some ability during the investigation.'
-- His reason for attempting this special line of business was that he had struck up an acquaintance with a consumptive tu-tor upon the voyage home, and that he had used this man's ability to make the undertaking a success.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have you any talents, or ability in any direction that is, any that would bring in money and bread?
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：
-- In other words, while he had implicit faith in the ability of Balaam's ass to speak, he was somewhat skepti-cal on the subject of a bear's singing; and yet he had been assured of the latter, on the testimony of his own exquisite organs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Did he say, for instance,' added Brass, in a kind of comfortable, cozy tone 'I don't assert that he did say so, mind; I only ask you, to refresh your memory did he say, for instance, that he was a stranger in London that it was not his humour or within his ability to give any references that he felt we had a right to require them and that, in case anything should happen to him, at any time, he particularly desired that whatever property he had upon the premises should be considered mine, as some slight recompense for the trouble and annoyance I should sustain and were you, in short,' added Brass, still more comfortably and cozily than before, 'were you induced to accept him on my behalf, as a tenant, upon those conditions?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the reading of the indictment was finished, the justiciary, having consulted with his associates, turned to Kartinkin with an expression on his face which plainly betokened confidence in his ability to bring forth all the truth.
-- She was raised in an intelligent, noble family, and could make her living by honest toil, but she leaves them, yields to her passions, and displays an intelligence, and especially, as you have heard here, gentlemen of the jury, an ability to exert influence on people by that mysterious, lately discovered by science, especially by the school of Charcot, power known by the name of hypnotic suggestion.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the promotion of this object she was zealously active, as far as her ability reached; and missed no opportunity of projecting weddings among all the young people of her acquaintance.
-- And as she could now have nothing more painful to hear on the subject than had already been told, she did not mistrust her own ability of going through a repetition of particulars with composure.
-- The dinner was a grand one, the servants were numerous, and every thing bespoke the Mistress's inclination for show, and the Master's ability to support it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Drouet had ability in this line himself when the game was worth the candle, but he was too much the egotist to reach the polish which Hurstwood possessed.
-- He had the ability to get off at a distance and view himself objectively--of seeing what he wanted to see in the things which made up his existence.
-- They had regard for the ability which could amass a small fortune, own a nice home, keep a barouche or carriage, perhaps, wear fine clothes, and maintain a good mercantile position.
-- The fact that such ability should reveal itself in her, that they should see it set forth under such effective circumstances, framed almost in massy gold and shone upon by the appropriate lights of sentiment and personality, heightened her charm for them.
-- All day, the bar being closed, he brooded alone, shut out from home, from the excitement of his resort, from Carrie, and without the ability to alter his condition one iota.
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