error是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 错误， 过失，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：
-- No one, however, would have thought of reproaching him for an error so pardonable.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That is, of course, if you really are a relative of Mrs. Epanchin's, and have not made a little error through well, absence of mind, which is very common to human beings; or, say through a too luxuriant fancy?'
-- The enor-mous sums spent upon me were not really mine; they came to me by an error of blind Fortune, when they ought to have gone to P 's son.
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 instant their mistake was rectified, the whole party retraced the error with the utmost diligence.
-- 'The marquis of Montcalm can only settle that error with his God,' said the young man solemnly.
-- It is more than probable that, in the disordered state of his thoughts, he would soon have fallen into some suspicious, if not fatal, error had not his incipient attempts been interrupted by a fierce growl from the quadruped.
-- But when they spoke of the future prospects of Cora and Uncas, he shook his head, like one who knew the error of their simple creed, and resuming his reclining attitude, he maintained it until the ceremony, if that might be called a ceremony, in which feeling was so deeply imbued, was finished.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cyrus Harding concluded, therefore, that Lincoln Island was situated on the thirty-seventh degree of the southern latitude, or taking into consideration through the imperfection of the performance, an error of five degrees, that it must be situated between the thirty-fifth and the fortieth parallel.
-- The possible fault which he attributed to errors in the observation was, it may be seen, of five degrees on both sides, which, at sixty miles to a degree, would give an error of three hundred miles in latitude and longitude for the exact position.
-- But this error would not influence the determination which it was necessary to take.
-- His first observation had given him the situation of Lincoln Island, In west longitude: from 150脗掳 to 155脗掳; In south latitude: from 30脗掳 to 35脗掳 The second gave exactly: In longitude: 150脗掳 30' In south latitude: 34脗掳 57' So then, notwithstanding the imperfection of his apparatus, Cyrus Harding had operated with so much skill that his error did not exceed five degrees.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very likely, sir; but the error will not be a hundred yards and we do not want more.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We exchanged little conversation, and he halted at the entrance of Thrushcross Park, saying, I could make no error there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an error in your calculations.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her amazed look and quick answer caused Laurie to re-pair his error as fast as possible.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, it was plainly a labor of love for Captain Sleet to describe, as he does, all the little detailed conveniences of his crow's-nest; but though he so enlarges upon many of these, and though he treats us to a very scientific account of his experiments in this crow's-nest, with a small compass he kept there for the purpose of counteracting the errors resulting from what is called the "local attraction" of all binnacle magnets; an error ascribable to the horizontal vicinity of the iron in the ship's planks, and in the Glacier's case, perhaps, to there having been so many broken-down blacksmiths among her crew; I say, that though the Captain is very discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his learned "binnacle deviations," "azimuth compass observations," and "approximate errors," he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was not so much immersed in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail being attracted occasionally towards that well replenished little case-bottle, so nicely tucked in on one side of his crow's nest, within easy reach of his hand.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a stronger voice she soon added, 'I have this com-fort immediately, that it has not been more than an error of fancy on my side, and that it has done no harm to anyone but myself.'
-- If it be so, if I have been misled by such error to inflict pain on her, your resentment has not been unreasonable.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then left the room; and Elinor dared not follow her to say more, for bound as she was by her promise of secrecy to Lucy, she could give no information that would convince Marianne; and painful as the consequences of her still continuing in an error might be, she was obliged to submit to it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once, when she was fumbling at the little clamp, having made a slight error in setting in the leather, a great hand appeared before her eyes and fastened the clamp for her.
-- he asked, mildly conscious of error on his part, but certain that he was wronged.
-- Chapter XLII A TOUCH OF SPRING--THE EMPTY SHELL Those who look upon Hurstwood's Brooklyn venture as an error of judgment will none the less realise the negative influence on him of the fact that he had tried and failed.
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