weakness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 虚弱， 软弱； 弱点，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：
-- It's a weakness of mine, and that's the way I ruin myself,' said old Joe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and therefore Mr. Attorney-General had made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing, save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often disfiguring such cases, and of which the State Trials of this country were full.
-- 'Yes!But it is your weakness that you sometimes need to see your victim and your opportunity, to sustain you.
-- What weakness is this, my dear!Let me go to the door.'
-- It was obviously the weakness of the position.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But with me, it's another thing; I see through his ideas, and I know where its weakness lies."
-- "You know his weakness for balls, and he never misses a single court ball.
-- Chapter 13 None but those who were most intimate with Alexey Alexandrovitch knew that, while on the surface the coldest and most reasonable of men, he had one weakness quite opposed to the general trend of his character.
-- "If he would fight, would stand up for his honor, I could act, could express my feelings; but this weakness or baseness....
-- Unconsciously yielding to the weakness of Anna--who had surrendered herself up to him utterly, and simply looked to him to decide her fate, ready to submit to anything--he had long ceased to think that their tie might end as he had thought then.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet such is the weakness of genus homo that sometimes, when I ought to be attending to practical details, I become obsessed by some probably absurd pathological concept, and so ridiculous am I that I can't wait to hasten down the hall to my regular laboratory--I must always have a bench at hand and an experiment going on.
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：
-- He longed for a drink of cold beer, and attributed his sudden weakness to the want of food.
-- Evidently Marmeladov was a familiar figure here, and he had most 22 Crime and Punishment likely acquired his weakness for high-flown speeches from the habit of frequently entering into conversation with strangers of all sorts in the tavern.
-- This time it was through my own fault I lost it: for my weakness had come out芒聙娄.
-- In spite of his weakness he was not conscious of fatigue.
-- 'So my reason has not quite deserted me, so I still have some sense and memory, since I guessed it of myself,' he thought triumphantly, with a deep sigh of relief; 'it's simply the weakness of fever, a moment's delirium,' and he tore the whole lining out of the left pocket of his trousers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I labour under the same kind of astonishment to this day,having invariably observed that of all human weaknesses, the oneto which our common nature is the least disposed to confess (Icannot imagine why) is the weakness of having gone to sleep in acoach.
-- I still believe him, invirtue of this carriage, his animal spirits, his delightful voice, hishandsome face and figure, and, for aught I know, of some inbornpower of attraction besides (which I think a few people possess), tohave carried a spell with him to which it was a natural weakness toyield, and which not many persons could withstand.
-- It was on this very first day that I had the misfortune to throw her,though she was not subject to such weakness in general, into a stateof violent consternation.
-- She was alovely baby- I know that; I knew it years before you ever saw her-and through the best part of her weakness you gave her thewounds she died of.
-- I sawher features and her manner slowly change; I saw her look at himwith growing admiration; I saw her try, more and more faintly, butalways angrily, as if she condemned a weakness in herself, to resistthe captivating power that he possessed; and finally, I saw hersharp glance soften, and her smile become quite gentle, and Iceased to be afraid of her as I had really been all day, and we all satabout the fire, talking and laughing together, with as little reserveas if we had been children.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He recommended it for all the children, but particularly for the weakness in little Bella's throat, both sea air and bathing.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
-- Weakness is doubly weak by being new.
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