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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba would probably have terminated the conversation there and then by flatly forbidding the subject, had not her conscious weakness of position allured her to palter and argue in endeavours to better it.
-- A woman was out of the question in such an occupation at this hour, and the comer could be no less than a thief, who might probably have known the weakness of the household on this particular night, and have chosen it on that account for his daring attempt.
-- In making this statement Boldwood's voice revealed only too clearly a consciousness of the weakness of his position, his aims, and his method.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- God raises my weakness and gives me courage to endure the worst.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not bear to see a slave poutingunder a reprimand, ho matter how well deserved, or hear a kitten mewing or a child crying; but he had a horror ofhaving this weakness discovered.
-- She put her hand onhis arm and felt that it was trembling with weariness but there was no weakness in his face.
-- She was too exhausted and weak from fright to tolerate weakness in anyone else.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's all very true!It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it.
-- as if it were a well-known fact that I contemplated murdering a near relation, provided I could only induce one to have the weakness to become my benefactor.
-- He had spoken so sensibly and feelingly of my weakness that I wanted to know something about his strength.
-- Wemmick tightened his post-office and shook his head, as if his opinion were dead against any fatal weakness of that sort.
-- I have never shown any weakness that I can charge myself with."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had as I before observed, one private pocket, which es-caped their search, wherein there was a pair of spectacles (which I sometimes use for the weakness of mine eyes,) a pocket perspective, and some other little conveniences; which, being of no consequence to the emperor, I did not think myself bound in honour to discover, and I appre-hended they might be lost or spoiled if I ventured them out of my possession.
-- And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the sec-ond: for a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his closet, but not to vend them about for cordials.'
-- The book treats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little es-teem, except among the women and the vulgar.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was profoundly touched by these words, being by no means accustomed to signs of womanly weakness in the Professor.
-- My weakness was so great I could do nothing to save myself.
-- "Well, only let a chance of safety present itself--only allow that a moment of action be necessary--where shall we find the means of action if we allow ourselves to be reduced to physical weakness by inanition?"
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：
-- A sense of isolation intensified the family tie, a sense of the weakness of their position, a sense of defencelessness, in spite of, or because of, the title and the land.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was round and fresh and dimpled and spoilt, and there was in Pet an air of timidity and dependence which was the best weakness in the world, and gave her the only crowning charm a girl so pretty and pleasant could have been without.
-- 'Or p'raps,' said the turnkey, offering his suggestions from the the top of his well-worn wooden stool, as he might have offered them to a child for whose weakness he felt a compassion, 'p'raps she'll get her brother, or her sister, to come along with her.'
-- And this saved him still from the whimpering weakness and cruel selfishness of holding that because such a happiness or such a virtue had not come into his little path, or worked well for him, therefore it was not in the great scheme, but was reducible, when found in appearance, to the basest elements.
-- 'Oh!You have so many things to think about,' returned Mr Meagles, clapping him on the shoulder, as if his weakness must not be left to itself on any account.
-- 'Suppose that a man,' so his thoughts ran, 'who had been of age some twenty years or so; who was a diffident man, from the circumstances of his youth; who was rather a grave man, from the tenor of his life; who knew himself to be deficient in many little engaging qualities which he admired in others, from having been long in a distant region, with nothing softening near him; who had no kind sisters to present to her; who had no congenial home to make her known in; who was a stranger in the land; who had not a fortune to compensate, in any measure, for these defects; who had nothing in his favour but his honest love and his general wish to do right suppose such a man were to come to this house, and were to yield to the captivation of this charming girl, and were to persuade himself that he could hope to win her; what a weakness it would be!'
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