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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An intermittent jet of scarlet blood flowed from it; the patient's paleness and weakness showed that he was seriously injured.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'At moments I was in a state of dreadful weakness and misery, so that Colia was greatly disturbed when he left me.
-- I love that man, sir; I may have told you so before; it is a weakness of mine.
-- But the general's struggles with his own weakness never lasted very long.
-- I don't know my age exactly, but it has always been a weakness of mine to make it out less than it really is.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the first day we said little to one another, and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon, or watched, with eyes that grew larger and more haggard every day, the misery and weakness gaining upon our companions.
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：
-- It was evident that his momentary weakness had vanished with the explanation of a mystery which his own experience had not served to fathom; and though he now felt all the realities of their actual condition, that he was prepared to meet them with the energy of his hardy nature.
-- The mel-ody, which no weakness could destroy, gradually wrought its sweet influence on the senses of those who heard it.
-- While, however, these manifestations of weakness were exhibited by the young and vain of the party, the more ex- perienced warriors continued their search throughout both caverns, with an activity that denoted they were far from being satisfied with those fruits of their conquest which had already been brought to light.
-- This sort of contempt for eminences, or rather dread of the labor of ascending them, might have been termed the besetting weakness of the warfare of the period.
-- Then shaking off a train of reflec-tions that he accounted a weakness in such a moment of triumph, he retraced his steps toward his tent, giving the order as he passed to make the signal that should arouse the army from its slumbers.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She held their weakness for lions in good-humoured contempt, but played to them her part of the distinguished woman of letters with decorum.
-- She washed his limbs; they were covered with thick hair; and when she dried his hands, even in his weakness they were strong and sinewy.
-- The weakness of your body communicated itself to your soul.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I lost her when I was a little older than you are, and for years had to struggle on alone, for I was too proud to confess my weakness to anyone else.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A weakness on his part, which affords the narrative an opportunity of relieving the reader from suspense, in behalf of the two young pupils of the Merry Old Gentleman; and of recording-- That when the Dodger, and his accomplished friend Master Bates, joined in the hue-and-cry which was raised at Oliver's heels, in consequence of their executing an illegal conveyance of Mr. Brownlow's personal property, as has been already described, they were actuated by a very laudable and becoming regard for themselves; and forasmuch as the freedom of the subject and the liberty of the individual are among the first and proudest boasts of a true-hearted Englishman, so, I need hardly beg the reader to observe, that this action should tend to exalt them in the opinion of all public and patriotic men, in almost as great a degree as this strong proof of their anxiety for their own preservation and safety goes to corroborate and confirm the little code of laws which certain profound and sound-judging philosophers have laid down as the main-springs of all Nature's deeds and actions: the said philosophers very wisely reducing the good lady's proceedings to matters of maxim and theory: and, by a very neat and pretty compliment to her exalted wisdom and understanding, putting entirely out of sight any considerations of heart, or generous impulse and feeling.
-- One afternoon, the Dodger and Master Bates being engaged out that evening, the first-named young gentleman took it into his head to evince some anxiety regarding the decoration of his person (to do him justice, this was by no means an habitual weakness with him); and, with this end and aim, he condescendingly commanded Oliver to assist him in his toilet, straightway.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed.
-- She knew not how to support herself, and from actual weakness sat down and cried for half-an-hour.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the 4th of July to the 14th I was chiefly employed in walking about with my gun in my hand, a little and a little at a time, as a man that was gathering up his strength after a fit of sickness; for it is hardly to be imagined how low I was, and to what weakness I was reduced.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the violence of her passions, the weakness of her understanding I do not mean, however, to defend myself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was sufficient that there was tenderness in her eye, weakness in her manner, good nature and hope in her thoughts.
-- She was in no mood, after her failure of the day before, to hasten forth upon her work-seeking errand, and yet she rebuked herself for what she considered her weakness the day before.
-- Hunger and weakness had made a coward of him.
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