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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A third, who in the general confusion could secure no other listener, fastened herself upon a young woman still unmarried who happened to be amongst them, and conjured her, as she valued her own peace of mind and happiness to profit by this solemn occasion, to take example from the weakness of Mrs Quilp, and from that time forth to direct her whole thoughts to taming and subduing the rebellious spirit of man.
-- For, it was not the monotonous days unchequered by variety and uncheered by pleasant companionship, it was not the dark dreary evenings or the long solitary nights, it was not the absence of every slight and easy pleasure for which young hearts beat high, or the knowing nothing of childhood but its weakness and its easily wounded spirit, that had wrung such tears from Nell.
-- And now that five-and-fifty years were gone, she spoke of the dead man as if he had been her son or grandson, with a kind of pity for his youth, growing out of her own old age, and an exalting of his strength and manly beauty as compared with her own weakness and decay; and yet she spoke about him as her husband too, and thinking of herself in connexion with him, as she used to be and not as she was now, talked of their meeting in another world, as if he were dead but yesterday, and she, separated from her former self, were thinking of the happiness of that comely girl who seemed to have died with him.
-- The genuine and only Jarley exposed to public scorn, jeered by children, and flouted by beadles!The delight of the Nobility and Gentry shorn of a bonnet which a Lady Mayoress might have sighed to wear, and arrayed in a white sheet as a spectacle of mortification and humility!And Miss Monflathers, the audacious creature who presumed, even in the dimmest and remotest distance of her imagination, to conjure up the degrading picture, 'I am a'most inclined,' said Mrs Jarley, bursting with the fulness of her anger and the weakness of her means of revenge, 'to turn atheist when I think of it!'
-- CHAPTER 43Her momentary weakness past, the child again summoned the resolution which had until now sustained her, and, endeavouring to keep steadily in her view the one idea that they were flying from disgrace and crime, and that her grandfather's preservation must depend solely on her firmness, unaided by one word of advice or any helping hand, urged him onward and looked back no more.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff did not yet realize the significance of his present position, and the scarcely suppressed sob and the tears that welled up in his eyes he ascribed to the weakness of his nerves.
-- It was painful to him to grieve her, but he knew that the slightest weakness would ruin him, i. e., bind him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know I have a certain weakness for mechanism, and I was inclined to linger among these; the more so as for the most part they had the interest of puzzles, and I could make only the vaguest guesses at what they were for.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His words, spirited as they were in meaning, contrasted sadly with the weakness of the voice in which they were uttered.
-- He, on his part, had pretty well fought his weakness down.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A weakness ran over his body, a terrible relaxing, a thaw, a decay of strength.
-- A fearful weakness possessed him, his joints were turned to water.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He encouraged him to regard Hindley as a reprobate; and, night after night, he regularly grumbled out a long string of tales against Heathcliff and Catherine: always minding to flatter Earnshaw's weakness by heaping the heaviest blame on the latter.
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