enable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 使能够， 使成为可能； 授予权利或方法，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray discuss it with me; pray enable me to see it a little more clearly, and teach me how to be a little more useful.'
-- It would not enable Her to go to see him.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she tucked up her frock, to enable her to run quicker; but the Narcissus gave her a knock on the leg, just as she was going to jump over it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 29 The carrying out of Levin's plan presented many difficulties; but he struggled on, doing his utmost, and attained a result which, though not what he desired, was enough to enable him, without self-deception, to believe that the attempt was worth the trouble.
-- The cruelty with which he shattered the world she had built up for herself so laboriously to enable her to endure her hard life, the injustice with which he had accused her of affectation, of artificiality, aroused her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The station at Allahabad was reached about ten o'clock, and, the interrupted line of railway being resumed, would enable them to reach Calcutta in less than twenty-four hours.
-- All the detective's hopes and wishes were now centred on Hong Kong; for the steamer's stay at Singapore would be too brief to enable him to take any steps there.
-- Such was the road to be traversed in seven days, which would enable Phileas Fogg at least, so he hoped to take the Atlantic steamer at New York on the 11th for Liverpool.
-- The train did not proceed rapidly; counting the stoppages, it did not run more than twenty miles an hour, which was a sufficient speed, however, to enable it to reach Omaha within its designated time.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mart, my son," he roared, "do you realize that in this, what some might call a sordid task, we are learning things that will enable us to heal the bodies and comfort the souls of countless lost unhappy folks?"
-- But no matter what they thought, they all ground at learning the lists of names which enable a man to crawl through examinations and become an Educated Person, with a market value of five dollars an hour.
-- They just want to get the knowledge that'll enable them to cash in.
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：
-- That was sufficient to enable me to ascertain that she is in a position preternatural, if one may so express it.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Butperhaps my brother's penetration may enable him to have someinsight into his character.
-- Our residence at Canterbury, andour local connection, will, no doubt, enable him to take advantageof any vacancy that may arise in the cathedral corps.'
-- Perseverance and strength of character will enable usto bear much worse things.'
-- His natural manner and agreeable simplicity made it transparentthat he said this to put us in good heart, and to enable Agnes tohear her father mentioned with greater confidence; but it was notthe less pleasant for that.
-- My mind is constantly running on him, in his solitude; to putthis letter of her writing in his hand at this time, and to enable youto tell her, in the moment of parting, that he has got it, will be akindness to both of them.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To you, he will talk of farming; to me, of drawing or music; and so on to every body, having that general information on all subjects which will enable him to follow the lead, or take the lead, just as propriety may require, and to speak extremely well on each; that is my idea of him.'
-- The bitter feelings occasioned by this speech, the many bitter feelings, made the utmost exertion necessary on Em-ma's side, to enable her to say on reply, 'Harriet, I will only venture to declare, that Mr. Knight-ley is the last man in the world, who would intentionally give any woman the idea of his feeling for her more than he really does.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fanny shall have fifty to enable her to prepare for the wedding, when you have told me where she is living, and she shall have five hundred paid down on her wedding-day."
-- "Why, by settling the five hundred on Bathsheba instead of Fanny, to enable you to marry at once.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into contin-ual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.
-- I improved, how-ever, sensibly in this science, but not sufficiently to follow up any kind of conversation, although I applied my whole mind to the endeavour, for I easily perceived that, although I eagerly longed to discover myself to the cottagers, I ought not to make the attempt until I had first become master of their language, which knowledge might enable me to make 132 Frankensteinthem overlook the deformity of my figure, for with this also the contrast perpetually presented to my eyes had made me acquainted.
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