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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What can I say that will enable you to understand the depth of my sorrow?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What share of knowledge these lords had in the laws of their country, and how they came by it, so as to enable them to decide the properties of their fellow-sub-jects in the last resort?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, you'd have to go to Doctors' Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act of Parliament to enable you to marry again, and it would cost you (if it was a case of very plain sailing), I suppose from a thousand to fifteen hundred pound,' said Mr. Bounderby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A quarter of an hour later Hans paused to enable us to look back.
-- A rope fastened above, near the surface, would certainly support our weight and enable us to reach the bottom, but how, when we had arrived at its utmost depth, were we to loosen it above?
-- May heaven give us strength to enable us once more to revisit the light of day.
-- This beneficent spring after having saved us from thirst during so many days would now enable me to regain the right road.
-- Who could enable me to find my road--and regain my companions?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To enable this girl to earn her few weekly shillings, it was necessary for the Child of the Marshalsea to go through an elaborate form with the Father.
-- Thinking of her, and of the possibility of her father's release from prison by the unbarring hand of death the only change of circumstance he could foresee that might enable him to be such a friend to her as he wished to be, by altering her whole manner of life, smoothing her rough road, and giving her a home he regarded her, in that perspective, as his adopted daughter, his poor child of the Marshalsea hushed to rest.
-- To enable him to do which, without bias and with perfect freedom, I shall go out of town for a week."
-- Nevertheless, he did render the purport of his letter sufficiently clear, to enable Mr Merdle to make a decent pretence of having learnt it from that source.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
-- Though at the time I but ill comprehended not a few of his words, yet subsequent disclosures, when I had become more familiar with his broken phraseology, now enable me to present the whole story such as it may prove in the mere skeleton I give.
-- No possible endeavor then could enable her commander to make the great passage southwards, double Cape Horn, and then running down sixty degrees of latitude arrive in the equatorial Pacific in time to cruise there.
-- Perhaps a very little thought will now enable you to account for those repeated whaling disasters some few of which are casually chronicled of this man or that man being taken out of the boat by the line, and lost.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the handsome offer with which Mr. Grimwig backed and confirmed nearly every assertion he made; and it was the more singular in his case, because, even admitting for the sake of argument, the possibility of scientific improvements being brought to that pass which will enable a gentleman to eat his own head in the event of his being so disposed, Mr. Grimwig's head was such a particularly large one, that the most sanguine man alive could hardly entertain a hope of being able to get through it at a sitting--to put entirely out of the question, a very thick coating of powder.
-- There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enable Bingley to keep his countenance.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Good: But God wonderfully sent the ship in near enough to the shore, that I have got out as many necessary things as will either supply my wants or enable me to supply myself, even as long as I live.
-- 'Yes, yes,' says I, 'Friday; God is stronger than the devil - God is above the devil, and therefore we pray to God to tread him down under our feet, and enable us to resist his temptations and quench his fiery darts.'
-- I therefore diverted the present discourse between me and my man, rising up hastily, as upon some sudden occa-sion of going out; then sending him for something a good way off, I seriously prayed to God that He would enable me to instruct savingly this poor savage; assisting, by His Spirit, the heart of the poor ignorant creature to receive the light of the knowledge of God in Christ, reconciling him to Him-self, and would guide me so to speak to him from the Word of God that his conscience might be convinced, his eyes opened, and his soul saved.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a very few weeks from the day which brought Sir John Middleton's first letter to Norland, every thing was so far settled in their future abode as to enable Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters to begin their journey.
-- The preferment, which only two days before she had considered as hopeless for Edward, was already provided to enable him to marry; and SHE, of all people in the world, was fixed on to bestow it! Her emotion was such as Mrs. Jennings had attributed to a very different cause; but whatever minor feelings less pure, less pleasing, might have a share in that emotion, her esteem for the general benevolence, and her gratitude for the particular friendship, which together prompted Colonel Brandon to this act, were strongly felt, and warmly expressed.
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