abortive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 无效果的， 失败的，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I proceed, then, from the morning which followed our abortive chase of the convict and our other strange experiences upon the moor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He amused the engineer by the history of the single match, then his abortive attempt to procure fire in the savages' way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nell returned a satisfactory reply, and Mrs Jarley, after sticking a great many pins into various parts of her figure, and making several abortive attempts to obtain a full view of her own back, was at last satisfied with her appearance, and went forth majestically.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps 37most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of these virtuosi seemed to think that I might be an embryo, or abortive birth.
-- He added, 'that nature was degenerated in these latter declining ages of the world, and could now produce only small abortive births, in comparison of those in ancient times.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After several abortive attempts to get Affery to look at him while she cleared the table and washed the tea-service, Arthur thought of an expedient which Flora might originate.
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