lack是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 缺乏， 不足，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：
-- It was the rainy season, "le tempo das aguas," as the Spanish call it, a trying season to travelers, but useful to the inhabitants of the African Islands, who lack trees and consequently water.
-- Shall we find any lack of rivers and streams and currents?
-- He abused the poor mosquitoes desperately, and deplored the lack of some acid lotion which would have eased the pain of their stings.
-- The supper was not very reviving without drink of any kind, and they tried to make up for the lack of it by a good sleep.
-- This continent is not much better known than the interior of Africa, and yet it is from no lack of enterprising travelers.
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：
-- Everything was working in my favour, and I swore that it should not be through lack of energy or perseverance that I should miss the chance which fortune had thrown in my way.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Excellency,' he said, impulsively, 'if you want a reliable man for the night, I am ready to sacrifice myself for my friend such a soul as he has!I have long thought him a great man, excellency!My article showed my lack of educa-tion, but when he criticizes he scatters pearls!'
-- I assure you, she is simply making a fool of you, just as she does with one and all of us out of pure lack of something better to do.
-- 'In spite of his lack of amiability, I could not help see-ing, in Rogojin a man of intellect and sense; and although, perhaps, there was little in the outside world which was of.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There is no lack of strength,' answered the little tailor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The following day was remarkable by its lack of any particular incidents.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew that the kindliness indicated a lack of fear, and that these people had no respect for you unless you could frighten them a lit-tle.
-- If lack of sex is going to disintegrate you, then go out and have a love-affair.
-- If lack of a child is going to disintegrate you, then have a child if you possibly can.
-- This lack of warmth, this lack of the simple, warm, physical contact, was he not to blame for that?
-- The stand-offishness and the lack of frankness didn't bother her; she was having a new experience.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To these he responded with the greatest liberality, and with no lack of formality; always first writing to appoint a time at which the applicant might wait upon him in his room, and then receiving him in the midst of a vast accumulation of documents, and accompanying his donation (for he said in every such case, 'it is a donation, not a loan') with a great deal of good counsel: to the effect that he, the expiring Father of the Marshalsea, hoped to be long remembered, as an example that a man might preserve his own and the general respect even there.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of common consistency about worthy Captain Bildad.
-- Gifted with the high perception, I lack the low, enjoying power; damned, most subtly and most malignantly!damned in the midst of Paradise!Good night good night!
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took her hand, feeling in his good-natured egotism that it was probably lack of his presence which had made her lonely.
-- The lack of feeling in the thing was ridiculous.
-- Mrs. Hurstwood noticed the lack of colour in it.
-- Chapter XXIII A SPIRIT IN TRAVAIL--ONE RUNG PUT BEHIND When Carrie reached her own room she had already fallen a prey to those doubts and misgivings which are ever the result of a lack of decision.
-- This was due to a lack of power on his part, a lack of that majesty of passion that sweeps the mind from its seat, fuses and melts all arguments and theories into a tangled mass, and destroys for the time being the reasoning power.
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