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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, no, excuse me!I'm master of this house, though I do not wish to lack respect towards you.
-- A deep and unchangeable consciousness of his own lack of talent, combined with a vast longing to be able to persuade himself that he was original, had rankled in his heart, even from childhood.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chariots were housed under cover, but their owners, for lack of leadership, wandered hither and thither about the host and went not forth to fight.
-- As when some mighty forest is all ablaze the eddying gusts whirl fire in all directions till the thickets shrivel and are consumed before the blast of the flame even so fell the heads of the flying Trojans before Agamemnon son of Atre-us, and many a noble pair of steeds drew an empty chariot along the highways of war, for lack of drivers who were ly-ing on the plain, more useful now to vultures than to their wives.
-- He fell backwards to the ground, and Menelaus set his heel upon him, stripped him of his armour, and vaunted over him saying, 'Even thus shall you Trojans leave the ships of the Achaeans, proud and insatiate of battle though you be, nor shall you lack any of the disgrace and shame which you have heaped upon myself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt all the wretcheder for the lack of a breakfast.
-- Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.
-- Hitherto we've had a certain lack of meat here.'
-- But with a certain lack of prac-tical sense which has always been my bane, I had made it a mile or more from the sea; and before I had dragged it down to the beach the thing had fallen to pieces.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have all the manifestations of a soft and rich treble; I can, by especial aid, carry a full tenor to the highest letter; but we lack coun-ter and bass!Yon officer of the king, who hesitated to admit me to his company, might fill the latter, if one may judge from the intonations of his voice in common dialogue.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I suppose now that the lack of cigarettes, brought as a rule by her husband, forced him back upon her recollection, and the new feeling that the small comforts she was used to were missing gave her a sudden pang.
-- It seemed to me a little ungracious to decline an invitation of that sort, and I ascribed his refusal to lack of money.
-- He discussed the most intimate matters with a complete lack of self-consciousness.
-- I suppose it was commonplace in me that I felt slightly outraged at his lack of spirit.
-- "It may be a lack of sympathy in myself if it does not make any great difference to me that she is dead.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neb will bring provisions, and there will be no lack of fire to cook the food."
-- "No," replied the reporter; "but if there is a lack of food for want of instruments for the chase?"
-- But they had no lack of provisions, which was lucky, for there were no animals on the shore, though birds, on the contrary, abound jacamars, couroucous, tragopans, grouse, lories, parrots, cockatoos, pheasants, pigeons, and a hundred others.
-- There was no lack of thread, thanks to Cyrus Harding's idea of re-employing that which had been already used in the covering of the balloon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Damp rotten houses, many to let, many yet building, many half-built and mouldering away lodgings, where it would be hard to tell which needed pity most, those who let or those who came to take children, scantily fed and clothed, spread over every street, and sprawling in the dust scolding mothers, stamping their slipshod feet with noisy threats upon the pavement shabby fathers, hurrying with dispirited looks to the occupation which brought them 'daily bread' and little more mangling-women, washer-women, cobblers, tailors, chandlers, driving their trades in parlours and kitchens and back room and garrets, and sometimes all of them under the same roof brick-fields skirting gardens paled with staves of old casks, or timber pillaged from houses burnt down, and blackened and blistered by the flames mounds of dock-weed, nettles, coarse grass and oyster-shells, heaped in rank confusion small dissenting chapels to teach, with no lack of illustration, the miseries of Earth, and plenty of new churches, erected with a little superfluous wealth, to show the way to Heaven.
-- But cold, wet, hunger, want of rest, and lack of any place in which to lay her aching head, soon brought her thoughts back to the point whence they had strayed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The eyes were large and mild; and this may seem egotism on my part I fancied even that there was a certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them.
-- The Sunset of Mankind"A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest.
-- "I thought of the physical slightness of the people, their lack of intelligence, and those big abundant ruins, and it strengthened my belief in a perfect conquest of Nature.
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