feeble是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 虚弱的, 无力的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope,' said Mr. Lorry, after another pause of feeble 37sympathy and humility, 'that you accompany Miss Manette to France?'
-- Across the streets, at wide intervals, one clumsy lamp was slung by a rope and pulley; at night, when the lamplighter had let these down, and lighted, and hoisted them again, a feeble grove of dim wicks swung in a sickly manner overhead, as if they were at sea.
-- It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago.
-- The postilion cracked his whip, and they clattered away under the feeble over-swinging lamps.
-- Those venerable and feeble persons were always seen by the public in the act of bowing, and were popularly be-lieved, when they had bowed a customer out, still to keep on bowing in the empty office until they bowed another cus-tomer in.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The simple-hearted Marya Yevgenyevna simply roared with laughter at everything absurd the prince said, and his jokes made Varenka helpless with feeble but infectious laughter, which was something Kitty had never seen before.
-- But Seryozha, though he heard his tutor's feeble voice, did not pay attention to it.
-- And he cured her husband, though I can't say that I see he did him much good, for he's just as feeble a creature as ever he was, but they believed in him, and took him along with them and brought him to Russia.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It damaged his already feeble belief in man's divinity and immortality.
-- "Probably not--and until some genius like yourself, Arrowsmith, can herd together a few hundred people with exactly identical cases of erysipelas, it probably never will be tried!Meanwhile I trust that you other gentlemen, who perhaps lack Mr. Arrowsmith's profound scientific attainments and the power to use such handy technical terms as 'control,' will, merely on my feeble advice, continue to use ichthyol!"
-- The stink of cheap feeble cigarettes and cheap powerful cigars hovered about the table like a malign spirit; the floor was scattered with stubs, matches, old cards, and whisky bottles.
-- His authority, as Woestijne's alter ego, was imposing on paper but feeble in action, and it was worthless against the stubbornness which he aroused.
-- Among these jests Martin had never beheld one so pungent as this whereby the pretentiousness and fussy unimaginativeness which he had detested in Tubbs should have made him a good manager, while the genius of Gottlieb should have made him a feeble tyrant; the jest that the one thing worse than a too managed and standardized institution should be one that was not managed and standardized at all.
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：
-- She dragged the wash tub into the room with her feeble hands and sank on the bed, gasping for breath.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The exertion this cost him, or theconsciousness of talking in that feeble way, made his angry face so 83much more angry, and his thick veins so much thicker, when hespoke, that I am not surprised, on looking back, at this peculiaritystriking me as his chief one.
-- The master of this shop was sitting at the door in his shirt-sleeves,smoking; and as there were a great many coats and pairs oftrousers dangling from the low ceiling, and only two feeble candlesburning inside to show what they were, I fancied that he lookedlike a man of a revengeful disposition, who had hung all hisenemies, and was enjoying himself.
-- The patienceand hope with which he bore these perpetual disappointments, themild perception he had that there was something wrong aboutKing Charles the First, the feeble efforts he made to keep him out,and the certainty with which he came in, and tumbled theMemorial out of all shape, made a deep impression on me.
-- That I retired to bed in a most maudlin stateof mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation.
-- He laughed heartily at my feeble portrait of that gentleman, andsaid he was a man to know, and he must know him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew that at times she must be missed; and could not think, without pain, of Emma's losing a single pleasure, or suffering an hour's ennui, from the want of her compan-ionableness: but dear Emma was of no feeble character; she was more equal to her situation than most girls would have been, and had sense, and energy, and spirits that might be hoped would bear her well and happily through its little dif-ficulties and privations.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was took bad in the morning, and, being quite feeble and worn out, she died in the evening.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I replied in the same language, with a feeble voice, 'I be-lieve I am; but if it be all true, if indeed I did not dream, I am sorry that I am still alive to feel this misery and horror.'
-- I sat by his bed, watching him; his eyes were closed, and I thought he slept; but presently he called to me in a feeble voice, and bidding me come near, said, 'Alas!The strength I relied on is gone; I feel that I shall soon die, and he, my enemy and persecutor, may still be in being.
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