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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Scarlett shivered as shewatched him run down the walk to the carriage, his saber glinting in the feeble winter sunlight, the fringe of his sashdancing jauntily.
-- She thought she heard a feeble call from the next room but she paid it no heed.
-- Scarlett held the lamphigh for Rhett to see and started toward the door when Melanie made a feeble gesture toward the wall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- with the feeble malice of a tired man; but, as he had no theory, and no coat on, he was unanimously set at naught,--not to mention his smoking hard behind, as he stood with his back to the kitchen fire to draw the damp out: which was not calculated to inspire confidence.
-- Mrs. Pocket they held in contempt; but they allowed the poor soul to have been heavily disappointed in life, because that shed a feeble reflected light upon themselves.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The little man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard with the fishing-line; a moment later a big fish made a bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf towards him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Only a few feeble stragglers said Yes: among them Sissy Jupe.
-- She gave some feeble signs of returning animation when they entered, and presently the faint transparency was presented in a sitting attitude.
-- Mr. Harthouse, as a thoroughly well-bred man, accustomed to the best society, was not to be surprised he could as soon have been affected but he raised his eyelids a little more, as if they were lifted by a feeble touch of wonder.
-- Her feeble voice sounded so far away in her bundle of shawls, and the sound of another voice addressing her seemed to take such a long time in getting down to her ears, that she might have been lying at the bottom of a well.
-- The hand soon stopped in the midst of them; the light that had always been feeble and dim behind the weak transparency, went out; and even Mrs. Gradgrind, emerged from the shadow in which man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain, took upon her the dread solemnity of the sages and patriarchs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To give body and existence to such new sensations would have required the coinage of new words--and here my feeble brain found itself wholly at fault.
-- The existing saurians, which include all such reptiles as lizards, crocodiles, and alligators, even the largest and most formidable of their class, are but feeble imitations of their mighty sires, the animals of ages long ago.
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:
-- But Clifford knew that when it did come to the emotional and human life, these self-made men were of a mental age of about thirteen, feeble boys.
-- Connie thought what a pathetic sort of thing a man was, feeble and small-looking, when he was lying on his belly on the big earth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the midst of such replies as 'Frenchman, sir,' 'Porteghee, sir,' 'Dutchman, sir,' 'Prooshan, sir,' and other conflicting testimony, he now heard a feeble voice asking, both in Italian and in French, for water.
-- SpiritAnybody may pass, any day, in the thronged thoroughfares of the metropolis, some meagre, wrinkled, yellow old man (who might be supposed to have dropped from the stars, if there were any star in the Heavens dull enough to be suspected of casting off so feeble a spark), creeping along with a scared air, as though bewildered and a little frightened by the noise and bustle.
-- You are very feeble indeed.'
-- Honouring the last feeble suggestion with no notice, Mrs Sparkler declared with bitterness that it really was too bad, and that positively it was enough to make one wish one was dead!
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One dis-covered that money couldn't keep shame and sorrow out of rich people's houses, another that, though she was poor, she was a great deal happier, with her youth, health, and good spirits, than a certain fretful, feeble old lady who couldn't enjoy her comforts, a third that, disagreeable as it was to help get dinner, it was harder still to go begging for it and the fourth, that even carnelian rings were not so valuable as good behavior.
-- She was flirting her fan and laughing at the feeble jokes of a young gentleman who tried to be witty, when she sudden-ly stopped laughing and looked confused, for just opposite, she saw Laurie.
-- Her once active limbs were so stiff and feeble that Jo took her for a daily airing about the house in her strong arms.
-- The study door flew open, the little red wrapper appeared on the threshold, joy put strength into the feeble limbs, and Beth ran straight into her father's arms.
-- Don't take off your apron, whatever you do, it's peculiarly becoming,' said Lau-rie, as Jo bestowed his especial aversion in her capacious pocket and offered her arm to support his feeble steps.
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