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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Montgomery raised some feeble objections, and at last agreed.
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:
-- These feeble and broken sounds were, however, too familiar to the foresters to draw their at-tention from the more interesting matter of their dialogue.
-- 'Poor fellow!his voice is too feeble to be heard above the din of the falls,' was the answer; 'beside, the cavern will prove his friend.
-- After allowing a moment of stillness to enforce his disci-pline, the voice of the singer was heard, in low, murmuring syllables, gradually stealing on the ear, until it filled the nar-row vault with sounds rendered trebly thrilling by the feeble and tremulous utterance produced by his debility.
-- As the thoughts of those who are in misery seldom slumber, and the invention is never more lively than when it is stimulated by hope, however feeble and remote, he had even imagined that the parental feelings of Munro were to be made instrumental in seduc-ing him from his duty to the king.
-- But the sounds of the rivulet, feeble and murmuring as they were, relieved the guides at once from no trifling embarrassment, and toward it they immediately held their way.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But," asked Harding, in a still feeble voice, "you did not, then, pick me up on the beach?"
-- They had now at their disposal a vast cavern, the size of which could not be properly calculated by the feeble light of their torches, but it would certainly be easy to divide it into rooms, by means of brick partitions, or to use it, if not as a house, at least as a spacious apartment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He said this with such evident surprise that I was perplexed what answer to make, and the more so because coupled with something feeble and wandering in his manner, there were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.
-- Mr Swiveller, after mentally calculating his engagements to a nicety, replied that he should look in at from two minutes before six and seven minutes past; and the man disappearing with this feeble consolation, Richard Swiveller took a greasy memorandum-book from his pocket and made an entry therein.
-- Richard Swiviller considered it advisable to hear no more, but taking advantage of a pause in the dancing, and the approach of Mr Cheggs to pay his court to the old lady, swaggered with an extremely careful assumption of extreme carelessness toward the door, passing on the way Miss Jane Wackles, who in all the glory of her curls was holding a flirtation, (as good practice when no better was to be had) with a feeble old gentleman who lodged in the parlour.
-- By degrees, these dwindled away and disappeared or were replaced, here and there, by a feeble rush-candle which was to burn all night.
-- By very slow and feeble degrees his consciousness came back; but the mind was weakened and its functions were impaired.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While the jury were mounting the steps to the elevation where the desk stood, the priest wriggled his bald, hoary head through the opening of the stole, then rearranging his scanty hair, he turned to the jury: "Raise your right hands and keep your fingers thus," he said, in a slow, feeble voice, raising his bloated hand and pointing at his forehead with the first three of its dimpled fingers.
-- Nekhludoff listened to the hoarse, feeble voice; looked on that fleshless body, those faded eyes under the gray eyebrows, those sunken, shaved cheeks, supported by a military collar, that white cross, and understood that to argue and explain to him the meaning of those words were futile.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I felt assured now of what it was, and from the bottom of my heart I pitied this last feeble rill from the great flood of humanity.
-- "So, as I see it, the Upperworld man had drifted towards his feeble prettiness, and the Underworld to mere mechanical industry.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But he broke in cursing the doctor, in a feeble voice but heartily.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thereat began a feeble scratching outside, and the pile of books moved as if thrust forward.
-- I bid them be quiet, now that they saw me returned, and, benumbed to my very heart, I dragged up stairs; whence, after putting on dry clothes, and pacing to and fro thirty or forty minutes, to restore the animal heat, I adjourned to my study, feeble as a kitten: almost too much so to enjoy the cheerful fire and smoking coffee which the servant had prepared for my refreshment.
-- By his knack of sermonising and pious discoursing, he contrived to make a great impression on Mr. Earnshaw; and the more feeble the master became, the more influence he gained.
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