deficiency是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 缺乏, 不足; 缺陷，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not knowing what might be the consequences of irritating her friend, and trembling with the fear of doing so, poor Nell sang him some little ditty which she had learned in happier times, and which was so agreeable to his ear, that on its conclusion he in the same peremptory manner requested to be favoured with another, to which he was so obliging as to roar a chorus to no particular tune, and with no words at all, but which amply made up in its amazing energy for its deficiency in other respects.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would onlyshow the deficiency of the others.
-- 'Having counted our funds, and reduced to order a greatmass of unintentional confusion in the first place, and of wilfulconfusion and falsification in the second, we take it to be clear that 715Mr. Wickfield might now wind up his business, and his agency-trust, and exhibit no deficiency or defalcation whatever.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her own father's perfect exemption from any thought of the kind, the entire deficiency in him of all such sort of pen-etration or suspicion, was a most comfortable circumstance.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will give you an idea, therefore, of the strange deficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thereupon he shook his head and tapped it, expressing his sense of deficiency in Joseph.
-- Yes, Joseph,' says you," here Pumblechook shook his head and hand at me, "'he knows my total deficiency of common human gratitoode.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a lack of robust self, she had no natural sufficiency, there was a terrible void, a lack, a deficiency of being within her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dash the nose from Phidias's marble Jove, and what a sorry remainder!Nevertheless, Leviathan is of so mighty a magnitude, all his proportions are so stately, that the same deficiency which in the sculptured Jove were hideous, in him is no blemish at all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh!Charlotte,' said Mrs. Sowerberry: speaking as well as she could, through a deficiency of breath, and a sufficiency of cold water, which Noah had poured over her head and shoulders.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 7 r. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an Mestate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
-- Chapter 15 r. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency Mof nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquain-tance.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Edward's side, more particularly, there was a deficiency of all that a lover ought to look and say on such an occasion.
-- Lucy was naturally clever; her remarks were often just and amusing; and as a companion for half an hour Elinor frequently found her agreeable; but her powers had received no aid from education: she was ignorant and illiterate; and her deficiency of all mental improvement, her want of information in the most common particulars, could not be concealed from Miss Dashwood, in spite of her constant endeavour to appear to advantage.
-- In spite of the improvements and additions which were making to the Norland estate, and in spite of its owner having once been within some thousand pounds of being obliged to sell out at a loss, nothing gave any symptom of that indigence which he had tried to infer from it; no poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared but there, the deficiency was considerable.
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