deficient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 缺乏的； 欠缺的，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these two facts in my possession I felt that either my intelligence or my courage must be deficient if I could not throw some fur-ther light upon these dark places.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The author of the article was a young man, an invalid, very bold as a writer, but extremely deficient in breeding and shy in personal relations.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am thereforewilling to believe that she was in a fit when we found her underthe boiler; and that the deficient teaspoons were attributable to thedustman.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am happy you approved,' said Emma, smiling; 'but I hope I am not often deficient in what is due to guests at Hartfield.'
-- 'No,' said Mr. Knightley, nearly at the same time; 'you are not often deficient; not often deficient either in manner orcomprehension.
-- If he were deficient there, nothing should make amends for it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here they inquire into the state and condition of the several districts; whether they abound or be deficient in hay or oats, or cows, or Yahoos; and wherev-er there is any want (which is but seldom) it is immediately supplied by unanimous consent and contribution.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge, that he looked as though, if he were cut, he would bleed white.
-- You are extremely deficient in your facts.
-- If I might venture to remark that it is the least in the world deficient in that delicacy to which a youth mistaken, a character misconceived, and abilities misdirected, would turn for relief and guidance, I should express what it presents to my own view.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Suppose that a man,' so his thoughts ran, 'who had been of age some twenty years or so; who was a diffident man, from the circumstances of his youth; who was rather a grave man, from the tenor of his life; who knew himself to be deficient in many little engaging qualities which he admired in others, from having been long in a distant region, with nothing softening near him; who had no kind sisters to present to her; who had no congenial home to make her known in; who was a stranger in the land; who had not a fortune to compensate, in any measure, for these defects; who had nothing in his favour but his honest love and his general wish to do right suppose such a man were to come to this house, and were to yield to the captivation of this charming girl, and were to persuade himself that he could hope to win her; what a weakness it would be!'
-- Not to be deficient in interest, Clennam asked what he might be doing there?
-- 'To think better of it,' returned the gallant Blandois, 'would be to slight a lady; to slight a lady would be to be deficient in chivalry towards the sex; and chivalry towards the sex is a part of my character!'
-- Lest he himself should be found deficient in perfect breeding, Mr Dorrit hastened to reply, 'Unquestionably, madam, you are right.'
-- Hence, she was sufficiently identified with the gentleman to feel compromised by his being more than usually ridiculous; and hence, being by no means deficient in quickness, she sometimes came to his rescue against Gowan, and did him very good service.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were in fact very fine ladies; not deficient in good humour when they were pleased, nor in the power of making themselves agree-able when they chose it, but proud and conceited.
-- It only shows her being deficient in something herself sense or feeling.'
-- 'I never thought Mr. Darcy so deficient in the APPEAR-ANCE of it as you used to do.'
-- She was busily searching through the neighbourhood for a proper situation for her daughter, and, without knowing or considering what their income might be, rejected many as deficient in size and importance.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He does not draw himself, indeed, but he has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people, and I assure you he is by no means deficient in natural taste, though he has not had opportunities of improving it.
-- "I hope, Marianne," continued Elinor, "you do not consider him as deficient in general taste.
-- She wished very much to have the subject continued, though she did not chuse to join in it herself; but nothing more of it was said, and for the first time in her life, she thought Mrs. Jennings deficient either in curiosity after petty information, or in a disposition to communicate it.
-- The openness and heartiness of her manner more than atoned for that want of recollection and elegance which made her often deficient in the forms of politeness; her kindness, recommended by so pretty a face, was engaging; her folly, though evident was not disgusting, because it was not conceited; and Elinor could have forgiven every thing but her laugh.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once in a while he would meet a woman whose youth, sprightliness, and humour would make his wife seem rather deficient by contrast, but the temporary dissatisfaction which such an encounter might arouse would be counterbalanced by his social position and a certain matter of policy.
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