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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course I live now without any very practical ob-jects in life; but, being full of self-respect, in which quality the ordinary Russian is so deficient as a rule, and of activity, I am desirous, in a word, prince, of placing myself and my wife and children in a position of in fact, I want advice.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hands were always mal-formed; and though some surprised me by their unexpected human appearance, almost all were deficient in the number of the digits, clumsy about the finger-nails, and lacking any tactile sensibility.
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：
-- Though deficient in neither of these qualities, he had met an enemy every way his equal.
-- It is now becoming obscured by time; and thousands, who know that Montcalm died like a hero on the plains of Abraham, have yet to learn how much he was deficient in that moral cour-age without which no man can be truly great.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have been a stranger to this country, gentlemen, for very many years, and if I am deficient in form and ceremony, I hope you will forgive me.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before twenty minutes were over we should be on board, and I should be able to breathe with ease, for it seemed that my reservoir supplied air very deficient in oxygen.
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：
-- She must be confident here, for God knows, she felt rejected and deficient enough elsewhere.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had reached the age of sixteen then, I think, and without having bad features, or being deficient in intellect, he contrived to convey an impression of inward and outward repulsiveness that his present aspect retains no traces of.
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