weight是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 重量； 负荷， 重担； 重要性， 分量； 砝码， 秤砣，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Or would you know,' pursued the Ghost, 'the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself?
-- Mrs Cratchit said that now the weight was off her mind, she would confess she had had her doubts about the quantity of flour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the es-tablishment.
-- Miss Pross's fidelity of belief in Sol-omon (deducting a mere trifle for this slight mistake) was quite a serious matter with Mr. Lorry, and had its weight in his good opinion of her.
-- 167 The great door clanged behind him, and Monsieur the Marquis crossed a hall grim with certain old boar-spears, swords, and knives of the chase; grimmer with certain heavy riding-rods and riding-whips, of which many a peas-ant, gone to his benefactor Death, had felt the weight when his lord was angry.
-- 'If it ever becomes mine, it shall be put into some hands better qualified to free it slowly (if such a thing is possible) from the weight that drags it down, so that the miserable people who cannot leave it and who have been long wrung to the last point of endurance, may, in another generation, suffer less; but it is not for me.
-- By slow degrees the weight broke 228 A tale of two citiesaway the earth upon it, and came to the surface.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said she, and looked on all sides; but the old man was gone, and her little child was gone he had taken it with him; and the old clock in the corner burred, and burred, the great leaden weight ran down to the floor, bump!and then the clock also stood still.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then, jealousy means lowering both myself and her," he told himself as he went into her boudoir; but this dictum, which had always had such weight with him before, had now no weight and no meaning at all.
-- The greater number of the young women, who envied Anna and had long been weary of hearing her called virtuous, rejoiced at the fulfillment of their predictions, and were only waiting for a decisive turn in public opinion to fall upon her with all the weight of their scorn.
-- "It's just this," said the doctor, taking a finger of his kid glove in his white hands and pulling it, "if you don't strain the strings, and then try to break them, you'll find it a difficult job; but strain a string to its very utmost, and the mere weight of one finger on the strained string will snap it.
-- First she gathered it together, stuck the fork into it, then with a rapid, supple movement leaned the whole weight of her body on it, and at once with a bend of her back under the red belt she drew herself up, and arching her full bosom under the white smock, with a smart turn swung the fork in her arms, and flung the bundle of hay high onto the cart.
-- And, strange to say, what had had such weight with him, while they were there and while he mentally put himself at their point of view, suddenly lost all importance for him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quite different from Lake Asphaltite, whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerable salt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter, its specific weight being 1,170, and, after being distilled, 1,000.
-- The bridge at Medicine Bow is shaky, and would not bear the weight of the train."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While the assistant tagged the pig with a tin disk in its ear and restored it to the battery jar, Gottlieb set down its weight in a note-book, with the time of inoculation and the age of the bacterial culture.
-- Her confidence in him, the affection of this uprooted old woman bewildered in a strange land, overcame him; he lost all his whisky- colored feeling that he was a nimble fellow, and in a melancholy way, with all the weight of life again upon him, he sighed that no, nothing had happened, but he'd forgotten to tell Madeline something--so shor--so sorry call so late--could he speak Mad just minute-- Then Madeline was bubbling, "Why, Marty dear, what is it?
-- He had in three years of practice already become didactic and incredibly married; he had put on weight and infallibility; and he had learned many new things about which to be dull.
-- "I have let you alone, Dr. Gottlieb," said Tubbs, "but, hang it, I am the Director!And I must say that, perhaps owing to my signal stupidity, I fail to see the horrors of enabling Arrowsmith to cure thousands of suffering persons and to become a man of weight and esteem!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, indeed, sir, he is of more weight than I am.'
-- 'This is what it is,' she began in haste, as though the permission to speak of her trouble lifted a weight off hermind.
-- Pyotr Petrovitch met her 'politely and affably,' but with a certain shade of bantering familiarity which in his opinion was suitable for a man of his respectability and weight in dealing with a creature so young and so interesting as she.
-- A weight seemed to have rolled from his heart perhaps not only the fear of death; indeed he may scarcely have felt it at that moment.
-- 758 Crime and Punishment He preferred to attribute it to the dead weight of instinct which he could not step over, again through weakness and meanness.
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