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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There is noextent of mere weakness, Clara,' said Mr. Murdstone in reply, 'thatcan have the least weight with me, You lose breath.'
-- I havethought, since, that its assuming that character was a necessaryconsequence of Mr. Murdstone's firmness, which wouldn't allow 55him to let anybody off from the utmost weight of the severestpenalties he could find any excuse for.
-- What walks I took alone, down muddy lanes, in the bad winterweather, carrying that parlour, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone in it,everywhere: a monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, adaymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight thatbrooded on my wits, and blunted them!
-- I felt a great weight taken off my mind bythis promise; but even this was not all, for Peggotty went on tosay'I'm a going, Davy, you see, to my brother's, first, for anotherfortnight's visitjust till I have had time to look about me, and get tobe something like myself again.
-- In my forlorn state I became quite attached to thefamily, and used to walk about, busy with Mrs. Micawber'scalculations of ways and means, and heavy with the weight of Mr.Micawber's debts.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had already satisfied herself that he thought Harriet a beautiful girl, which she trusted, with such frequent meet-ings at Hartfield, was foundation enough on his side; and on Harriet's there could be little doubt that the idea of be-ing preferred by him would have all the usual weight and efficacy.
-- She could not be alone without feeling the full weight of their separate claims; and how to guard the comfort of both to the utmost, was the question.
-- In such a party, Harriet would be rather a dead weight than oth-erwise; but for the poor girl herself, it seemed a peculiarly cruel necessity that was to be placing her in such a state of unmerited punishment.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Footsteps were heard in the passage, combining in their character the qualities both of weight and measure, rather at the expense of velocity.
-- Liddy, like a little brook, though shallow, was always rippling; her presence had not so much weight as to task thought, and yet enough to exercise it.
-- A man is never more credulous than in receiving favourable opinions on the beauty of a woman he is half, or quite, in love with; a mere child's word on the point has the weight of an R.A.'s.
-- Oak stood somewhat as Eros is represented when in the act of sharpening his arrows: his figure slightly bent, the weight of his body thrown over on the shears, and his head balanced side-ways, with a critical compression of the lips and contraction of the eyelids to crown the attitude.
-- She placed one of these forks under each arm as a crutch, tested them, timidly threw her whole weight upon them so little that it was and swung herself forward.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.
-- 'No one did at first; but several circumstances came out, that have almost forced conviction upon us; and her own behaviour has been so confused, as to add to the evidence of facts a weight that, I fear, leaves no hope for doubt.
-- The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart which nothing could remove.
-- The weight upon my spirit was sensibly lightened as I plunged yet deeper in the ravine of Arve.
-- Even in my own heart I could give no expression to my sen-sations they weighed on me with a mountain's weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her neck, rising from the black taffeta sheath of her basque, was creamy-skinned, rounded and slender, and it seemedalways tilted slightly backward by the weight of her luxuriant hair in its net at the back of her head.
-- "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought, not seeing in his face the cold hardintelligence that was carrying the weight of a new nation.
-- Mrs.Meade and Mrs. Merriwether sent their carriages and they, too, drove off, springs sagging beneath the weight of thewounded.
-- "Wel'm," answered Prissy, dragging out her words pleasurably to give more weight to her message.
-- The sunblinded her, the hard boards of the wagon under her were harsh against her body, and a heavy weight lay across herlegs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under the weight of my wicked secret, I pondered whether the Church would be powerful enough to shield me from the vengeance of the terrible young man, if I divulged to that establishment.
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