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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her chest had dropped, so that she stooped; and her voice had dropped, so that she spoke low, and with a dead lull upon her; altogether, she had the appearance of having dropped body and soul, within and without, under the weight of a crushing blow.
-- Now the reality was in my hold, I only felt that I was dusty with the dust of small-coal, and that I had a weight upon my daily remembrance to which the anvil was a feather.
-- Still more, when his mourning 'at is unfortunately made so small as that the weight of the black feathers brings it off, try to keep it on how you may."
-- The watchman made more light of the matter than I did, and naturally; not having my reason for attaching weight to it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he left her by herself; and though he thought it most likely that the wild beasts would tear her in pieces, he felt as if a great weight were tak-en off his heart when he had made up his mind not to kill her but to leave her to her fate, with the chance of someone finding and saving her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
-- The frog lay concealed till I was put into my boat, but then, seeing a resting- place, climbed up, and made it lean so much on one side, that I was forced to balance it with all my weight on the other, to prevent overturning.
-- To say the truth, it was more for show than use, being not of strength to bear the weight of the larger coins, and therefore she kept nothing in it but some little toys that girls are fond of.
-- Whether party, in religion or politics, were observed to be of any weight in the scale of justice?
-- My box, by the weight of my body, the goods that were in, and the broad plates of iron fixed for strength at the four corners of the top and bottom, floated about five feet deep in water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- LOWER AND LOWERThe figure descended the great stairs, steadily, steadily; always verging, like a weight in deep water, to the black gulf at the bottom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Four horses were prepared for us, two to carry the baggage, and two to bear the important weight of myself and uncle.
-- The whole land seemed crushed under the weight of enormous stones--of trap, of basalt, of granite, of lava, and of all other volcanic substances.
-- At length a time came when despite the enormous thickness and weight of the upper crust, the mechanical forces of the combustible gases below became so great, that they actually upheaved the weighty back and made for themselves huge and gigantic shafts.
-- A rope fastened above, near the surface, would certainly support our weight and enable us to reach the bottom, but how, when we had arrived at its utmost depth, were we to loosen it above?
-- The cord appeared to me far too fragile to bear the weight of three such persons as we were, with our luggage.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A strange weight was on her limbs.
-- They had perhaps some of the weird, inhuman beauty of minerals, the lustre of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the trans-parency of glass.
-- And the strange weight of the balls between his legs!What a mystery!What a strange heavy weight of mystery, that could lie soft and heavy in one's hand!The roots, root of all that is lovely, the primeval root of all full beauty.
-- He stooped and took out the scotch, then put his weight against the chair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still so recoiling in her chair that her overpoised weight moved it, from time to time, a little on its wheels, and gave her the appearance of a phantom of fierce aspect gliding away from him, she interposed her left arm, bent at the elbow with the back of her hand towards her face, between herself and him, and looked at him in a fixed silence.
-- Mr Casby seemed a feather's weight disappointed by the last words, having perhaps prepared himself for the visitor's wishing to pay something else.
-- It packed up, in the smallest compass, a weight that had rested on Clennam's life; and he made no answer.
-- But the Tug, suddenly lightened, and untrammelled by having any weight in tow, was already puffing away into the distance.
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