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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we should ever be happily enabled, by accidentally possessing the control over circumstances, to propose to one so eminent to to come among us, and give us the weight of his influence, knowledge, and character, we could only propose it to him as a duty.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo read it thank-fully, but the heavy weight did not seem lifted off her heart, and her face was so full of misery that Laurie asked quickly, 'What is it?
-- No one spoke of it or seemed aware of it, for it had come too gradually to startle those who saw her daily, but to eyes sharpened by absence, it was very plain and a heavy weight fell on Jo's heart as she saw her sister's face.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm did when I first awoke, I could hardly tell it from the quilt, they so blended their hues together; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I could tell that Queequeg was hugging me.
-- When he entered I observed that he carried no umbrella, and certainly had not come in his carriage, for his tarpaulin hat ran down with melting sleet, and his great pilot cloth jacket seemed almost to drag him to the floor with the weight of the water it had absorbed.
-- "Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly oscillates in Jonah's room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung.
-- By experiment its one and fifty yarns will each suspend a weight of one hundred and twenty pounds; so that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal to three tons.
-- But this difficulty is ingeniously overcome: a small, strong line is prepared with a wooden float at its outer end, and a weight in its middle, while the other end is secured to the ship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver, having taken down the shutters, and broken a pane of glass in his effort to stagger away beneath the weight of the first one to a small court at the side of the house in which they were kept during the day, was graciously assisted by Noah: who having consoled him with the assurance that 'he'd catch it,' condescended to help him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'By all means,' cried Bingley; 'let us hear all the particu-lars, not forgetting their comparative height and size; for that will have more weight in the argument, Miss Bennet, than you may be aware of.
-- He wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should NOW escape him, nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing his felicity; sensible that if such an idea had been suggested, his behaviour during the last day must have material weight in confirming or crushing it.
-- When she thought of her mother, her confidence gave way a little; but she would not allow that any objections THERE had material weight with Mr. Darcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would re-ceive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend's connections, than from their want of sense; and she was quite decided, at last, that he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of retain-ing Mr. Bingley for his sister.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accordingly, I let myself down into the water, and swam across the channel, which lay between the ship and the sands, and even that with difficulty enough, partly with the weight of the things I had about me, and partly the roughness of the water; for the wind rose very hastily, and before it was quite high water it blew a storm.
-- - Went to the wreck again, not with an intent to work, but found the weight of the wreck had broke itself down, the beams being cut; that several pieces of the ship seemed to lie loose, and the inside of the hold lay so open that I could see into it; but it was almost full of water and sand.
-- Accordingly, having spent three days in this journey, I came home (so I must now call my tent and my cave); but before I got thither the grapes were spoiled; the richness of the fruit and the weight of the juice having broken them and bruised them, they were good for little or nothing; as to the limes, they were good, but I could bring but a few.
-- I spent many a day to find out a great stone big enough to cut hollow, and make fit for a mortar, and could find none at all, except what was in the solid rock, and which I had no way to dig or cut out; nor indeed were the rocks in the island of hardness sufficient, but were all of a sandy, crumbling stone, which neither would bear the weight of a heavy pestle, nor would break the corn without filling it with sand.
-- At length I resolved to try a pitfall; so I dug sev-eral large pits in the earth, in places where I had observed the goats used to feed, and over those pits I placed hurdles of my own making too, with a great weight upon them; and several times I put ears of barley and dry rice without set-ting the trap; and I could easily perceive that the goats had gone in and eaten up the corn, for I could see the marks of their feet.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know very well that my opinion would have no weight with you, unless it were on the side of your wishes."
-- "'Tis because you are an indifferent person," said Lucy, with some pique, and laying a particular stress on those words, "that your judgment might justly have such weight with me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The semblance of the load without the weight touched the woman's heart.
-- The whole incident was so out of the natural that she did not attach too much weight to anything she imagined.
-- Carrie thought of this doubtfully; but, coming from him, it had weight with her.
-- The manager who was putting on the summer skit at the Casino had never heard of Carrie, but the several notices she had received, her published picture, and the programme bearing her name had some little weight with him.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wouldn' lay de weight er my finger on um, not f'r ten hund'd thous'n billion dollars, I wouldn't.'
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