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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course, his weight shut up the instrument immediately by pushing the different parts one into the other, and so suddenly, that he fell full length on deck, and lay sprawling at the foot of the mainmast.
-- At the same moment the wind redoubled its fury, making the masts bend beneath the weight of the sails, and completely lifting up the yacht.
-- Whether the weight of the train had been too much for the bridge, or whether the train had gone off the rails, the fact remained that five carriages out of six fell into the bed of the Loddon, dragged down by the locomotive.
-- I would pay its weight in gold for a raft which would carry us over to the other side."
-- "Yes, captain," answered the sailor, throwing his whole weight on the great oar that steered the raft.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We shuffled cautiously towards it, trying every plank before we dared to put our whole weight upon it.
-- I am conscious myself of a weight at my heart and a feeling of impending danger ever present danger, which is the more terrible because I am unable to define it.
-- But his next remark took a weight from my mind.
-- Then my senses and my voice came back to me, while a crushing weight of responsibility seemed in an instant to be lifted from my soul.
-- As it is, I have been able to get about as I could not possibly have done had I been living in the Hall, and I remain an unknown factor in the business, ready to throw in all my weight at a critical moment.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the more I thought of it, the more I felt the weight of it upon my mind; and I never got quite rid of the impression until I put a couple of old women into an alms-house and kept them there at my own expense.
-- The prince tried to speak, but could not form his words; a great weight seemed to lie upon his breast and suffocate him.
-- She was a lady of weight in her own way.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His comrades bore Sarpedon out of the fight, in great pain by the weight of the spear that was dragging from his wound.
-- For the sweat caused by the hand that bore the weight of his shield irritated the hurt: his arm was weary with pain, and he was lifting up the strap to wipe away the blood.
-- His mother, fair Castianeira, lovely as a goddess, had been married from Aesyme, and now he bowed his head as a garden poppy in full bloom when it is weighed down by showers in spring even thus heavy bowed his head be-neath the weight of his helmet.
-- When he had got close up to them, Hector strode towards them that his blow might gain in force and struck them in the middle, leaning his whole weight against them.
-- If the best men at the ships were being cho-sen to go on an ambush and there is nothing like this for showing what a man is made of; it comes out then who is cowardly and who brave; the coward will change colour at every touch and turn; he is full of fears, and keeps shifting his weight first on one knee and then on the other; his heart beats fast as he thinks of death, and one can hear the chat-tering of his teeth; whereas the brave man will not change colour nor be frightened on finding himself in ambush, but is all the time longing to go into action if the best men were being chosen for such a service, no one could make light of your courage nor feats of arms.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He let go incontinently, and I swung the whole weight into the air.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I crawled out from under its unclean weight and stood up trembling, staring at its quivering body.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had they been alone they could have gone twice as fast, but the boy's weight held them back.
-- 'Maybe thy great weight has something to do with the matter,' said Baloo.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as Pinocchio no longer felt the shameful weight of the dog collar around his neck, he started to run across the fields and meadows, and never stopped till he came to the main road that was to take him to the Fairy's house.
-- Not an orchestra chair could be had, not a balcony seat, nor a gallery seat; not even for their weight in gold.
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