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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fighting strength of a -python is in the driving blow of his head backed by all the strength and weight of his body.
-- He had carried tents, twelve hundred pounds' weight of tents, on the march in Upper India.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Indulge yourself,' he whispered; 'ought not the sugges-tion of the worthy namesake of the Psalmist to have its weight at such a moment?'
-- The naked body of his antagonist afforded Heyward no means of holding his adversary, who glided from his grasp, and rose again with one knee on his chest, pressing him down with the weight of a giant.
-- But could I find a man among them who would dare to reflect on my child, he should feel the weight of a father's anger!Ha!Major Heyward, you are yourself born at the south, where these unfortunate beings are considered of a race inferior to your own.'
-- Yet that is not the footstep of an Indian!the weight is too much on the heel, and the toes are squared, as though one of the French dancers had been in, pigeon-winging his tribe!Run back, Uncas, and bring me the size of the singer's foot.
-- In addition to this general usage, the tribes friendly to the French knew too well the weight of the blow that had just been struck, to apprehend any im-mediate danger from the hostile nations that were tributary to the crown of Britain.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not only the bold simplification of the drawing which showed so rich and so singular a personality; it was not only the painting, though the flesh was painted with a passionate sensuality which had in it something miraculous; it was not only the solidity, so that you felt extraordinarily the weight of the body; there was also a spirituality, troubling and new, which led the imagination along unsuspected ways, and suggested dim empty spaces, lit only by the eternal stars, where the soul, all naked, adventured fearful to the discovery of new mysteries.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It can be thus easily understood that when it is lightened of any considerable weight its movement will be impetuous and sudden.
-- He, however, fearing that its additional weight might impede their ascent, wished to send away the animal.
-- He saw nothing of the balloon, which, lightened both of his weight and that of the dog, had darted away like an arrow.
-- As it was useless to burden themselves with the weight of both the animals, Neb and Pencroft resolved to skin them on the spot, while Cyrus Harding and the reporter continued to explore the islet.
-- They certainly could not think of carrying this load of cloth, ropes, and cordage, to Granite House, for the weight of it was very considerable, and while waiting for a suitable vehicle in which to convey it, it was of importance that this treasure should not be left longer exposed to the mercies of the first storm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You must not attach too great weight to a remark founded on first appearances, my friend,' said I.
-- She need be accustomed to such loads betimes though, neighbor, for she will carry weight when you are dead.'
-- The fountains of her heart were opened; the child, overpowered by the weight of her sorrows and anxieties, by the first confidence she had ever shown, and the sympathy with which her little tale had been received, hid her face in the arms of her helpless friend, and burst into a passion of tears.
-- There were the seats where the poor old people sat, worn spare, and yellow like themselves; the rugged font where children had their names, the homely altar where they knelt in after life, the plain black tressels that bore their weight on their last visit to the cool old shady church.
-- She was looking at a humble stone which told of a young man who had died at twenty-three years old, fifty-five years ago, when she heard a faltering step approaching, and looking round saw a feeble woman bent with the weight of years, who tottered to the foot of that same grave and asked her to read the writing on the stone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as has often been pointed out by the Senate, the character and moral features generally of an accused are to be given the greatest weight in determining the question of intent.'--Two."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clambering upon the stand, and grasping this lever in my hands, I put all my weight upon it sideways.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The blind man clung close to me, holding me in one iron fist and leaning almost more of his weight on me than I could carry.
-- The name of Captain Flint, though it was strange to me, was well enough known to some there and carried a great weight of terror.
-- But even a small change in the disposition of the weight will produce violent changes in the behaviour of a coracle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us admit that the pressure of the atmosphere is represented by the weight of a column of water thirty-two feet high.
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