weak是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 虚弱的， 软弱的； 不够标准的； 淡薄的， 稀的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
-- 'It makes them weak by candle-light; and I wouldn't show weak eyes to your father when he comes home, for the world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beauti-ful colour faded away into a poor weak stain.
-- The task of re-calling him from the vagrancy into which he always sank when he had spoken, was like recalling some very weak per-son from a swoon, or endeavouring, in the hope of some 58 A tale of two citiesdisclosure, to stay the spirit of a fast-dying man.
-- After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the din-giest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingi-er by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar.
-- 'When the prisoner came on board, he noticed that my father,' turning her eyes lovingly to him as he stood beside her, 'was much fatigued and in a very weak state of health.
-- Argued with the jury on substantial worldly grounds the only grounds ever worth taking into account it was a plain case, and had not a weak spot in it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 32 The particulars which the princess had learned in regard to Varenka's past and her relations with Madame Stahl were as follows: Madame Stahl, of whom some people said that she had worried her husband out of his life, while others said it was he who had made her wretched by his immoral behavior, had always been a woman of weak health and enthusiastic temperament.
-- "You are still in weak health?"
-- In the first letter, Marya Nikolaevna wrote that his brother had sent her away for no fault of hers, and, with touching simplicity, added that though she was in want again, she asked for nothing, and wished for nothing, but was only tormented by the thought that Nikolay Dmitrievitch would come to grief without her, owing to the weak state of his health, and begged his brother to look after him.
-- A dead silence followed, and then a weak old voice was heard: "Declined!"
-- "But she was always in weak health."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin was sobbing, too weak for restraint, too lonely and too weak, and Dr. Silva soothed, "Let's just go over everything and find out where the trouble was.
-- At eleven the victory was certain, and Martin, his bowels weak with unconfidence, realized that he was now Director of Public Health, with responsibility for seventy thousand lives.
-- "It isn't just Jordan's plotting and Tredgold's grousing and Pugh's weak spine.
-- Martin bent over him, agonized to see how burning was his skin, how swollen his face and his tongue, how weak his voice as he babbled: "Gottlieb is right about these jests of God.
-- "I wish I had some way of showing you-- Oh, for a 'scientist' you do have the most incredible blind-spots!I wish I could make you see just how weak and futile that is.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But her chest is weak and she has a tendency to consumption and I feel it!Do you suppose I don't feel it?
-- 'You too come forth,' He will say, 'Come forth ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye chil-dren of shame!'
-- She set before him her own cracked teapot full of weak and stale tea and laid two yellow lumps of sugar by the side of it.
-- And please don't think I am doing you a service; quite the contrary, as soon as you came in, I saw how you could help me; to begin with, I am weak in spell-ing, and secondly, I am sometimes utterly adrift in German, so that I make it up as I go along for the most part.
-- he said timidly at last in a weak voice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only said-' 'You only said something weak andinconsiderate,' he replied.
-- Agnes says'No,' but I say 'Yes,' and tell her that she little thinks what stores ofknowledge have been mastered by the wonderful being, at whoseplace she thinks I, even I, weak aspirant, may arrive in time.
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