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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was taking my coffee and roll in the morning, before going to theCommonsand I may observe in this place that it is surprising howmuch coffee Mrs. Crupp used, and how weak it was, considering-when Steerforth himself walked in, to my unbounded joy.
-- Thesimpering fellow with the weak legs, who had taken Agnes down,stated the question more decisively yet, I thought.
-- I should have loved him so well still- thoughhe fascinated me no longer- I should have held in so muchtenderness the memory of my affection for him, that I think Ishould have been as weak as a spiritwounded child, in all but theentertainment of a thought that we could ever be reunited.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
-- 'Our amiable young man is a very weak young man, if this be the first occasion of his carrying through a resolu-tion to do right against the will of others.
-- I have not the least idea of his be-ing a weak young man: I feel sure that he is not.
-- There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities. No, I am perfectly sure that he is not trifling or silly.'
-- In Frank's last letter she complained, he said, of being too weak to get into her con-servatory without having both his arm and his uncle's!This, you know, speaks a great degree of weakness but now she is so impatient to be in town, that she means to sleep only two nights on the road. So Frank writes word.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's heavy chairs for the stout, weak and wiry ones for the slender; great watches, getting on to the size of clocks, to stand upon the chimbley-piece."
-- 'Tis a poor thing to be sixty, when there's people far past four-score a boast weak as water."
-- When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
-- Weakness is doubly weak by being new.
-- "He is not bad at all.... My poor life and heart, how weak I am!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Michonneau, that elderly young lady, screened her weak eyes from the daylight by a soiled green silk shade with a rim of brass, an object fit to scare away the Angel of Pity himself.
-- Though Goriot's eyes seemed to have shrunk in their sockets, though they were weak and watery, owing to some glandular affection which compelled him to wipe them continually, she considered him to be a very gentlemanly and pleasant-looking man.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He manifested the greatest eagerness to be upon deck to watch for the sledge which had before appeared; but I have persuaded him to remain in the cabin, for he is far too weak to sustain the rawness of the atmo-sphere.
-- 'I agree with you,' replied the stranger; 'we are unfash-ioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves such a friend ought to be do not 20 Frankensteinlend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.
-- And poor Clerval ' The name of my unfortunate and murdered friend was an agitation too great to be endured in my weak state; I shed tears.
-- I had already been three months in prison, and although I was still weak and in continual danger of a relapse, I was obliged to travel nearly a hundred miles to the country town where the court was held.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was difficult, for Scarlett had not a subtle bone in her body; and Gerald was so much likeher he never failed to penetrate her weak subterfuges, even as she penetrated his.
-- Shecaught hold of the back of the chair, her knees going weak under her, as Rhett Butler rose from the sofa where he hadbeen lying and made her a bow of exaggerated politeness.
-- Now she could doalmost as she pleased, Pittypat being the weak vessel that she was.
-- She's so frail and weak and you're so strong, Scarlett.
-- But lying weak and forlorn in the bed,she could only nod.
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