incapable是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 无能力的; 无资格的,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《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, inca-pable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
-- Now, you know me; you know I am incapable of all the higher and better flights of men.
-- He was quite incapable of any compassionate feeling about the boy, or about his fate.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he repented of his conduct.
-- Both of them, repeating over and over again the same strained movement, were in a perfect frenzy of toil, and were incapable of shifting their position and at the same time watching what was before them.
-- said Levin, blissfully dropping his eyelids and drawing deep breaths after finishing his dinner, and absolutely incapable of recalling what their conversation yesterday was about.
-- Some of the very peasants who had been most active in wrangling with him over the hay, some whom he had treated with contumely, and who had tried to cheat him, those very peasants had greeted him goodhumoredly, and evidently had not, were incapable of having any feeling of rancor against him, any regret, any recollection even of having tried to deceive him.
-- He knows that, and knows that I am incapable of doing that."
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:
-- He thought of nothing and was incapable of thinking; but he felt suddenly in his whole be-ing that he had no more freedom of thought, no will, and that everything was suddenly and irrevocably decided.
-- Dark agonising ideas rose in his mind the idea that he was mad and that at that mo-ment he was incapable of reasoning, of protecting himself, that he ought perhaps to be doing something utterly differ-ent from what he was now doing.
-- He was of course incapable of reflecting that it might perhaps be far better not to re-store the axe at all, but to drop it later on in somebody's yard.
-- And though he felt incapable of clear judgment, the idea seemed to him a sound one.
-- You laugh!That's because you are of incapable of getting away from prejudices.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I am sure when I think of thefellow now, my blood rises against him with the disinterestedindignation I should feel if I could have known all about himwithout having ever been in his power; but it rises hotly, because Iknow him to have been an incapable brute, who had no more rightto be possessed of the great trust he held, than to be Lord HighAdmiral, or Commander-in-Chief- in either of which capacities, itis probable, that he would have done infinitely less mischief.
-- In thiscondition he felt more incapable of finishing the Memorial thanever; and the harder he worked at it, the oftener that unlucky headof King Charles the First got into it.
-- Mr. Jorkins, notwithstanding his reputation in thefirm, was an easygoing, incapable sort of man, whose reputationout of doors was not calculated to back it up.
-- When I thought ofthe airy dreams of youth that are incapable of realisation, I thought 644of the better state preceding manhood that I had outgrown.
-- 'Theymay be incapable of it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Weston, always alert when business was to be done, and as incapable of procrastinating any evil that was inevitable, as of foreseeing any that was doubtful, said, 'It was time to go;' and the young man, though he might and did sigh, could not but agree, to take leave.
-- He had not left her long, by no means long enough for her to have the slightest inclination for thinking of any body else, when a letter was brought her from Randalls a very thick letter; she guessed what it must contain, and depre-cated the necessity of reading it. She was now in perfect charity with Frank Churchill; she wanted no explanations, she wanted only to have her thoughts to herself and as for understanding any thing he wrote, she was sure she was incapable of it. It must be waded through, however.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.
-- Her mild eyes seemed incapable of any severity or guile, and yet she has committed a murder.'
-- I listened to my father in silence and remained for some time incapable of offering any reply.
-- But the overflowing mis-ery I now felt, and the excess of agitation that I endured rendered me incapable of any exertion.
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