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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Did you suppose he was stupider than yourself, and was incapable of forming his own opinions, or what?'
-- I believe animals are incapable of feeling supernatural fright if I have been rightly informed, but at this moment there appeared to me to be something more than ordinary about Norma's ter-ror, as though it must be supernatural; and as though she felt, just as I did myself, that this reptile was connected with some mysterious secret, some fatal omen.
-- But the Epanchins, one and all, believed that Muishkin, in his simplicity of mind, was quite incapable of realizing that they could be feeling any anxiety on his ac-count, and for this reason they all looked at him with dread and uneasiness.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a matter of fact I was worked out; the intense stress of nearly four years' continuous work left me incapable of any strength of feeling.
-- At first I was as incapable as a swathed infant stepping with limbs I could not see.
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：
-- As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular and solitary with the Indi-ans; though, for the honor of our common nature, neither are incapable of producing them.
-- The warriors, who were already armed and painted, became as still as if they were incapable of any uncommon burst of emotion.
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：
-- Perhaps she knew with her intelligence that the chains she forged only aroused his instinct of destruction, as the plate-glass window makes your fingers itch for half a brick; but her heart, incapable of reason, made her continue on a course she knew was fatal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this fearful state of things, distracted by the sudden appearance of Kit, and fascinated by the eyes of the preacher, the miserable Jacob sat bolt upright, wholly incapable of motion, strongly disposed to cry but afraid to do so, and returning his pastor's gaze until his infant eyes seemed starting from their sockets.
-- He had seen them, but appeared quite incapable of interest or curiosity.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A little way up the hill, for instance, was a great heap of granite, bound together by masses of aluminium, a vast labyrinth of precipitous walls and crumpled heaps, amidst which were thick heaps of very beautiful pagoda-like plants nettles possibly but wonderfully tinted with brown about the leaves, and incapable of stinging.
-- I felt giddy and incapable of facing the return journey.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Nemo's hand contracted, and some tears glistened in his eyes, which I thought incapable of shedding any.
-- I recognised some euphorbias, with the caustic sugar coming from them; heliotropes, quite incapable of justifying their name, sadly drooped their clusters of flowers, both their colour and perfume half gone.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was incapable of soulfulness and tragedy, which she detested so profoundly.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus interrupting herself, the housekeeper rose, and proceeded to lay aside her sewing; but I felt incapable of moving from the hearth, and I was very far from nodding.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Caroline is incapable of wil-fully deceiving anyone; and all that I can hope in this case is that she is deceiving herself.'
-- 'My dearest Lizzy will, I am sure, be incapable of tri-umphing in her better judgement, at my expense, when I confess myself to have been entirely deceived in Miss Bing-ley's regard for me.
-- She read with an ea-gerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not that I did not believe the savages had fre-quented the island even all the while, and might have been several hundreds of them at times on shore there; but I had never known it, and was incapable of any apprehensions about it; my satisfaction was perfect, though my danger was the same, and I was as happy in not knowing my danger as if I had never really been exposed to it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For their brother's sake, too, for the sake of his own heart, she rejoiced; and she reproached herself for being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity.
-- I cannot remember the time when I did not love Eliza; and my affection for her, as we grew up, was such, as perhaps, judging from my present forlorn and cheerless gravity, you might think me incapable of having ever felt.
-- He is the most fearful of giving pain, of wounding expectation, and the most incapable of being selfish, of any body I ever saw.
-- Edward seemed a second Willoughby; and acknowledging as Elinor did, that she HAD loved him most sincerely, could she feel less than herself!As for Lucy Steele, she considered her so totally unamiable, so absolutely incapable of attaching a sensible man, that she could not be persuaded at first to believe, and afterwards to pardon, any former affection of Edward for her.
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