shortcoming是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 短处， 缺点，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that quarter of the town, however, scarce-ly any shortcoming in dress would have created surprise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His obtuseness on the great Testimonial question was not calculated to awaken admiration in the paternal breast, but had rather a tendency to give offence in that sensitive quarter, and to be regarded as a positive shortcoming in point of gentlemanly feeling.
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