brittle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 易碎的, 脆弱的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He heard the steps of Stepan Arkadyevitch, mistaking them for the tramp of the horses in the distance; he heard the brittle sound of the twigs on which he had trodden, taking this sound for the flying of a grouse.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aunt Pauline and her husband, a little old man, with a formal, brittle courtesy and the absent air of one living inan older age, lived on a plantation on the river, far more isolated than Tara.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Nautilus entered the brittle mass like a wedge, and split it with frightful crackings.
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：
-- At the same time he was finely and acutely aware of Mademoiselle's neat, brittle finality of form.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, perceiving in Elizabeth no inclination of reply-ing, she added, 'Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This time I found much employ-ment, and very suitable also to the time, for I found great occasion for many things which I had no way to furnish myself with but by hard labour and constant application; particularly I tried many ways to make myself a basket, but all the twigs I could get for the purpose proved so brittle that they would do nothing.
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