unable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不能的， 不会的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Is there any particular and special reason for your being unable to do either?'
-- She had become familiar to me, when a gracious God restored my faculties; but, I am quite unable even to say how she had be-come familiar.
-- It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous dec-oration, and the Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his pocket, emulative of the no-ble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips.
-- And if you were shown a flock of birds, unable to fly, and were set upon them to strip them of their feathers for your own advantage, you would set upon the birds of the finest feathers; would you not?'
-- Darnay, unable to restrain himself any longer, touched Mr. Stryver on the shoulder, and said: 'I know the fellow.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should like to know how the weavers are getting on with my cloth,' said the Emperor to himself, after some lit-tle time had elapsed; he was, however, rather embarrassed, when he remembered that a simpleton, or one unfit for his office, would be unable to see the manufacture.
-- He was unable to find the bridge: there was no railway either.
-- In the greatest perplexity, he now came out of the last heart in the row; he was unable to put his thoughts in order, and fancied that his too lively imagination had run away with him.
-- 48 Andersen's Fairy Tales The copying-clerk turned round and spoke awhile with the man about the reports and legal documents in ques-tion; but when he had finished, and his eye fell again on the Shoes, he was unable to say whether those to the left or those to the right belonged to him.
-- It was bright day, and he was now quite unable to call to mind his dream; that, however, was not at all necessary, for one may not know what the future will bring.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, it's all the same to me," said Levin, unable to suppress a smile.
-- Suppose you're married, you love your wife, but you're fascinated by another woman..." "Excuse me, but I'm absolutely unable to comprehend how...just as I can't comprehend how I could now, after my dinner, go straight to a baker's shop and steal a roll."
-- And, however much it was instilled into the princess that in our times young people ought to arrange their lives for themselves, she was unable to believe it, just as she would have been unable to believe that, at any time whatever, the most suitable playthings for children five years old ought to be loaded pistols.
-- She laughed contemptuously and took up her book again; but now she was definitely unable to follow what she read.
-- Still unable to realize what had happened, Vronsky tugged at his mare's reins.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was just now manifesting unmistakable signs of impatience, nervously pacing up and down, and unable to stand still for a moment.
-- "Is it possible," resumed Phileas Fogg, his voice betraying not the least emotion, "that these barbarous customs still exist in India, and that the English have been unable to put a stop to them?"
-- Passepartout remained on deck as long as the tempest lasted, being unable to remain quiet below, and taking it into his head to aid the progress of the ship by lending a hand with the crew.
-- Fishes are, of course, unable to live in it, and those which descend through the Jordan, the Weber, and other streams soon perish.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clif was occasionally irritating; he hated open windows; he talked of dirty socks; he sang "Some die of Diabetes" when Martin was studying; and he was altogether unable to say anything directly.
-- He could at times take the lead away from Bert, whom he considered useful but slightly indiscreet, and unable to grasp the "full value of a dollar."
-- IV Leora attended the Zenith University of Business Administration and Finance, which title indicated that it was a large and quite reasonably bad school for stenographers, bookkeepers, and such sons of Zenith brewers and politicians as were unable to enter even state universities.
-- Through a fortnight, while the Norbloms agonized over deciding to do what they had long ago decided to do, Martin waited, unable to begin work.
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