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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We must go and look for him, and look till we find him," he exclaimed, almost unable to keep back his tears.
-- Thalcave positively talked to the beast, and Thaouka understood perfectly, though unable to reply, for, after a great deal of arguing, the noble creature yielded, though he still champed the bit.
-- On rejoining their companions, they found Glenarvan busily engaged in conversation with the Indian, though apparently unable to make him understand.
-- It was doubtless against this that the BRITANNIA, dismasted and rudderless, had been unable to contend, and consequently been dashed against the coast, and broken in pieces.
-- Mary Grant saw it all from the brake, and in an agony of terror, speechless and almost unable even to see, stretched out her arms toward her little brother.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, for some space the revellers stood agape, unable to understand all that had been done in such haste.
-- He declares that he heard cries, but is unable to state from what direc-tion they came.
-- With all the good will in the world he may be unable to help you.
-- The second: 'Visited twenty-three hotels as directed, but sorry, to re-port unable to trace cut sheet of Times. CARTWRIGHT.'
-- I am conscious myself of a weight at my heart and a feeling of impending danger ever present danger, which is the more terrible because I am unable to define it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have always been an invalid and unable to learn much.
-- 'I, too, should have been unable to tear my eyes away,' said Aglaya.
-- Gania, too stood hat in hand ready to go; but seemed to be unable to tear his eyes away from the scene before him 'Get out, keep your distance!'
-- Varvara Ardalionovna married Ptitsin this winter, and it was said that the fact of Gania's retirement from busi-ness was the ultimate cause of the marriage, since Gania was now not only unable to support his family, but even re-quired help himself.
-- She even made some sort of confession to them, but they were unable to understand what it was about.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Less clever than she, he was naturally unable to comprehend her sensibility.
-- She feared that she would forget her lines, that she might be unable to master the feeling which she now felt concerning her own movements in the play.
-- When, in addition, a sharp temper was manifested, and to the process of shouldering him out of his authority was added a rousing intellectual kick, such as a sneer or a cynical laugh, he was unable to keep his temper.
-- Do you think I'll sit at home here and take your 'too busys' and 'can't come,' while you parade around and make out that I'm unable to come?
-- She wavered, totally unable to make a move.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Geppetto ran after him but was unable to catch him, for Pinocchio ran in leaps and bounds, his two wooden feet, as they beat on the stones of the street, making as much noise as twenty peasants in wooden shoes.
-- Pinocchio understood the answer in a twinkling, and, unable to restrain his tears, he jumped on his father's neck and kissed him over and over.
-- As soon as they entered the town, Pinocchio noticed that all the streets were filled with hairless dogs, yawning from hunger; with sheared sheep, trembling with cold; with combless chickens, begging for a grain of wheat; with large butterflies, unable to use their wings because they had sold all their lovely colors; with tailless peacocks, ashamed to show themselves; and with bedraggled pheasants, scuttling away hurriedly, grieving for their bright feathers of gold and silver, lost to them forever.
-- As he went, the pangs of hunger grew so strong that, unable to withstand them, he jumped into a field to pick a few grapes that tempted him.
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