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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aeneas though he had avoided the spear, stood still, blinded with fear and grief because the weapon had gone so near him; then Achilles sprang furiously upon him, with a cry as of death and with his keen blade drawn, and Aeneas seized a great stone, so huge that two men, as men now are, would be unable to lift it, but Aeneas wielded it quite easily.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Huxter in great pain still unable to describe what he saw.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a curious thing, by the bye, for which I am quite unable to account, that these weird creatures the females, I mean had in the earlier days of my stay an instinctive sense of their own repulsive clumsiness, and displayed in consequence a more than human regard for the decency and decorum of extensive costume.
-- Though they evidently felt ashamed of themselves, every now and then I would come upon one or another run-ning on toes and finger-tips, and quite unable to recover the vertical attitude.
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：
-- When assured that all was still, and unable to detect, even by the aid of his practiced senses, any sign of his approaching foes, he would deliberately re-sume his slow and guarded progress.
-- Unable to discover any new victim, these diligent workers of vengeance soon ap- proached their male prisoners, pronouncing the name 'La Longue Carabine,' with a fierceness that could not be easily mistaken.
-- Unable longer to foil an enemy so alert and vigilant, he threw his arms about him, and succeed-ed in pinning the limbs of the other to his side, with an iron grasp, but one that was far too exhausting to himself to continue long.
-- 'Tis most unfortunately true, sir,' said Duncan, unable any longer to prevent his eyes from sinking to the floor in embarrassment.
-- Unable any longer to quiet his uneasiness, Duncan spoke in a low voice to the scout, requesting him to ascend the mound to the place where he stood.
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：
-- When I had asked him what first gave him the idea of being a painter, he was unable or unwilling to tell me.
-- He gave me a look of appeal, so that I might put things right, but, unable to control myself, I shook with helpless laughter.
-- Knowing at what time his wife did her shopping, one day, unable any longer to bear not seeing her, he waylaid her in the street.
-- She has a small mind, and she resents the abstract which she is unable to grasp.
-- We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The car was only a sort of willow basket, unable to float, and there was not the slightest possibility of maintaining it on the surface of the sea.
-- The Governor of Richmond for a long time had been unable to communicate with General Lee, and he very much wished to make known to him the situation of the town, so as to hasten the march of the army to their relief.
-- From time to time the castaways stopped and shouted, then listened for some response from the ocean, for they thought that if the engineer had landed, and they had been near to the place, they would have heard the barking of the dog Top, even should Harding himself have been unable to give any sign of existence.
-- "Perhaps he has fainted or is wounded, and unable to reply directly, so we will not despair.
-- again asked Pencroft, unable to make up his mind to retire from the spot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' If he ever does,' added the child, unable to restrain her tears.
-- An indistinct idea he had, that the child was desolate and in want of help; for he often drew her to his bosom and bade her be of good cheer, saying that they would not desert each other; but he seemed unable to contemplate their real position more distinctly, and was still the listless, passionless creature that suffering of mind and body had left him.
-- The hero's wife and one child, the hobby-horse, the doctor, the foreign gentleman who not being familiar with the language is unable in the representation to express his ideas otherwise than by the utterance of the word 'Shallabalah' three distinct times, the radical neighbour who will by no means admit that a tin bell is an organ, the executioner, and the devil, were all here.
-- Mr Codlin, still doomed to contemplate the harsh realities of existence, was packing among his linen the candle-ends which had been saved from the previous night's performance; while his companion received the compliments of all the loungers in the stable-yard, who, unable to separate him from the master-mind of Punch, set him down as next in importance to that merry outlaw, and loved him scarcely less.
-- It was some gratification to Mr Quilp to find, as he took his place upon the roof, that Kit's mother was alone inside; from which circumstance he derived in the course of the journey much cheerfulness of spirit, inasmuch as her solitary condition enabled him to terrify her with many extraordinary annoyances; such as hanging over the side of the coach at the risk of his life, and staring in with his great goggle eyes, which seemed in hers the more horrible from his face being upside down; dodging her in this way from one window to another; getting nimbly down whenever they changed horses and thrusting his head in at the window with a dismal squint: which ingenious tortures had such an effect upon Mrs Nubbles, that she was quite unable for the time to resist the belief that Mr Quilp did in his own person represent and embody that Evil Power, who was so vigorously attacked at Little Bethel, and who, by reason of her backslidings in respect of Astley's and oysters, was now frolicsome and rampant.
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