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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was mute with horror and unable to move.
-- Nothing more until the moment when, like lightning, I saw the undaunted Captain hanging on to one of the creature's fins, struggling, as it were, hand to hand with the monster, and dealing successive blows at his enemy, yet still unable to give a decisive one.
-- "To overrun these deep regions where man has never trod!Look, Captain, look at these magnificent rocks, these uninhabited grottoes, these lowest receptacles of the globe, where life is no longer possible!What unknown sights are here!Why should we be unable to preserve a remembrance of them?"
-- I exclaimed, unable to repress a gesture of incredulity.
-- It is possible, if the sea exists at the South Pole, that it may be covered; and, consequently, we shall be unable to come to the surface."
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：
-- she asked, quite unable to interpret his phrases.
-- For with her mind she was unable to attend to his words, he caught her, as it were, beneath all her defences, and destroyed her with some insidious occult potency.
-- It was strange to see how Gudrun clung with heavy, desperate passion to Ursula, yet smiled with subtle malevolence against her, how Ursula accepted silently, unable to provide any more either for herself or for the other, but dangerous and indomitable, refuting her grief.
-- He was silent for a long time, unable to be in communication with her while she was in this state of opposition.
-- "Shortlands! Heavens!Think of living there, one week, then the next, and then the third "No, I won't think of it it is too much "And she broke off, really terrified, really unable to bear any more.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being unable to remove the chain, I jumped over, and, running up the flagged causeway bordered with straggling gooseberry bushes, knocked vainly for admittance, till my knuckles tingled and the dogs howled.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But being unable to account for it all, she did the customary thing for her--banished all these recollections from her mind, and endeavored to obscure them by a life of dissipation.
-- Is she putting me to a test, or is she really unable to forgive me?
-- "And what if all my ideas are due to an over-wrought imagination, and I should be unable to live up to them?
-- he asked himself, and, being unable to find answers to these questions, he was stricken with such sadness and despair as he had rarely experienced before, and he fell into that deep slumber which had been habitual with him after heavy losses at cards.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remarked, indeed, a clumsy swaying of the machine, for which I was unable to account.
-- For my own part I was unable to come to a conclusion.
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