fault是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 缺点, 毛病, 过错, (地质) 断层，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And whose fault was that?'
-- I say, when you began it, it was hard enough; not that I have any fault to find with Doc-tor Manette, except that he is not worthy of such a daughter, which is no imputation on him, for it was not to be expect-ed that anybody should be, under any circumstances.
-- My fault is, that I have been true to you.
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：
-- It is a great fault to have no taste for what is witty or amusing come, let us be men.'
-- 'That's much more interest-ing than real flowers!They are as exact as possible; there i not a fault in them, if they did not melt!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Go to her, sir; own your fault again.
-- But truly, truly, it's not my fault, or only my fault a little bit," she said, daintily drawling the words "a little bit."
-- Because--excuse me--of your stupid sale..." Stepan Arkadyevitch frowned good-humoredly, like one who feels himself teased and attacked for no fault of his own.
-- "Of my fault and my remorse I cannot speak, because..." She stopped again, finding no connection in her ideas.
-- "He's right that our system, that's to say of rational farming, doesn't answer, that the only thing that answers is the money-lender system, like that meek-looking gentleman's, or else the very simplest.... Whose fault is it?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, but it was still more the fault of the traitor who, in order to separate him from his master, and detain the latter at Hong Kong, had inveigled him into getting drunk!He now saw the detective's trick; and at this moment Mr. Fogg was certainly ruined, his bet was lost, and he himself perhaps arrested and imprisoned!At this thought Passepartout tore his hair.
-- It was my fault that ""I blame no one," returned Phileas Fogg, with perfect calmness.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Except in one or two courses--in my own I have no fault to find--you have been very inattentive.
-- But mind you, Tredgold, it's partly the fault of people like your Manufacturers' Association.
-- An old women died after treatment at the clinic, and the coroner hinted that it had been the fault of "our almighty health-officer's pet cub assistant."
-- It was Martin's most pitiful fault that he was not very kind to shy people and lonely people and stupid old people; he was not cruel to them, he simply was unconscious of them or so impatient of their fumbling that he avoided them.
-- She so joyfully demanded his finding some fault that, to give her the novel pleasure of being meek, he suggested that the centrifuge was inadequate.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even so, I could not please her; and then I lost my place too, and that through no fault of mine but through changes in the office; and then I did touch it!芒聙娄 It will be a year and a half ago soon since we found ourselves at last after many wanderings and numerous calamities in this magnificent capital, adorned with innumerable monuments.
-- This time it was through my own fault I lost it: for my weakness had come out芒聙娄.
-- 'I sometimes speak too much from the heart, so that Dou-nia finds fault with me芒聙娄.
-- 'Then this is my fault again,' said Luzhin, aggrieved.
-- Whose fault is it?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not my fault that sounusual an occurrence has taken place to-night.
-- And whenI'm too deaf, and too lame, and too blind, and too mumbly forwant of teeth, to be of any use at all, even to be found fault with,then I shall go to my Davy, and ask him to take me in.'
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