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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Barkis is agood plain creatur',' said Peggotty, 'and if I tried to do my duty byhim, I think it would be my fault if I wasn't- if I wasn't prettycomfortable,' said Peggotty, laughing heartily.
-- Good-bye,Mr. Copperfield!Take care of yourself, Jockey of Norfolk!How Ihave been rattling on!It's all the fault of you two wretches.
-- 'Mas'r Davy,' exclaimed Ham, in abroken voice, 'it ain't no fault of yournand I am far from laying ofit to you- but his name is Steerforth, and he's a damned villain!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Knightley loves to find fault with me, you know in a joke it is all a joke.
-- 'I have not a fault to find with her person,' he replied.
-- I could not help being provoked; for after all my pains, and when I had really made a very good likeness of it (Mrs. Weston and I were quite 54 Emmaagreed in thinking it very like) only too handsome too flattering but that was a fault on the right side after all this, came poor dear Isabella's cold approbation of 'Yes, it was a little like but to be sure it did not do him justice.'
-- It is the fault of her face that she has them not.'
-- She could never see a fault in any of them.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It was not exactly the fault of the hut," she observed in a tone which showed her to be that novelty among women one who finished a thought before beginning the sentence which was to convey it.
-- Her emblazoned fault was to be too pronounced in her objections, and not sufficiently overt in her likings.
-- 'Twas blush, blush with him, almost as much as 'tis with me not but that 'tis a fault in me!"
-- But I can't help seeing that if you choose from a feeling of pity, and, as you say, a wish to make amends, to make a bargain with me for a far-ahead time an agreement which will set all things right and make me happy, late though it may be there is no fault to be found with you as a woman.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor India, thought Scarlett, she's had so much trouble keeping house since her mother died that she's neverhad the chance to catch any beau except Stuart Tarleton, and it certainly wasn't my fault if he thought I was prettierthan she.
-- But then the twinge passed with the comforting thought that it wasn't her fault if other girlscouldn't keep their men.
-- "It's his fault anyway.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course you'll go wrong somehow, but that's no fault of mine."
-- If there's been any fault at all to-day, it's mine.
-- You won't find half so much fault in me if you think of me in my forge dress, with my hammer in my hand, or even my pipe.
-- You won't find half so much fault in me if, supposing as you should ever wish to see me, you come and put your head in at the forge window and see Joe the blacksmith, there, at the old anvil, in the old burnt apron, sticking to the old work.
-- Saving his troublesome sense of having been "low" on one occasion since his return,--on which point he began to hold forth to Herbert, the moment my revelation was finished,--he had no perception of the possibility of my finding any fault with my good fortune.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The style is very plain and simple; and the only fault I find is, that the author, after the manner of travel-lers, is a little too circumstantial.
-- I hear some of our sea Yahoos find fault with my sea-language, as not proper in many parts, nor now in use.
-- 'If a struldbrug happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore; for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife.
-- He then began to find fault with other parts of my body: 'the flatness of my face, the prominence of my nose, mine eyes 306 Gulliver's Travelsplaced directly in front, so that I could not look on either side without turning my head: that I was not able to feed myself, without lifting one of my fore-feet to my mouth: and therefore nature had placed those joints to answer that ne-cessity.
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