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《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They don't mean to harm you; whatever they make you do, is no fault of yours.
-- 'It's no fault of yours, if I am not!You'd never have me anything else, if you had your will, except now;--the humour doesn't suit you, doesn't it?'
-- If he is alive, I can make him one from this time; and, if--if--' said the Jew, drawing nearer to the other,--'it's not likely, mind,--but if the worst comes to the worst, and he is dead--' 'It's no fault of mine if he is!'
-- We must make the best of it; and if bad be the best, it is no fault of ours.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You never see a fault in anybody.
-- But you have chosen your fault well.
-- Not that I mean to find fault with YOU, for such things I know are all chance in this world.
-- She examined into their em-ployments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently; found fault with the arrangement of the furni-ture; or detected the housemaid in negligence; and if she accepted any refreshment, seemed to do it only for the sake of finding out that Mrs. Collins's joints of meat were too large for her family.
-- Of Mr. Darcy it was now a matter of anxiety to think well; and, as far as their acquaintance reached, there was no fault to find.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the few-est disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, lux-ury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the nat-ural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the hand-maids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embar-rassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with per-plexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sen-sibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly, After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most af-fectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the sta-tion of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus dis-charged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persua-sions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have three unanswerable reasons for disliking Colonel Brandon; he threatened me with rain when I wanted it to be fine; he has found fault with the hanging of my curricle, and I cannot persuade him to buy my brown mare.
-- "Well, and whose fault is that?
-- Though uncertain that any one were to blame, she found fault with every absent friend.
-- Sincerely wish you happy in your choice, and it shall not be my fault if we are not always good friends, as our near relationship now makes proper.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the last analysis, that would scarcely be called the fault of the decorations, but rather of the innate trend of the mind.
-- "And whose fault is that?"
-- I did go with Mr. Hurstwood, but whose fault was it?
-- "I couldn't if I wanted to, but whose fault is it?
-- The one fault of most men is that they always want to throw her wide open.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to any- body, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it.
-- Anyways, they stayed away from us, and if my building the fire never fooled them it warn't no fault of mine.
-- It ain't my fault I warn't born a duke, it ain't your fault you warn't born a king so what's the use to worry?
-- If the profits has turned out to be none, lackin' considable, and none to carry, is it my fault any more'n it's yourn?'
-- He scold-ed us for everything, and we couldn't seem to do nothing right; he found fault with every little thing.
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