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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he had any fault it was his being so intensely Scotch from top to toe, a Caledonian of the Caledonians, an obstinate stickler for all the ancient customs of his country.
-- He has been two months now in my service, and I have never had once to find fault with him.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fault from what I hear may not have been entirely on one side.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Whose fault is it that they are all miserable, that they don't know how to live, though they have fifty or sixty years of life before them?
-- Whose fault is it that a man has not got millions of money like Rothschild?
-- If he has life, all this must be in his power!Whose fault is it that he does not know how to live his life?
-- I used to think how nice it would be to lie in my coffin, and have them all weeping over me and saying it was all their fault for being so cruel, and all that what are you smiling at?'
-- 'Whose fault is it that you have been as mad as a March hare all this week?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ulysses,' said he, 'noble son of Laertes, excellent in all good coun-sel, I have neither fault to find nor orders to give you, for I know your heart is right, and that you and I are of a mind.
-- Alexandrus answered, 'Hector, why find fault when there is no one to find fault with?
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But for all that, it is the fault of this new-grown tim-ber.
-- 'Well, I got one cut across the chest once, but that wasn't Dick's fault ' 'A lot I should have cared whose fault it was, if it hurt!'
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：
-- 'Was it the fault of Le Renard that his head was not made of rock?
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：
-- I have been able to invest them with none of those characteristics which make the persons of a book exist with a real life of their own; and, wondering if the fault is mine, I rack my brains to remember idiosyncrasies which might lend them vividness.
-- "Then, isn't it monstrous to leave her in this fashion, after seventeen years of married life, without a fault to find with her?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The possible fault which he attributed to errors in the observation was, it may be seen, of five degrees on both sides, which, at sixty miles to a degree, would give an error of three hundred miles in latitude and longitude for the exact position.
-- "But, Pencroft," replied Neb, "it wasn't our fault that the beast got away; as I tell you, we had turned it over on its back!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So saying, Mr Quilp put his hat on and took himself off, and Mrs Quilp, who was afflicted beyond measure by the recollection of the part she had just acted, shut herself up in her chamber, and smothering her head in the bed-clothes bemoaned her fault more bitterly than many less tender-hearted persons would have mourned a much greater offence; for, in the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article, which will bear a deal of stretching and adapt itself to a great variety of circumstances.
-- Certainly if there were any fault in Mr Codlin's usual deportment, it was that he rather underdid his kindness to those about him, than overdid it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's the fault of this piece of wood."
-- "Believe me, your Honor, the fault was not mine."
-- Pinocchio's only fault was that he had too many friends.
-- "But the fault is not mine.
-- Believe me, little Dormouse, the fault is all Lamp-Wick's."
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