frail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 虚弱的, 脆弱的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Becom-ing immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout, who had now rejoined his master, made a wry grimace, as he thought of his magnificent, but too frail Indian shoes.
-- The young woman, who was seated aft, was profoundly affected as she looked out upon the ocean, darkening now with the twilight, on which she had ventured in so frail a vessel.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The frail and decent body was not comfortable in the board-lined whitewashed ward.
-- She sat quiet (a frail child, only up to one's shoulder, not nine minutes older than at marriage, nine years before), or she napped inoffensively, in the long living-room of their flat, while he worked over his dreary digit-infested books till one, till two, and she politely awoke to let him worry at her, "But look here now, I've got to keep up my research at the same time.
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：
-- 'Little mother Sofya Semyonovna, you are our dear, good little mother,' coarse branded criminals said to that frail little creature.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps this and her healthy enjoyment of walking andriding had turned him from her to the frail Melanie.
-- She's so frail and she doesn't realize it.
-- She's so frail and weak and you're so strong, Scarlett.
-- The crowd suddenly gave a lane for acareening carriage and through the lane came the frail and elegant Mrs. Elsing, standing up in the front of her victoria,reins in one hand, whip in the other.
-- He told me when they moved on that the girls would recover but your mother She was so frail, he said too frail to stand it all.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The railing was frail enough, but nothing to those which skirted the terrible winding staircase, that appeared, from where I stood, to ascend to the skies.
-- The guide went first, I have said, and when one of the slippery and frail supports broke from under his feet he had recourse to his usual monosyllabic way of speaking.
-- As we are totally incapable of steering our frail craft, we shall become the mere plaything of the storm, and it is acting the part of madmen if we, a second time, run any risk upon this dangerous and treacherous Central Sea."
-- We all took up our posts on the raft, and the sail being hoisted, Hans received his directions, and guided the frail bark towards Cape Saknussemm, as we had definitely named it.
-- We were subjected to the most violent shocks, whenever our sole dependence, a frail wooden raft, struck against the rocky sides of the channel.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was rather frail really.
-- Curiously full of vitality, but a little frail and quenched.
-- He was a more excited lover that night, with his strange, small boy's frail nakedness.
-- Under her frail petticoat she was naked.
-- But which room she was in, the woman who held the other end of the frail thread which drew him so mercilessly, that he did not know.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He never loved me, as I once half-hoped he might so frail we are, and so do the corrupt affections of the flesh war with our trusts and tasks; but he always respected me and ordered himself dutifully to me.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other gentlemen speculated with equal rashness in all sorts of frail trifles, and wandered helplessly about afterward, burdened with wax flowers, painted fans, filigree portfolios, and other useful and appropriate purchases.
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