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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a moment they all sat silent, gazing at this frail relic, wondering if it told the tale of sad disaster, or brought some trifling message from a frolic-loving sailor, who had flung it into the sea to amuse himself when he had nothing better to do.
-- "I dare say this frail concern has made a long voyage, protected by this strong covering."
-- In the distance, drifting from south to north, carried along by the impetuous torrent, they saw trees torn up by the roots, twisted branches, roofs torn off, destroyed RANCHOS, planks of sheds stolen by the deluge from ESTANCIAS, carcasses of drowned animals, blood-stained skins, and on a shaky tree a complete family of jaguars, howling and clutching hold of their frail raft.
-- The breeze blew gently from the northwest, and a slight swell rocked the frail craft.
-- The sail was spread, and the frail structure commenced its progress toward the land, aided by wind and tide.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This poor feeble boy of eighteen exhausted by disease looked for all the world as weak and frail as a leaflet torn from its par-ent tree and trembling in the breeze; but no sooner had his eye swept over his audience, for the first time during the whole of the last hour, than the most contemptuous, the most haughty expression of repugnance lighted up his face.
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：
-- So soon as Cora and Alice were seated, the scout, with-out regarding the element, directed Heyward to support one side of the frail vessel, and posting himself at the other, they bore it up against the stream, followed by the deject-ed owner of the dead foal.
-- The Indians warily re-traced their steps toward the place they had left, when the scout, placing his pole against a rock, by a powerful shove, sent his frail bark directly into the turbulent stream.
-- Forbidden to stir even a hand, and almost afraid to breath, lest they should expose the frail fabric to the fury of the stream, the passengers watched the glancing waters in feverish suspense.
-- The keen weapon cut the war plume from the scalping tuft of Uncas, and passed through the frail wall of the lodge as though it were hurled from some formidable engine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No!the storm did not abate, and neither Jonathan Forster nor his companions dreamed of confronting it in that frail car.
-- It was very evident that Lincoln Island was at such a distance from every country or island that it would be too hazardous to attempt to reach one in a frail boat.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And besides, they looked so frail that I could fancy myself flinging the whole dozen of them about like ninepins.
-- Then one of them suddenly asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children asked me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm!It let loose the judgment I had suspended upon their clothes, their frail light limbs, and fragile features.
-- Instead were these frail creatures who had forgotten their high ancestry, and the white Things of which I went in terror.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first I trembled at the thought that this frail partition might break, but strong bands of copper bound them, giving an almost infinite power of resistance.
-- To tempt the sea in a frail boat was certain destruction.
-- Like you, I am willing to live obscure, in the frail hope of bequeathing one day, to future time, the result of my labours.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was no paler and but littler thinner than in the autumn, yet there was a strange, transparent look about it, as if the mor-tal was being slowly refined away, and the immortal shining through the frail flesh with an indescribably pathetic beau-ty.
-- With the wreck of her frail body, Beth's soul grew strong, and though she said little, those about her felt that she was ready, saw that the first pilgrim called was likewise the fittest, and waited with her on the shore, trying to see the Shining Ones coming to receive her when she crossed the river.
-- Jo frowned upon that piece of extravagance, and asked why he didn't buy a frail of dated, a cask of raisins, and a bag of almonds, and be done with it?
-- As Amy spoke, a great tear dropped on the golden hair of the sleeping child in her arms, for her one well-beloved daughter was a frail little creature and the dread of losing her was the shadow over Amy's sunshine.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As now he thus vainly strove, the jaw slipped from him; the frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain, and locked themselves fast again in the sea, midway between the two floating wrecks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!The black teapot, being very small and easily filled, ran over while Mrs. Corney was moralising; and the water slightly scalded Mrs. Corney's hand.
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