disadvantage是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 不利， 不利地位，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XXIII IN DRURY LANE "But you begin now to realise," said the Invisible Man, "the full disadvantage of my condition.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That disadvantage is notdiminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of 523stipendiary emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly dueand payable.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The quick-witted child of the Charente felt the disadvantage at which he was placed beside this tall, slender dandy, with the clear gaze and the pale face, one of those men who would ruin orphan children without scruple.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His knowledge of her secret gave him an advantage over her that wasexasperating, so she would have to change that by putting him at a disadvantage somehow.
-- A widow with a child was at a disadvantage with these pretty minxes, she thought But in these exciting days herwidowhood and her motherhood weighed less heavily upon her than ever before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not with me then, as it was in later life, when I fell into the society of the Passions, and compared them with Collins and Wopsle, rather to the disadvantage of both gentlemen.
-- My dread always was, that this knowledge on her part laid me under a heavy disadvantage with her pride, and made me the subject of a rebellious struggle in her bosom.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They would often strip me naked from top to toe, and lay me 144 Gulliver's Travelsat full length in their bosoms; wherewith I was much dis-gusted because, to say the truth, a very offensive smell came from their skins; which I do not mention, or intend, to the disadvantage of those excellent ladies, for whom I have all manner of respect; but I conceive that my sense was more acute in proportion to my littleness, and that those illustri-ous persons were no more disagreeable to their lovers, or to each other, than people of the same quality are with us in England.
-- I ran sideling upon it, that way and this, as fast as I could, banging the proper keys with my two sticks, and made a shift to play a jig, to the great satisfaction of both their majesties; but it was the most violent exercise I ever underwent; and yet I could not strike above sixteen keys, nor consequently play the bass and treble together, as other artists do; which was a great disadvantage to my per-156 Gulliver's Travelsformance.
-- The language of this country being always upon the flux, the struldbrugs of one age do not understand those of an-other; neither are they able, after two hundred years, to hold any conversation (farther than by a few general words) with their neighbours the mortals; and thus they lie under the disadvantage of living like foreigners in their own country.'
-- The second disadvantage is, that my lawyer must proceed with great caution, or else he will be reprimanded by the judges, 315and abhorred by his brethren, as one that would lessen the practice of the law.
-- 'He was the more confirmed in this opinion, because, he observed, that as I agreed in every feature of my body with other Yahoos, except where it was to my real disadvantage in point of strength, speed, and activity, the shortness of my claws, and some other particulars where nature had no part; so from the representation I had given him of our lives, our manners, and our actions, he found as near a resemblance 330 Gulliver's Travelsin the disposition of our minds.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bred at a disadvantage towards the society in which he has his part to play, he rushes into these extremes for himself, from opposite extremes that have long been forced with the very best intentions we have no doubt upon him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I pointed out to your sister the plain state of the case; the impossibility of the Society in which we moved recognising the Society in which she moved though charming, I have no doubt; the immense disadvantage at which she would consequently place the family she had so high an opinion of, upon which we should find ourselves compelled to look down with contempt, and from which (socially speaking) we should feel obliged to recoil with abhorrence.
-- Mrs Merdle's first husband had been a colonel, under whose auspices the bosom had entered into competition with the snows of North America, and had come off at little disadvantage in point of whiteness, and at none in point of coldness.
-- As a much shorter man than the visitor, Mr Flintwinch was at the physical disadvantage of being thus disagreeably leered at from a height; and as he went first down the staircase, and was usually a step or two lower than the other, this disadvantage was at the time increased.
-- There was no other orphan among us; and I perceived (here was the first disadvantage of not being a fool) that they conciliated me in an insolent pity, and in a sense of superiority.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if we Southern whale-fishers are not so snugly housed aloft as Captain Sleet and his Greenlandmen were; yet that disadvantage is greatly counter-balanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those seductive seas in which we South fishers mostly float.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It may perhaps be pleasant,' replied Charlotte, 'to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded.
-- Indeed, Mr. Darcy, it is very ungenerous in you to mention all that you knew to my disadvantage in Hertford-shire and, give me leave to say, very impolitic too for it is provoking me to retaliate, and such things may come out as will shock your relations to hear.'
-- There were few people on whose secrecy she would have more confidently depended; but, at the same time, there was no one whose knowledge of a sister's frailty would have mortified her so much not, however, from any fear of disadvantage from it individually to herself, for, at any rate, there seemed a gulf impassable between them.
-- From the further disadvantage of Lydia's society she was of course carefully kept, and though Mrs. Wickham frequently invited her to come and stay with her, with the promise of balls and young men, her father would never consent to her going.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime, I in part settled myself here; for, first of all, I married, and that not either to my disadvantage or dissatisfaction, and had three children, two sons and one daughter; but my wife dying, and my nephew coming home with good success from a voyage to Spain, my inclination to go abroad, and his importunity, prevailed, and engaged me to go in his ship as a private trader to the East Indies; this was in the year 1694.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I flatter myself," replied Elinor, "that even under the disadvantage of better rooms and a broader staircase, you will hereafter find your own house as faultless as you now do this."
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