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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a disadvantage to the lad; for the kinder among us did not wish to fret the master, so we humoured his partiality; and that humouring was rich nourishment to the child's pride and black tempers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The air was 'Away with melancholy' a composition, which, when it is played very slowly on the flute, in bed, with the further disadvantage of being performed by a gentleman but imperfectly acquainted with the instrument, who repeats one note a great many times before he can find the next, has not a lively effect.
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:
-- Here the struggle was protracted, arduous and seemingly of doubtful issue; the Delawares, though none of them fell, beginning to bleed freely, in consequence of the disadvantage at which they were held.
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