Inability

例句:

• The English and the Germans (he indignantly declared) were always reviling the Italians for their inability to cultivate the higher kinds of music. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Left to herself, Gerty mused distressfully upon her friend's plight, and her own inability to relieve it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It seems as if he must go mad in the necessity he feels for haste and the inability under which he labours of expressing to do what or to fetch whom. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It's a mistake due to poverty of imagination and inability to learn from experience. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• When this is done, it is generally the effect of fraud, and not of inability; and the longest apprenticeship can give no security against fraud. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• All the stultification of the stand-pat mind may be described as inability, and perhaps unwillingness, to nourish a fruitful choice of issues. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The weight, therefore, of an independent empire, which you seem certain of our inability to bear, will not be so great as you imagine. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The facility of borrowing delivers them from the embarrassment which this fear and inability would otherwise occasion. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The inability thus to solace her outraged feelings gave her a paralyzing sense of insignificance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Most of us have at times been annoyed by the inability to secure water on an upper story, because of the drawing off of a supply on a lower floor. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There was no expression of surprise, no assumption of an inability to understand his meaning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Calling on his nearest friend the next morning for even a pair of suspenders, Mr. Andrews was met with regrets of inability, because the burglars had also been there. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was a most affectionate letter, and expressed great and true regret for his inability to attend. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The wound, and consequent inability of Argyropylo, caused Raymond to be the first in command. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The weakness I have suggested is one that all statesmen share in some degree: an inability to interpret adequately the world they govern. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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