miniature是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 缩小的模型， 缩图a. 微型的， 缩小的，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：
-- Behind this miniature town there lay 1,500 hectares of meadow land, bounded by an embankment of lava.
-- Next day, the 29th of December, the march was delayed somewhat by a succession of little hills, resembling a miniature Switzerland.
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 rapid was the prog-ress of the light vessels, that the lake curled in their front, in miniature waves, and their motion became undulating by its own velocity.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behind the Clean Up and Prevent Fires exhibit, consisting of a miniature Dirty House with red arrows to show where a fire might start and an extremely varnished Clean House, there was an alcove with a broken window which would carry off the smoke of their cigarettes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The preparations without doors had not been neglected either; a nun of great personal attractions was telling her beads on the little portico over the door; and a brigand with the blackest possible head of hair, and the clearest possible complexion, was at that moment going round the town in a cart, consulting the miniature of a lady.
-- The light cart in which the Brigand usually made his perambulations being gaily dressed with flags and streamers, and the Brigand placed therein, contemplating the miniature of his beloved as usual, Nell was accommodated with a seat beside him, decorated with artificial flowers, and in this state and ceremony rode slowly through the town every morning, dispersing handbills from a basket, to the sound of drum and trumpet.
-- He opened, as he spoke, a cupboard close to where he sat, and produced some miniature boxes, carved in a homely manner and made of old wood.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Inside the cove the water was uninteresting to a swimmer, being smooth as a pond, and to get a little of the ocean swell, Troy presently swam between the two projecting spurs of rock which formed the pillars of Hercules to this miniature Mediterranean.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She told me, that that same evening William had teased her to let him wear a very valuable miniature that she possessed of 78 Frankensteinyour mother.
-- Below this picture was a miniature of William; and 85my tears flowed when I looked upon it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With foreboding, Mammy had brought her young mistress a small package, addressed in a strange hand fromNew Orleans, a package containing a miniature of Ellen, which she flung to the floor with a cry, four letters in herown handwriting to Philippe Robillard, and a brief letter from a New Orleans priest, announcing the death of hercousin in a barroom brawl.
-- He hauled from his pockets a heavy gold watch with dangling seals, a small miniature of the long dead Mrs.Wilkes and a pair of massive cuff buttons.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a reasonably good path now, mostly on the edge of the river, with a divergence here and there where a dike came, with a miniature windmill on it and a muddy sluice-gate.
-- By the wilderness of casks that I had walked on long ago, and on which the rain of years had fallen since, rotting them in many places, and leaving miniature swamps and pools of water upon those that stood on end, I made my way to the ruined garden.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a hideous little street of dead wall, stables, and dunghills, with lofts over coach-houses inhabited by coachmen's families, who had a passion for drying clothes and decorating their window-sills with miniature turnpike-gates.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg made many moral rules, and tried to keep them, but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You have said so," replied Elinor, "almost every day since they first met on High-church Down; and they had not known each other a week, I believe, before you were certain that Marianne wore his picture round her neck; but it turned out to be only the miniature of our great uncle."
-- Then taking a small miniature from her pocket, she added, "To prevent the possibility of mistake, be so good as to look at this face.
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