tiny是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 极小的， 微小的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the child, clapping her tiny hands, and bending down to laugh.
-- 'And your brother, Tiny Tim.
-- So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob, the father, with at least three feet of comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder.
-- Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame.
-- Martha didn't like to see him disappointed, if it were only in joke; so she came out prematurely from behind the closet door, and ran into his arms, while the two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off into the wash-house, that he might hear the pudding singing in the copper.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 298 A tale of two citiesThen, among the advancing echoes, there was the tread of her tiny feet and the sound of her prattling words.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the little maiden walked on with her tiny naked feet, that were quite red and blue from cold.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tiny bear has grown big now!"
-- It's very stupid, but it'll pass off," said Anna quickly, and she bent her flushed face over a tiny bag in which she was packing a nightcap and some cambric handkerchiefs.
-- She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was only just up after her confinement (she had another baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter), though she had trouble and anxiety enough of her own, she had left her tiny baby and a sick child, to come and hear Kitty's fate, which was to be decided that day.
-- The old grass looked greener, and the young grass thrust up its tiny blades; the buds of the guelder-rose and of the currant and the sticky birch-buds were swollen with sap, and an exploring bee was humming about the golden blossoms that studded the willow.
-- Tiny birds twittered, and now and then fluttered from tree to tree.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are twelve thousand students; beside this prodigy Oxford is a tiny theological school and Harvard a select college for young gentlemen.
-- He was a bright and happy Christian, a romping optimist who laughed away sin and doubt, a joyful Puritan who with annoying virility preached the doctrine of his tiny sect, the Sanctification Brotherhood, that to have a beautiful church was almost as damnable as the debaucheries of card-playing.
-- Madeline's widowed mother had come to live with her, and they had taken a top-floor flat in one of the tiny apartment-houses which were beginning to replace the expansive old wooden houses of Mohalis.
-- They found Leora in the lobby, tiny on an enormous couch built round a pillar.
-- Ahead of him, in the cork-floored hallway lit only by a tiny electric globe, Leora was tiptoeing toward a flight of stairs.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This house was let out in tiny tenements and was inhabited by working people of all kinds tailors, locksmiths, cooks, Germans of sorts, girls picking up a living as best they could, petty clerks, etc.
-- In a little while, the door was opened a tiny crack: the old woman eyed her visitor with evident distrust through the crack, and nothing could be seen but her little eyes, glittering in the darkness.
-- The young man stepped into the dark entry, which was partitioned off from the tiny kitch-en.
-- 'It's in the houses of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness,' Raskolnikov thought again, and he stole a curious glance at the cotton curtain over the door leading into another tiny room, in which stood the old woman's bed and chest of drawers and into which he had never looked before.
-- It was a tiny cupboard of a room about six paces in length.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am thankful for myself, at any rate, that I can findmy tiny way through the world, without being beholden to anyone; and that in return for all that is thrown at me, in folly orvanity, as I go along, I can throw bubbles back.
-- My aunt, however (who has sold the house at Dover, togood advantage), is not going to remain here, but intendsremoving herself to a still more tiny cottage close at hand.
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