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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A little spluttering was heard and a tiny blue flame sprang up, making a choking smoke.
-- If, on the contrary, this is the coast of a desert island in some tiny archipelago, perhaps we shall be able to reconnoiter it from the summit of that peak which overlooks the country, and then we shall see how best to establish ourselves here as if we are never to go away."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Birds in hot rooms, covered up close and dark, felt it was morning, and chafed and grew restless in their little cells; bright-eyed mice crept back to their tiny homes and nestled timidly together; the sleek house-cat, forgetful of her prey, sat winking at the rays of sun starting through keyhole and cranny in the door, and longed for her stealthy run and warm sleek bask outside.
-- When they rose up from the ground, and took the shady track which led them through the wood, she bounded on before, printing her tiny footsteps in the moss, which rose elastic from so light a pressure and gave it back as mirrors throw off breath; and thus she lured the old man on, with many a backward look and merry beck, now pointing stealthily to some lone bird as it perched and twittered on a branch that strayed across their path, now stopping to listen to the songs that broke the happy silence, or watch the sun as it trembled through the leaves, and stealing in among the ivied trunks of stout old trees, opened long paths of light.
-- Kit was so near her when they shook hands, that he could see a small tiny tear, yet trembling on an eyelash.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she opened the door of a tiny cell, evidently intended for solitary confinement, and now at the disposal of the political prisoners.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, by merely seeming fond of me, and showing in her weak, futile way that she cared for me, the little doll of a creature presently gave my return to the neighbourhood of the White Sphinx almost the feeling of coming home; and I would watch for her tiny figure of white and gold so soon as I came over the hill.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.
-- 'It would have to be a very tiny earthquake!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and so forth, without pause or change, like the clacking of a tiny mill.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Perfectly beautiful full of primitive passion ""Isn't it queer that she always likes little things? she must always work small things, that one can put between one's hands, birds and tiny animals.
-- By the road the black-thorn was in blossom, white and wet, its tiny amber grains burning faintly in the white smoke of blossom.
-- Birkin was drinking something green, Miss Darrington had a small liqueur glass that was empty save for a tiny drop.
-- She tripped through the gate and down the grass, and stood, like a tiny figure of ivory and bronze, at the water's edge, having dropped off her towelling, watching the swans, which came up in surprise.
-- The daisies were scattered broadcast on the pond, tiny radiant things, like an exaltation, points of exaltation here and there.
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