slender是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 细长的, 苗条的, 纤弱的; 微小的, 微薄的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gradually, these strings of ragged people shortened and frayed away; and then poor lights began to shine in high windows, and slender fires were made in the streets, at which neighbours cooked in common, afterwards supping at their doors.
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：
-- She was tall and of slender figure, and of a dazzling whiteness.
-- Near the green lawn papa's walking-stick was tied, and for the little ones it seemed to be endowed with life; for as soon as they got astride it, the round polished knob was turned into a magnificent neighing head, a long black mane fluttered in the breeze, and four slender yet strong legs shot out.
-- 'I never did see anything so slender and so fine, so soft and so neat.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have the honor of knowing your brother, Sergey Ivanovitch," said Grinevitch, holding out his slender hand with its long nails.
-- She was in a corner, and turning out her slender feet in their high boots with obvious timidity, she skated towards him.
-- Without even asking her if she cared to dance, he put out his arm to encircle her slender waist.
-- Anna was not in lilac, as Kitty had so urgently wished, but in a black, low-cut, velvet gown, showing her full throat and shoulders, that looked as though carved in old ivory, and her rounded arms, with tiny, slender wrists.
-- Her light, transparent skirts rose like a cloud about her slender waist; one bare, thin, soft, girlish arm, hanging listlessly, was lost in the folds of her pink tunic; in the other she held her fan, and with rapid, short strokes fanned her burning face.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout saw, too, begging friars, long-robed pilgrims, and simple civilians, with their warped and jet-black hair, big heads, long busts, slender legs, short stature, and complexions varying from copper-colour to a dead white, but never yellow, like the Chinese, from whom the Japanese widely differ.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a slender boy, not very tall; his hair and restless eyes were black, his skin unusually white, and the contrast gave him an air of passionate variability.
-- He had known her as a jacketed outdoor girl, but this was an exquisite indoor Madeline, slender in yellow silk.
-- She was a smallish and slender probationer, muffled in a harsh blue denim dress, an enormous white apron, and a turban bound about her head with an elastic--a uniform as grubby as her pail of scrub- water.
-- He twirled the slender green glass affectionately; he came out of his dreams and became excited, gay, demanding.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scent ofgeranium leaf, at this day, strikes me with a half-comical, half-serious wonder as to what change has come over me in a moment;and then I see a straw hat and blue ribbons, and a quantity of curls,and a little black dog being held up, in two slender arms, against abank of blossoms and bright leaves.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To describe the spot is to call it a vast, low, naturally formed hall, the plumy ceiling of which was supported by slender pillars of living wood, the floor being covered with a soft dun carpet of dead spikelets and mildewed cones, with a tuft of grass-blades here and there.
-- Yet perhaps my cheerfulness rests on a slender hope.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the same kind of charm about her too slender form, her faintly colored face and light-brown hair, that modern poets find in mediaeval statuettes; and a sweet expression, a look of Christian resignation in the dark gray eyes.
-- The Countess had no need of the adventitious aid of corsets; her girdle defined the outlines of her slender waist; her throat was a challenge to love; her feet, thrust into slippers, were daintily small.
-- The quick-witted child of the Charente felt the disadvantage at which he was placed beside this tall, slender dandy, with the clear gaze and the pale face, one of those men who would ruin orphan children without scruple.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wasglad she had inherited Ellen's slender white hands and tiny feet, and she wished she had Ellen's height, too, but herown height pleased her very well.
-- Behind them streamed the merry cavalcade, girls cool in flowered cotton dresses, withlight shawls, bonnets and mitts to protect their skins and little parasols held over their heads; elderly ladies placid andsmiling amid the laughter and carriage-to-carriage calls and jokes; convalescents from the hospitals wedged in betweenstout chaperons and slender girls who made great fuss and to-do over them; officers on horseback idling at snail's pacebeside the carriages wheels creaking, spurs jingling, gold braid gleaming, parasols bobbing, fans swishing, negroessinging.
-- Now Ashley was going away, back to Virginia, back to the long marches in the sleet, to hungry bivouacs in thesnow, to pain and hardship and to the risk of all the bright beauty of his golden head and proud slender body beingblotted out in an instant, like an ant beneath a careless heel.
-- She wrapped the bright lengths about his slender waist, above his belt, and tied the ends in a lover's knot.
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