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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The steward, who never could forget his routine ideas, even in the most exceptional circumstances, thought the meal a slender one.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And from it he began to produce bottles little fat bottles containing powders, small and slender bottles containing coloured and white fluids, fluted blue bottles labeled Poison, bottles with round bodies and slender necks, large green-glass bottles, large white- glass bottles, bottles with glass stoppers and frosted labels, bottles with fine corks, bottles with bungs, bottles with wooden caps, wine bottles, salad-oil bottles putting them in rows on the chiffonnier, on the mantel, on the table under the window, round the floor, on the bookshelf everywhere.
-- Dr. Kemp was a tall and slender young man, with flaxen hair and a moustache almost white, and the work he was upon would earn him, he hoped, the fellowship of the Royal Society, so highly did he think of it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was still theirs, that slender iron line winding through the sunny valley toward Atlanta.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No; deuce a bit of a lady in the case, Mr. Pip, except one,--and she wasn't of this slender lady-like sort, and you wouldn't have caught her looking after this urn, unless there was something to drink in it."
-- Forasmuch as they hang in my memory by only this one slender thread, I don't know what they did, except that they forbore to remove me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Grant me my life; what do you want with such a slender little fellow as I?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs.
-- I was diverted with none so much as that of the rope-danc-ers, performed upon a slender white thread, extended about two feet, and twelve inches from the ground.
-- He had a large pair of bellows, with a long slender muzzle of ivory: this he conveyed eight inches up the anus, and drawing in the wind, he affirmed he could make the guts as lank as a dried bladder.
-- They were all linked together by slender wires.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Scadgers (an immensely fat old woman, with an inordinate appetite for butcher's meat, and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years) contrived the marriage, at a period when Sparsit was just of age, and chiefly noticeable for a slender body, weakly supported on two long slim props, and surmounted by no head worth mentioning.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was naked to the hips, his velveteen breeches slipping down over his slender loins.
-- And his white slim back was curved over a big bowl of soapy water, in which he ducked his head, shaking his head with a queer, quick little motion, lifting his slender white arms, and pressing the soapy water from his ears, quick, subtle as a weasel playing with water, and utterly alone.
-- In his shirt, without the clumsy velveteen coat, she saw again how slender he was, thin, stooping a little.
-- Save for his hands and wrists and face and neck he was white as milk, with fine slender muscular flesh.
-- The man looked down the front of his slender white body, and laughed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have you no eyes, that you don't see how delicate and slender she is?
-- He saw the devoted little creature with her worn shoes, in her common dress, in her jail-home; a slender child in body, a strong heroine in soul; and the light of her domestic story made all else dark to him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.
-- To sum up, then: in the Right Whale's there is no great well of sperm; no ivory teeth at all; no long, slender mandible of a lower jaw, like the Sperm Whale's.
-- Sideways lashed in each of her three basketed tops were two barrels of sperm; above which, in her top-mast cross-trees, you saw slender breakers of the same precious fluid; and nailed to her main truck was a brazen lamp.
-- But as this conductor must descend to considerable depth, that its end may avoid all contact with the hull; and as moreover, if kept constantly towing there, it would be liable to many mishaps, besides interfering not a little with some of the rigging, and more or less impeding the vessel's way in the water; because of all this, the lower parts of a ship's lightning-rods are not always overboard; but are generally made in long slender links, so as to be the more readily hauled up into the chains outside, or thrown down into the sea, as occasion may require.
-- The life-buoy a long slender cask was dropped from the stern, where it always hung obedient to a cunning spring; but no hand rose to seize it, and the sun having long beat upon this cask it had shrunken, so that it slowly filled, and that parched wood also filled at its every pore; and the studded iron-bound cask followed the sailor to the bottom, as if to yield him his pillow, though in sooth but a hard one.
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