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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was bigger than I expected: I do not know why I had imagined him slender and of insignificant appearance; in point of fact he was broad and heavy, with large hands and feet, and he wore his evening clothes clumsily.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards the north, on the contrary, the bay widened, and a more rounded coast appeared, trending from the southwest to the northeast, and terminating in a slender cape.
-- Their feathery feet could be seen clasping the slender twigs which supported them.
-- It was the slender crescent moon, already almost disappearing; but its light was sufficient to show clearly the horizontal line, then detached from the cloud, and the engineer could see its reflection trembling for an instant on a liquid surface.
-- Long straight branches were cut, the leaves stripped off; it was shaped, stronger in the middle, more slender at the extremities, and nothing remained to be done but to find a plant fit to make the bow-string.
-- It was like the first because it rolled itself into a ball, and bristled with spines, and the second because it had sharp claws, a long slender snout which terminated in a bird's beak, and an extendible tongue, covered with little thorns which served to hold the insects.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though much altered by age, I fancied I could recognize in his spare and slender form something of that delicate mould which I had noticed in the child.
-- Black-eyed gipsy girls, hooded in showy handkerchiefs, sallied forth to tell fortunes, and pale slender women with consumptive faces lingered upon the footsteps of ventriloquists and conjurors, and counted the sixpences with anxious eyes long before they were gained.
-- The other man, whom his companion had called Isaac, was of a more slender figure stooping, and high in the shoulders with a very ill-favoured face, and a most sinister and villainous squint.
-- Certain they considered it, that there was but slender prospect left of hearing of them again, and that whether their flight originated with the old man, or with the child, there was now no hope of their return.
-- Armed with these slender powers, she hurried away, commissioned to bring either old Mr Garland or Mr Abel, bodily, to that apartment.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, with intense relief, I saw dimly coming up, a foot to the right of me, a slender loophole in the wall.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had been so much talked of, even through the Atlantic cable, that jesters pretended that this slender fly had stopped a telegram on its passage and was making the most of it.
-- Here and there sharp points and slender needles rising to a height of 200 feet; further on a steep shore, hewn as it were with an axe and clothed with greyish tints; huge mirrors, reflecting a few rays of sunshine, half drowned in the fog.
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：
-- In a little convulsion of too-tired yearning, she entered the church and looked slowly along her cheeks for him, her slender body convulsed with agitation.
-- But it was made of rich peach-coloured cr脙陋pe-de-chine, that hung heavily and softly from her young throat and her slender wrists.
-- Her appearance was simple and complete, really beautiful, because of her regularity and form, her soft dark hair falling full and level on either side of her head, her straight, small, softened features, Egyptian in the slight fulness of their curves, her slender neck and the simple, rich-coloured smock hanging on her slender shoulders.
-- He made Gerald uncertain, because, being tall and slender and reticent, he looked like a gentleman.
-- And he was very picturesque, at least in Gudrun's eyes, sitting soft and close on the slender red mare, whose long tail flowed on the air.
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