big是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 大的； 重要的； 宽宏大量的； 大受欢迎的，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent; and after consulting awhile with the inn-keeper, and making some necessary preparations, he hired the grultrud, or crier, to give notice through the town of a strange creature to be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not so big as a splacnuck (an animal in that country very finely shaped, about six feet long,) and in every part of the body resembling a human creature, could speak several words, and perform a hundred diverting tricks.
-- She would craunch the wing of a lark, bones and all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full-grown turkey; and put a bit of bread into her mouth as big as two twelve- penny loaves.
-- Nothing angered and mortified me so much as the queen's dwarf; who being of the lowest stature that was ever in that country (for I verily think he was not full thirty feet high), became so insolent at seeing a creature so much be-neath him, that he would always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by me in the queen's antechamber, while I was standing on some table talking with the lords or la-dies of the court, and he seldom failed of a smart word or two upon my littleness; against which I could only revenge myself by calling him brother, challenging him to wrestle, 130 Gulliver's Travelsand such repartees as are usually in the mouths of court pages.
-- The occa-sion was this: the kingdom is much pestered with flies in summer; and these odious insects, each of them as big as a Dunstable lark, hardly gave me any rest while I sat at din-ner, with their continual humming and buzzing about mine ears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as I was big enough to run away, of course I ran away.
-- Remembrances of how she had journeyed to the little that she knew, by the enchanted roads of what she and millions of innocent creatures had hoped and imagined; of how, first coming upon Reason through the tender light of Fancy, she had seen it a beneficent god, deferring to gods as great as itself; not a grim Idol, cruel and cold, with its victims bound hand to foot, and its big dumb shape set up with a sightless stare, never to be moved by anything but so many calculated tons of leverage what had she to do with these?
-- 'Sent Loo a basket half as big as a church, yesterday.'
-- 'There'th a property-houthe, you thee, for Jack to hide in; there'th my Clown with a thauthepan-lid and a thpit, for Jack'th thervant; there'th little Jack himthelf in a thplendid thoot of armour; there'th two comic black thervanth twithe ath big ath the houthe, to thtand by it and to bring it in and clear it; and the Giant (a very ecthpenthive bathket one), he an't on yet.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not help smiling to see him look so big on his little horse; his long legs now and then touching the ground made him look like a six-footed centaur.
-- Not a tree was to be seen, except a few stunted willows about as big as blackberry bushes.
-- "My dear uncle," I exclaimed, and the big tears rolled down my hot and feverish cheeks.
-- It was easy to give a name to these gigantic bones, in some instances as big as trunks of trees.
-- I thought I saw on the surface of the water those enormous antediluvian turtles as big as floating is lands.
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：
-- Not the big sort, but still it.
-- He was at his ease in the narrow 'great world', that is, landed aristocracy society, but he was shy and ner-vous of all that other big world which consists of the vast hordes of the middle and lower classes, and foreigners.
-- Big and strong as he was, he was helpless.
-- Being a soft, ruddy, country-looking girl, inclined to freck-les, with big blue eyes, and curling, brown hair, and a soft voice, and rather strong, female loins she was considered a little old-fashioned and 'womanly'.
-- Clifford made big eyes: it was all stuff to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This big loaf is for Signor John Baptist.
-- If there is anything that is not to be tolerated on any terms, anything that is a type of Jack-in-office insolence and absurdity, anything that represents in coats, waistcoats, and big sticks our English holding on by nonsense after every one has found it out, it is a beadle.
-- Little as she had always looked, she looked less than ever when he saw her going into the Marshalsea lodge passage, the little mother attended by her big child.
-- Just as the big ship in tow gets the credit, with most spectators, of being the powerful object, so the Patriarch usually seemed to have said himself whatever Pancks said for him.
-- There was a glow of pride in her big child, overspreading her face, when it again met the eyes of the grave brown gentleman.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Round shoulders had Jo, big hands and feet, a flyaway look to her clothes, and the uncomfort-able appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.
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