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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these words he moved the heart of Aeneas, and he went in pursuit of Idomeneus, big with great deeds of valour; but Idomeneus was not to be thus daunted as though he were a mere child; he held his ground as a wild boar at bay upon the mountains, who abides the coming of a great crowd of men in some lonely place the bristles stand upright on his back, his eyes flash fire, and he whets his tusks in his eager-ness to defend himself against hounds and men even so did famed Idomeneus hold his ground and budge not at the coming of Aeneas.
-- But Hector answered, 'Ajax, braggart and false of tongue, would that I were as sure of being son for evermore to aegis-bearing Jove, with Queen Juno for my mother, and of being held in like honour with Minerva and Apollo, as I am that this day is big with the destruction of the Achaeans; and you shall fall among them if you dare abide my spear; it shall rend your fair body and bid you glut our hounds and birds of prey with your fat and your flesh, as you fall by the ships of the Achaeans.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I prefer to keep them on," he said with emphasis, and she noticed that he wore big blue spectacles with sidelights, and had a bush side- whisker over his coat-collar that completely hid his cheeks and face.
-- The reflection of the fire lent a kind of red animation to his big spectacles they had lacked hitherto.
-- His big slouch hat even was cocked jauntily over the bed-post.
-- His feet, save for socks of irregular open-work, were bare, his big toes were broad, and pricked like the ears of a watchful dog.
-- As he did so, Mr. Marvel reappeared, his hat askew, a big bundle in a blue table-cloth in one hand, and three books tied together as it proved afterwards with the Vicar's braces in the other.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's a dim half-memory of be-ing lifted up to the gangway, and of a big red countenance covered with freckles and surrounded with red hair staring at me over the bulwarks.
-- The facial part projected, forming something dim-ly suggestive of a muzzle, and the huge half-open mouth showed as big white teeth as I had ever seen in a human mouth.
-- Farther under the star-board bulwark were some big hutches containing a number of rabbits, and a solitary llama was squeezed in a mere box of a cage forward.
-- I heard the bows ground in the sand, staved the dingey off the rudder of the big boat with my piggin, and freeing the painter, landed.
-- The three big fellows spoke to one another in odd guttural tones, and the man who had waited for us on the beach began chattering to them excitedly a foreign language, as I fancied as they laid hands on some bales piled near the stern.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
-- Tabaqui sat still, rejoicing in the mischief that he had made, and then he said spitefully: 'Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds.
-- The big panther turned his head away in half a minute.
-- But art thou sure, O my Ba-gheera' he slipped his arm around the splendid neck and looked deep into the big eyes 'art thou sure that all this is Shere Khan's doing?'
-- 'No one then is to be feared,' Baloo wound up, patting his big furry stomach with pride.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your fathers came from the setting sun, crossed the big river*, fought the people of the country, and took the land; and mine came from the red sky of the morning, over the salt lake, and did their work much after the fashion that had been set them by yours; then let God judge the matter be-tween us, and friends spare their words!'
-- 'We came from the place where the sun is hid at night, over great plains where the buffaloes live, until we reached the big river.
-- From the banks of the big river to the shores of the salt lake, there was none to meet us.
-- returned the disappointed scout; 'I heard the imp brushing over the dry leaves, like a black snake, and blinking a glimpse of him, just over ag'in yon big pine, I pulled as it might be on the scent; but 'twouldn't do!and yet for a reasoning aim, if any-body but myself had touched the trigger, I should call it a quick sight; and I may be accounted to have experience in these matters, and one who ought to know.
-- With an Indian 'tis a matter of conscience; what he calls himself, he gener-ally is not that Chingachgook, which signifies Big Sarpent, is really a snake, big or little; but that he understands the windings and turnings of human natur', and is silent, and strikes his enemies when they least expect him.
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：
-- "A big fellow with a red beard.
-- His appearance was wild and uncouth; there was aloofness in his eyes and sensuality in his mouth; he was big and strong; he gave the impression of untamed passion; and perhaps she felt in him, too, that sinister element which had made me think of those wild beings of the world's early history when matter, retaining its early connection with the earth, seemed to possess yet a spirit of its own.
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