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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the cocoa-nuts would be ripe for picking, and her cousins (like all the natives, Ata had a host of relatives) would swarm up the trees and throw down the big ripe nuts.
-- I saw a middle-aged Frenchman with a big black beard, streaked with gray, a sunburned face, and large, shining eyes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "At any rate, it seems to be big enough," replied the lad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paid the coachman, and turned his back on Bevis Marks, big with great designs for the comforting of Kit's mother and the aid of Kit himself.
-- But, not so Mr Abel; or the strong man who emptied the hamper, big as it was, in a twinkling; and not so the nice old lady, who appeared so suddenly that she might have come out of the hamper too (it was quite large enough), and who, bustling about on tiptoe and without noise now here, now there, now everywhere at once began to fill out the jelly in tea-cups, and to make chicken broth in small saucepans, and to peel oranges for the sick man and to cut them up in little pieces, and to ply the small servant with glasses of wine and choice bits of everything until more substantial meat could be prepared for her refreshment.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And what a big man!
-- Behind them, in a very dirty, gray shirt, stood a wretched- looking woman, big with child, who was charged with concealing stolen property.
-- There was an old acquaintance of Nekhludoff, the yellow-faced and thin Vera Efremovna, with her large, frightened eyes and a big vein on her forehead.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What is more, I have a big machine nearly finished in there" he indicated the laboratory "and when that is put together I mean to have a journey on my own account."
-- I was naturally most occupied with the growing crowd of little people, and with the big open portals that yawned before me shadowy and mysterious.
-- "The big doorway opened into a proportionately great hall hung with brown.
-- The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley, but the Thames had shifted, perhaps, a mile from its present position.
-- "I thought of the physical slightness of the people, their lack of intelligence, and those big abundant ruins, and it strengthened my belief in a perfect conquest of Nature.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first I had supposed "the dead man's chest" to be that identical big box of his upstairs in the front room, and the thought had been mingled in my nightmares with that of the one-legged seafaring man.
-- I remember his breath hanging like smoke in his wake as he strode off, and the last sound I heard of him as he turned the big rock was a loud snort of indignation, as though his mind was still running upon Dr. Livesey.
-- Just at the door the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow.
-- A few small coins, a thimble, and some thread and big needles, a piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at the end, his gully with the crooked handle, a pocket compass, and a tinder box were all that they contained, and I began to despair.
-- So a big pigeon pie was brought in and put on a sidetable, and I made a hearty supper, for I was as hungry as a hawk, while Mr. Dance was further complimented and at last dismissed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many of the sailors affirmed that the monster could not pass there, "that he was too big for that!"
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：
-- "Are little things more subtle than big things?"
-- At the back were trees, among which were to be found the stables, and the big kitchen garden, behind which was a wood.
-- He was talking to Miss Bradley, who, seated on the bank above, plump and big and wet, looked as if she might roll and slither in the water almost like one of the slithering sealions in the Zoo.
-- The big mill-house was deserted, save for a labourer and his wife who lived in the kitchen.
-- The grove was of beech-trees, big and splendid, a steel-grey scaffolding of trunks and boughs, with level sprays of strong green here and there, whilst through the northern side the distance glimmered open as through a window.
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