slack是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 松(弛) 的; 萧条的; 懈怠的; n. (绳索等) 松弛部分; [pl.，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：
-- Minerva was not slack to do her bidding.
-- 'King Agamemnon,' said he, 'let us not stay talking here, nor be slack in the work that heaven has put into our hands.
-- To this Neptune lord of the earthquake made answer, 'Idomeneus, may he never return from Troy, but remain here for dogs to batten upon, who is this day wilfully slack in fighting.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She complained of his vulgarity and what she asserted to be his slack ambition.
-- God give me a quiet and relentless anger against all pretense and all pretentious work and all work left slack and unfinished.
-- "Now bang it, Leora, here when I DO have the first chance in eleven thousand years to think about you, and I come right out frankly and admit how slack I've been-- And planning to send you flowers--" "You look here, Sandy Arrowsmith!Quit bullying me!You want the luxury of harrowing yourself by thinking what a poor, bawling, wretched, story-book wife I am.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You've let yourself get so slack that I don't know how it is you are still a good, even a devoted doctor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water halfan hour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In place of enlivening his patron with a constant fire of wit or the cheerful rattle of his quarter-staff on the heads of his relations and acquaintance, here was that beaming Punch utterly devoid of spine, all slack and drooping in a dark box, with his legs doubled up round his neck, and not one of his social qualities remaining.
-- The boat had neither oar nor sail, but was towed by a couple of horses, who, with the rope to which they were harnessed slack and dripping in the water, were resting on the path.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on theporch were neither slack nor soft.
-- Pork, the onlytrained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack andcareless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, Joe; but what I wanted to say, was, that as we are rather slack just now, if you would give me a half-holiday to-morrow, I think I would go uptown and make a call on Miss Est--Havisham."
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：
-- For Gudrun had been a social success, and had her friends among the slack aristocracy that keeps touch with the arts.
-- He sat slack and motionless in the boat, his head blunt and blind like a seal's, his whole appearance inhuman, unknowing.
-- Her bulk seemed hunched in the chair, her fair hair hung slack over her ears.
-- Her arms were round his neck, he kissed her and held her perfectly suspended, she was all slack and flowing into him, and he was the firm, strong cup that receives the wine of her life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the mothers could (and did) dance, upon the slack wire and the tight-rope, and perform rapid acts on bare-backed steeds; none of them were at all particular in respect of showing their legs; and one of them, alone in a Greek chariot, drove six in hand into every town they came to.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thoroughly understood and appreciated the necessity for waiting, before crossing the fjord, for that moment when the sea at its highest point is in a state of slack water.
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：
-- Now it was going slack, and a little flat, thinner, but with a slack thinness.
-- It was al-ready beginning to slacken, with a slack sort of thinness, almost withered, going old before it had ever really lived.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So slack and dead!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The involuntary consternation of the moment caused him to leap, paddle in hand, out of the boat; and in such a way, that part of the slack whale line coming against his chest, he breasted it overboard with him, so as to become entangled in it, when at last plumping into the water.
-- But at last in his untraceable evolutions, the White Whale so crossed and recrossed, and in a thousand ways entangled the slack of the three lines now fast to him, that they foreshortened, and, of themselves, warped the devoted boats towards the planted irons in him; though now for a moment the whale drew aside a little, as if to rally for a more tremendous charge.
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