minor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 较小的， 较小的n. 兼修学科v. (in) 兼修，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus they cross in turn through South America, Australia and New Zealand, besides visiting minor islands.
-- The silence of night was only interrupted by the cries of the "morepork" in the minor key, like the mournful cuckoos of Europe.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a suspicion in Elk Mills--now, in 1897, a dowdy red-brick village, smelling of apples-- that this brown-leather adjustable seat which Doc Vickerson used for minor operations, for the infrequent pulling of teeth and for highly frequent naps, had begun life as a barber's chair.
-- He was received with acclaim in the private office of Hunziker, which was remarkably like a minor cathedral.
-- "Then there's another--this is a minor thing; it doesn't try to drive home general abstract principles, but it'd surprise you the effect it's had on careless housewives, who of course don't mean to neglect the health of their little ones and merely need instruction and a little pep put into them, and when they see a card like this, it makes 'em think: Boil the milk bottles or by gum You better buy your ticket to Kingdom Come.
-- As a bedtime farewell, the twins then recited, as they had recently at the Congregational Festival, one of their father's minor lyrics: What does little birdie say On the sill at break o' day?
-- Everyone whom Martin met at the Holabirds' flat was a Somebody, though perhaps a minor Somebody: a goodish editor or a rising ethnologist; and all of them had Holabird's graceful casualness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- '"It is not my intention,"' he continued, reading on, '"to enter on adetailed list, within the compass of the present epistle (though it isready elsewhere), of the various malpractices of a minor nature,affecting the individual whom I have denominated Mr. W., towhich I have been a tacitly consenting party.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The grass about the margin at this season was a sight to remember long in a minor sort of way.
-- It was the unvarying custom in Weatherbury to sink minor differences when the maltster had to be pacified.
-- Perhaps in no minor point does woman astonish her helpmate more than in the strange power she possesses of believing cajoleries that she knows to be false except, indeed, in that of being utterly sceptical on strictures that she knows to be true.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Catching sight of Mammy's burden, Scarlett's expression changed from one of minor irritation to obstinatebelligerency.
-- And all because of a bit of minor philandering.
-- Visitors presented no problem, for houses were large, servants numerous and the feeding of severalextra mouths a minor matter in that land of plenty.
-- There had already been minor scandalsabout those holding government contracts.
-- The shrill, melancholy minor of Prissy was raised, "Jes' a few mo' days, ter tote de wee-ry load ..." The songgrated on Scarlett, its sad implications frightening her, and slipping on a wrapper she pattered out into the hall and tothe back stairs and shouted: "Shut up that singing, Prissy!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To confess the truth, I very heartily wished, and not for the first time, that I had had some other guardian of minor abilities.
-- Avoiding the Blue Boar, I put up at an inn of minor reputation down the town, and ordered some dinner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my uncle was not a man to be kept waiting; so adjourning therefore all minor questions, I presented myself before him.
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：
-- Love was only a minor accompaniment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the minor priests and acolytes of that temple, the result of all this was that they stood divided into two classes, and, down to the junior messenger, either believed in the Circumlocution Office as a heaven-born institution that had an absolute right to do whatever it liked; or took refuge in total infidelity, and considered it a flagrant nuisance.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard one of the young men tell another that he knew I'd been an actress, in fact, he thought he re-membered seeing me at one of the minor theaters.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It frequently happens that when several ships are cruising in company, a whale may be struck by one vessel, then escape, and be finally killed and captured by another vessel; and herein are indirectly comprised many minor contingencies, all partaking of this one grand feature.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The preferment, which only two days before she had considered as hopeless for Edward, was already provided to enable him to marry; and SHE, of all people in the world, was fixed on to bestow it! Her emotion was such as Mrs. Jennings had attributed to a very different cause; but whatever minor feelings less pure, less pleasing, might have a share in that emotion, her esteem for the general benevolence, and her gratitude for the particular friendship, which together prompted Colonel Brandon to this act, were strongly felt, and warmly expressed.
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