slight是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 轻微的, 不足道的; 纤细的, 瘦弱的; vt. /n. 轻视, 藐视,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desir-able that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.
-- A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats.
-- Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count them up: what then.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Was not this intimacy with the pris-94 A tale of two citiesoner, in reality a very slight one, forced upon the prisoner in coaches, inns, and packets?
-- A slight frown and a laconic 'Yes,' were the answer.
-- Miss Pross's fidelity of belief in Sol-omon (deducting a mere trifle for this slight mistake) was quite a serious matter with Mr. Lorry, and had its weight in his good opinion of her.
-- The arm of the golden gi-ant in the hall was not more steady than he was, when he stopped under it to remark to them that he was not yet proof against slight surprises (if he ever would be), and that the rain had startled him.
-- A small lofty room, with its window wide open, and the wooden jalousie-blinds closed, so that the dark night only showed in slight horizontal lines of black, alternating with their broad lines of stone colour.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter 3 When he was dressed, Stepan Arkadyevitch sprinkled some scent on himself, pulled down his shirt-cuffs, distributed into his pockets his cigarettes, pocketbook, matches, and watch with its double chain and seals, and shaking out his handkerchief, feeling himself clean, fragrant, healthy, and physically at ease, in spite of his unhappiness, he walked with a slight swing on each leg into the dining-room, where coffee was already waiting for him, and beside the coffee, letters and papers from the office.
-- And so Liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.
-- Oblonsky could not restrain a slight mocking smile at the sight of Levin.
-- With a slight inclination of her head she passed, hearing behind her Stepan Arkadyevitch's loud voice calling him to come up, and the quiet, soft, and composed voice of Vronsky refusing.
-- He saw the first meeting between the husband and wife, and noted with a lover's insight the signs of slight reserve with which she spoke to her husband.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- IN WHICH A SLIGHT GLIMPSE IS HAD OF SAN FRANCISCOIt was seven in the morning when Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout set foot upon the American continent, if this name can be given to the floating quay upon which they disembarked.
-- There was an unwonted light in his eyes, and a slight trembling of his lips.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In a two-family house on Social Hill, which is not a hill but a slight swelling in the plain, Martin and Leora found an upper floor.
-- There was a slight misunderstanding the first day.
-- As Martin listened to Terry Wickett (rude and slangy as ever, referring to himself as "the boy chemist," speaking of "this gaudy Institute" and "our trusting new lil brother, Arrowsmith") debating with a slight thin-bearded man--Dr. William T. Smith, assistant in bio-chemistry--the possibility of increasing the effects of all enzymes by doses of X-rays, as he heard one associate- member vituperate another for his notions of cell-chemistry and denounce Ehrlich as "the Edison of medical science," Martin perceived new avenues of exciting research; he stood on a mountain, and unknown valleys, craggy tantalizing paths, were open to his feet.
-- She lay on the coverlet of her berth, in the tropic languidness, a slight figure in a frivolous nightgown.
-- Now there was a slight crack in her lips; and that morning, fumbling at dusting--here in the laboratory meant as a fortress against disease--a maid had knocked over a test-tube, which had trickled.
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:
-- Zossimov made a slight movement, and would have an-swered, had not Razumihin anticipated him.
-- 'In that sense we are certainly all not infrequently like madmen, but with the slight difference that the deranged are somewhat madder, for we must draw a line.
-- The slight shivering still persisted, but that too was an almost pleasant sensation.
-- This slight friendly ges-ture bewildered Raskolnikov.
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