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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shadows were falling thicker now, the last greenish tinge had left the sky and a slight chill was displacing thebalminess of spring.
-- She sat up in bed, hugging her knees, and for a long happy moment she was Mrs. Ashley Wilkes Ashley'sbride!Then a slight chill entered her heart.
-- Frank Kennedy might own more land than anyone in the County and he might have a very kind heart,but these things counted for nothing against the fact that he was forty, slight and nervous and had a thin ginger-coloredbeard and an old-maidish, fussy way about him.
-- Occasionally when the slight breeze veered, puffs of smokefrom the long barbecue pits floated over the crowd and were greeted with squeals of mock dismay from the ladies andviolent flappings of palmetto fans.
-- Scarlett saw Melanie standing by her and, with a surge of dislike, she realized that the fly inthe ointment of Atlanta would be this slight little person in black mourning dress, her riotous dark curls subdued tomatronly smoothness and a loving smile of welcome and happiness on her heart-shaped face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That'll do, Molly," said Mr. Jaggers, giving her a slight nod; "you have been admired, and can go."
-- said Estella, with a slight wave of her hand, signifying in the fighting times.
-- I had looked into my affairs so often, that I had thoroughly destroyed any slight notion I might ever have had of their bearings.
-- She made use of me to tease other admirers, and she turned the very familiarity between herself and me to the account of putting a constant slight on my devotion to her.
-- However, it was decided at last (the Grove being a Court of Honor) that if Mr. Drummle would bring never so slight a certificate from the lady, importing that he had the honor of her acquaintance, Mr. Pip must express his regret, as a gentleman and a Finch, for "having been betrayed into a warmth which."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My late master withdrew, bidding me fare-well, and saying he had left me in a good service; to which I replied not a word, only making him a slight bow.
-- I had the curiosity to inquire in a particular manner, by what methods great numbers had procured to themselves high titles of honour, and prodigious estates; and I confined my inquiry to a very modern period: however, without grat-ing upon present times, because I would be sure to give no offence even to foreigners (for I hope the reader need not be told, that I do not in the least intend my own country, in what I say upon this occasion,) a great number of persons concerned were called up; and, upon a very slight examina-tion, discovered such a scene of infamy, that I cannot reflect upon it without some seriousness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sparsit's Coriolanian nose underwent a slight expansion of the nostrils, and her black eyebrows contracted as she took a sip of tea.
-- 'Sir, I hope I never had nowt to say, not fitten for a born lady to year, sin' I were born mysen',' was the reply, accompanied with a slight flush.
-- He really liked Sissy too well to have a contempt for her; otherwise he held her calculating powers in such very slight estimation that he must have fallen upon that conclusion.
-- She passed it away with a slight motion of her hand, and concentrating her attention upon him again, said, 'Father, I have often thought that life is very short.
-- Not a sound was audible in the building, but the slight rustle of men moving a little apart, all along the centre of the room, to open a means of passing out, to the man with whom they had all bound themselves to renounce companionship.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a slight but peculiar noise.
-- After a slight meal and a draught of water, I rose like a giant refreshed.
-- A slight frothy flake arose as the wind blew along the pellucid waters; and many a dash of spray was blown into my face.
-- The illuminating power in this subterranean region, from its trembling and Rickering character, its clear dry whiteness, the very slight elevation of its temperature, its great superiority to that of the moon, was evidently electric; something in the nature of the aurora borealis, only that its phenomena were constant, and able to light up the whole of the ocean cavern.
-- After a slight repast, I sought refuge in slumber, and at length, after many and tedious struggles, sleep came over my weary eyes.
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：
-- Yet still in his face one saw the watchful look, the slight vacancy of a cripple.
-- She bent her head to him shyly, and he changed his hat to his left hand and made her a slight bow, like a gentleman; but he said nothing at all.
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