short是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 短的， 矮的； (of) 缺乏， 不足n. (pl. ) 短裤，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Returning from an extremely agreeable game of chemin de fer with F. X. Jordan, taking a short cut through the alley behind the City Hall, Mayor Pugh saw Martin at two in the morning drearily putting test-tubes in the incubator, while Leora sat in a corner smoking.
-- Then Martin also went rapidly away, accompanied by a furious Leora, who in the taxicab announced that she had desired to taste the champagne-cup which she had observed on the buffet, and that her husband was little short of a fool.
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：
-- The persons still in the tavern were a man who appeared to be an artisan, drunk, but not ex-tremely so, sitting before a pot of beer, and his companion, a huge, stout man with a grey beard, in a short full-skirted coat.
-- She knows everyone in the neighbourhood, and that month she was continually coming into the town, and as she is rather talkative and fond of gossiping about her family affairs and particularly of complaining to all and each of her husband which is not at all right so in a short time she had spread her story not only in the town, but over the whole surrounding dis-trict.
-- If possible, I would set-tle somewhere near you, for the most joyful piece of news, dear Rodya, I have kept for the end of my letter: know then, my dear boy, that we may, perhaps, be all together in a very short time and may embrace one another again after a sep-aration of almost three years!It is settled for certain that Dounia and I are to set off for Petersburg, exactly when I don't know, but very, very soon, possibly in a week.
-- He stopped short and was still as death.
-- 'Short and clear.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether sea-goingpeople were short of money about that time, or were short of faithand preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that therewas but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorneyconnected with the bill-broking business, who offered two poundsin cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteedfrom drowning on any higher bargain.
-- In a short pause which ensued, she had a fancy that shefelt Miss Betsey touch her hair, and that with no ungentle hand;but, looking at her, in her timid hope, she found that lady sittingwith the skirt of her dress tucked up, her hands folded on oneknee, and her feet upon the fender, frowning at the fire.
-- I really thought she was, she had been so short with me; but I wasquite mistaken: for she laid aside her work (which was a stockingof her own), and opening her arms wide, took my curly headwithin them, and gave it a good squeeze.
-- However, we returned to those monsters, with fresh wakefulnesson my part, and we left their eggs in the sand for the sun to hatch;and we ran away from them, and baffled them by constantlyturning, which they were unable to do quickly, on account of theirunwieldy make; and we went into the water after them, as natives,and put sharp pieces of timber down their throats; and in short weran the whole crocodile gauntlet.
-- 'No, master,' heanswered, with a short laugh.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as gov-erness, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.
-- Consider, she is sitting down which naturally presents a different which in short gives exactly the idea and the proportions must be preserved, you know.
-- 'Oh no; and it is but a short letter too.'
-- 'It is one thing,' said she, presently her cheeks in a glow 'to have very good sense in a common way, like every body else, and if there is any thing to say, to sit down and write a letter, and say just what you must, in a short way; and another, to write verses and charades like this.'
-- Till this year, every long vacation since their marriage had been divided between Hartfield and Donwell Abbey; but all the holidays of this autumn had been given to sea-bathing for the children, and it was therefore many months since they had been seen in a regular way by their Surry connexions, or seen at all by Mr. Woodhouse, who could not be induced to get so far as Lon-don, even for poor Isabella's sake; and who consequently was now most nervously and apprehensively happy in fore-112 Emmastalling this too short visit.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Previously he had been a bailiff for a short time, and earlier still a shepherd only, having from his childhood assisted his father in tending the flocks of large proprietors, till old Gabriel sank to rest.
-- Gabriel had reached a pitch of existence he never could have anticipated a short time before.
-- However she seemed to have a short cut for getting back to cheerfulness, and set her face to signify archness.
-- Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
-- On the extreme summit, where the ends of the two converging hedges of which we have spoken were stopped short by meeting the brow of the chalk-pit, he saw the younger dog standing against the sky dark and motionless as Napoleon at St. Helena.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Less superficial observers than young men engulfed by the whirlpool of Parisian life, or old men, who took no interest in anything that did not directly concern them, would not have stopped short at the vaguely unsatisfactory impression that Vautrin made upon them.
-- Vauquer's astonished eyes beheld no less than eighteen cambric-fronted shirts, the splendor of their fineness being enhanced by a pair of pins each bearing a large diamond, and connected by a short chain, an ornament which adorned the vermicelli-maker's shirt front.
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