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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stepped over the great western gate, and passed very gently, and sidling, through the two principal streets, only in my short waistcoat, for fear of damaging the roofs and eaves of the houses with the skirts of my coat.
-- For as to what we have heard you affirm, that there are other kingdoms and states in the world inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our philosophers are in much doubt, and would rather con-jecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars; because it is certain, that a hundred mortals of your bulk would in a short time destroy all the fruits and cattle of his majesty's dominions: besides, our histories of six thousand moons make no mention of any other regions than the two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His cold eyes would hardly have been eyes, but for the short ends of lashes which, by bringing them into immediate contrast with something paler than themselves, expressed their form.
-- The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.
-- 'Then,' said Mr. Bounderby, with a loud short laugh, 'what the devil do you rub your father with nine oils for?'
-- Was short in his leaps and bad in his tumbling,' Mr. Childers interpreted.
-- Consequently, if ever you come again into any room in this house, you will make a short stay in it if you don't behave towards that lady in your most respectful manner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of our great parcels of rope slipped from one of the Iceland porters, and rushed by a short cut to the bottom of the abyss.
-- In a short time we had some sufficiently cool to drink.
-- A short delay between question and answer.
-- The other was the mighty Plesiosaurus, a serpent with a cylindrical trunk, with a short stumpy tail, with fins like a bank of oars in a Roman galley.
-- My uncle, who for a short time had been withdrawn from his absorbing reveries by the novel incidents of this sea fight, fell back again apparently into a brown study.
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：
-- 'Rock bottom!The bottom that has no bottom!The Bol-shevists will have the finest army in the world in a very short time, with the finest mechanical equipment.
-- Grey and clammy and silent, even from the shuffling of the collieries, for the pits were working short time, and today they were stopped altogether.
-- And with brilliant eyes they watched Connie, as she crouched before them, and they gave short sharp clucks of anger and alarm, but chiefly of female anger at being ap-proached.
-- There was no solution, short of death.
-- An' I'd get my men to wear different clothes: appen close red trou-sers, bright red, an' little short white jackets.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The speaker, with a whimsical good humour upon him all the time, looked over the parapet-wall with the greatest disparagement of Marseilles; and taking up a determined position by putting his hands in his pockets and rattling his money at it, apostrophised it with a short laugh.
-- It was short enough and sensible enough, considering that it was a speech at all, and hearty.
-- 'Anything short of speaking the language, I shall be delighted to undertake, I am sure.'
-- A moment before, I thought him wandering in his mind, as he had been for many hours I think he had no consciousness of pain in his short illness when I saw him turn himself in his bed and try to open it.'
-- You said you would be rested enough if you had a short nap.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now hold your shoulder straight, and take short steps, and don't shake hands if you are introduced to anyone.
-- 'She caught up her knitting, which had dropped out of her hands, gave me a sharp look through her specs, and said, in her short way, 'Finish the chapter, and don't be im-pertinent, miss'.'
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