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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hope we shall soon become acquainted with each other, and that the company of these ladies will make our voyage in the SCOTIA appear as short as agreeable."
-- Well now, the man at the helm has only to give a turn at the wheel, and the DUNCAN will sail as easily to Calcutta as to Concepcion; and since it is only a pleasure trip that you are—"His proposal was met by such grave, disapproving shakes of the head, that he stopped short before the sentence was completed; and Lady Helena said:"Monsieur Paganel, if we were only on a pleasure trip, I should reply, ‘Let us all go to India together,' and I am sure Lord Glenarvan would not object; but the DUNCAN is going to bring back shipwrecked mariners who were cast away on the shores of Patagonia, and we could not alter such a destination."
-- "Just this, madame; the Patagonians have short legs, and a large bust; or by way of a joke we might say that these natives are six feet high when they are sitting, and only five when they are standing."
-- But just as exhaustion was about to make short work of any further ascent, and Glenarvan's heart began to sink as he thought of the snow lying far as the eye could reach, and of the intense cold, and saw the shadow of night fast overspreading the desolate peaks, and knew they had not a roof to shelter them, suddenly the Major stopped and said, in a calm voice, "A hut!"
-- In a very short time I shall be able to thank the Patagonian in the language he speaks so well."
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a short silence which succeeded the first surprise and enquiries of meeting, Marianne asked Edward if he came directly from London.
-- She was sitting near the window, and as soon as Sir John perceived her, he left the rest of the party to the ceremony of knocking at the door, and stepping across the turf, obliged her to open the casement to speak to him, though the space was so short between the door and the window, as to make it hardly possible to speak at one without being heard at the other.
-- She was short and plump, had a very pretty face, and the finest expression of good humour in it that could possibly be.
-- A short pause succeeded this speech, which was first broken by Miss Steele, who seemed very much disposed for conversation, and who now said rather abruptly, "And how do you like Devonshire, Miss Dashwood?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The short gentleman turned about towards Carrie, and she arose and came forward.
-- She was glad when the short half hour was over and the wheels began to whirr again.
-- One short song the young lady played in a most soulful and tender mood.
-- A few weeks later Drouet, in his peregrinations, encountered one of his well-dressed lady acquaintances in Chicago on his return from a short trip to Omaha.
-- He agreed, but it was with short grace.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once when I turned short and dodged under his arm he made a grab and got me by the jacket between my shoulders, and I thought I was gone; but I slid out of the jacket quick as lightning, and saved myself.
-- One man said it was getting towards the long days and the short nights now.
-- T'other one said THIS warn't one of the short ones, he reckoned and then they laughed, and he said it over again, and they laughed again; then they waked up an-other fellow and told him, and laughed, but he didn't laugh; he ripped out something brisk, and said let him alone.
-- If I see a stump, I took it for a man; if I trod on a stick and broke it, it made me feel like a person had cut one of my breaths in two and I only got half, and the short half, too.
-- We fixed up a short forked stick to hang the old lantern on, because we must always light the lantern whenever we see a steamboat coming down-stream, to keep from getting run over; but we wouldn't have to light it for up-stream boats unless we see we was in what they call a 'crossing"; for the river was pretty high yet, very low banks being still a little under wa-ter; so up-bound boats didn't always run the channel, but hunted easy water.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime that rascal, Pinocchio, free now from the clutches of the Carabineer, was running wildly across fields and meadows, taking one short cut after another toward home.
-- But his happiness lasted only a short time, for just then he heard someone saying: "Cri-cri-cri!"
-- There are two kinds of lies, lies with short legs and lies with long noses.
-- Going like the wind, Pinocchio took but a very short time to reach the shore.
-- Luckily, by this time, he was very near the shore, and the sea was in sight; in fact, only a few short steps away.
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