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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the manu-script is short and is intimately connected with the affair.
-- It is a short account of the facts elicited at the death of Sir Charles Baskerville which occurred a few days before that date.'
-- Though Sir Charles had resided at Basker-ville Hall for a comparatively short period his amiability of character and extreme generosity had won the affection and respect of all who had been brought into contact with him.
-- The pen has splut-tered twice in a single word, and has run dry three times in a short address, showing that there was very little ink in the bottle.
-- It was a sweet, simple country spot, but I was surprised to observe that by the gate there stood two soldierly men in dark uniforms, who leaned upon their short rifles and glanced keenly at us as we passed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The worst of it all was, though, that the beast Zaleshoff got all the credit of it!I was short and abominably dressed, and stood and stared in her face and never said a word, because I was shy, like an ass!And there was he all in the fashion, pomaded and dressed out, with a smart tie on, bowing and scraping; and I bet anything she took him for me all the while!
-- However, both the friends felt that the thing looked rosy indeed when one day Nastasia informed them that she would give her final answer on the evening of her birthday, which anniversary was due in a very short time.
-- The prince gave a short narrative of what we have heard before, leaving out the greater part.
-- On meeting Colia the prince determined to accompany the general, though he made up his mind to stay as short a time as possible.
-- cried Colia, so much astonished that he stopped short in the middle of the pavement.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- She sat herself down before him, and with her left hand seized his knees, while with her right she caught him under the chin, and besought him, saying: 'Father Jove, if I ever did you service in word or deed among the immortals, hear my prayer, and do honour to my son, whose life is to be cut short so early.
-- When he had found him he said, 'Now, Neptune, you can help the Danaans with a will, and give them victory though it be only for a short time while Jove is still sleeping.
-- His strength then failed him and he let Patroclus' foot drop from his hand, as he fell full length dead upon the body; thus he died far from the fertile land of Larissa, and never repaid his parents the cost of bringing him up, for his life was cut short early by the spear of mighty Ajax.
-- Even so the deed of Achilles will fall some-what short of his word; he will do in part, and the other part he will clip short.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hall appeared after an interval, a little short of breath, but all the fiercer for that.
-- Forthwith everyone all down the street, the sweetstuff seller, cocoanut shy proprietor and his assistant, the swing man, little boys and girls, rustic dandies, smart wenches, smocked elders and aproned gipsies began running towards the inn, and in a miraculously short space of time a crowd of perhaps forty people, and rapidly increasing, swayed and hooted and inquired and exclaimed and suggested, in front of Mrs. Hall's establishment.
-- In another moment Jaffers, cutting short some statement concerning a warrant, had gripped him by the handless wrist and caught his invisible throat.
-- said Jaffers, brought up short by a dim realization of the incongruity of the whole business, "Darn it!Can't use 'em as I can see."
-- His figure inclined to embonpoint; his short limbs accentuated this inclination.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two other men who had escaped so far with me were a man named Helmar, a passenger like myself, and a seaman whose name I don't know, a short sturdy man, with a stammer.
-- I found afterwards that really none were taller than myself; but their bodies were abnormally long, and the thigh-part of the leg short and curiously twisted.
-- 'Short and sharp.
-- Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it; but always I fall short of the things I dream.
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