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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most had their shoulders hunched clum-sily, and their short forearms hung weakly at their sides.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mowgli laughed a little short ugly laugh, for a stone had hit him in the mouth.
-- He turned and galloped (a seal can gallop very swiftly for a short time) back to the sea; his little new mustache bristling with hor-ror.
-- Kala Nag stood ten fair feet at the shoulders, and his tusks had been cut off short at five feet, and bound round the ends, to prevent them splitting, with bands of copper; but he could do more with those stumps than any untrained elephant could do with the real sharpened ones.
-- Once they started and put their ears forward when they heard the chinking of a leg iron in the forest, but it was Pudmini, Petersen Sahib's pet elephant, her chain snapped short off, grunting, snuffling up the hillside.
-- But, since native children have no nerves worth speaking of, in two hours he was lying very contentedly in Petersen Sahib's hammock with Petersen Sahib's shooting-coat un-der his head, and a glass of warm milk, a little brandy, with a dash of quinine, inside of him, and while the old hairy, scarred hunters of the jungles sat three deep before him, looking at him as though he were a spirit, he told his tale in short words, as a child will, and wound up with: 'Now, if I lie in one word, send men to see, and they will find that the elephant folk have trampled down more room in their dance-room, and they will find ten and ten, and many times ten, tracks leading to that dance-room.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A sky-blue coat, with short and broad skirts and low cape, exposed a long, thin neck, and longer and thinner legs, to the worst animadver-sions of the evil-disposed.
-- It is impossible to say what unlooked-for remark this short and silent communication, between two such singular men, might have elicited from the white man, had not his active curiosity been again drawn to other objects.
-- As they traversed that short distance, not a voice was heard among them; but a slight exclamation proceed-ed from the younger of the females, as the Indian runner glided by her, unexpectedly, and led the way along the mil-itary road in her front.
-- Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the forest could not fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at so short a distance in advance.
-- A tomahawk and scalping knife, of English manufacture, were in his girdle; while a short military rifle, of that sort with which the policy of the whites armed their savage al-lies, lay carelessly across his bare and sinewy knee.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold, which her great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saar dam; the tempting stomacher of the olden time, and withal a provok-ingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round.
-- He was broad-shouldered and double-jointed, with short curly black hair, and a bluff but not unpleasant countenance, having a mingled air of fun and arrogance From his Herculean frame and great powers of limb he had received the nickname of BROM BONES, by which he was universally known.
-- He rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers'; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings.
-- The sons, in short square-skirted coats, with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fash-ion of the times, especially if they could procure an eelskin for the purpose, it being esteemed throughout the country as a potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.
-- There was the doughty doughnut, the tender olykoek, and the crisp and crumbling cruller; sweet cakes and short cakes, ginger cakes and honey cakes, and the whole fam-ily of cakes.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a fat little man, with short legs, young still he could not have been more than thirty but prematurely bald.
-- He gave a short laugh.
-- He was a very lean man, of no more than average height, with gray hair cut short and a stubbly gray moustache.
-- Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.
-- I left Alexandria next day, and I forgot about Abraham till a little while ago, when I was dining with another old friend in the profession, Alec Carmichael, who was in England on short leave.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, preceded by the dog, who seemed to invite them by short barks to come with him, and followed by the reporter and the boy, he dashed out, after having put up in his handkerchief the remains of the supper.
-- They could now hear and reply to each other, and the lad having pronounced the name of Cyrus Harding, Top gave a few short barks, as much as to say that his master was saved.
-- At half-past five the little band arrived at the precipice, and a short time after at the Chimneys.
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