small是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 小的； 年幼的； 不重要的； 小规模(经营) 的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.
-- Nobody under the table, nobody under the sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little sauce-16 Sons and Loverspan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in his head) upon the hob.
-- 'A small matter,' said the Ghost, 'to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.'
-- Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last.
-- Everybody had something to say about it, but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures the creatures of this chronicle among the rest along the roads that lay before them.
-- The rider stooped, and, casting up his eyes at the guard, handed the passenger a small folded paper.
-- Small tradesmen, who did no business whatever, sometimes unaccountably realised large fortunes, and it was remarkable that nobody in the neigh-bourhood could endure a lamplighter.
-- ' respecting the small property of my poor father, whom I never saw so long dead ' Mr. Lorry moved in his chair, and cast a troubled look to-wards the hospital procession of negro cupids.
-- Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women's heads, which were squeezed dry into infants' mouths; others made small mudembankments, to stem the wine as it ran; others, directed by lookers-on up at high 39windows, darted here and there, to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions; others devoted themselves to the sodden and lee-dyed pieces of the cask, licking, and even champing the moister wine-rotted frag-ments with eager relish.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood in the handsomely furnished apartment, and held between his fingers a small sheet of rose-colored paper, on which some verses were written written indeed by the officer himself; for who has not', at least once in his life, had a lyrical mo-ment?
-- The copying-clerk, or, as the lady said, the brown field-bird, was put into a small cage, close to the Canary, and not far from 'my good Polly.'
-- In his right pocket he had his letter of credit, in the left, his passport, and in a small leathern purse some double louis d'or, carefully sewn up in the bo-som of his waistcoat.
-- And the gardener's boy chopped the Tree into small piec-es; there was a whole heap lying there.
-- They inhabited two garrets; and where the roof of the one house joined that of the other, and the gutter ran along the extreme end of it, there was to each house a small window: one needed only to step over the gutter to get from one window to the other.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here people purposely let their nails grow as long as they will, and link on small saucers by way of studs, so that they can do nothing with their hands."
-- As he approached her, his beautiful eyes shone with a specially tender light, and with a faint, happy, and modestly triumphant smile (so it seemed to Levin), bowing carefully and respectfully over her, he held out his small broad hand to her.
-- "Do tell me something amusing but not spiteful," said the ambassador's wife, a great proficient in the art of that elegant conversation called by the English, small talk.
-- "Drink it up; you positively must drink the brandy, and then seltzer water and a lot of lemon," said Yashvin, standing over Petritsky like a mother making a child take medicine, "and then a little champagne--just a small bottle."
-- And besides, hard though it was for the mother to bear the dread of illness, the illnesses themselves, and the grief of seeing signs of evil propensities in her children--the children themselves were even now repaying her in small joys for her sufferings.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A quarter of an hour later found Fix, with a small bag in his hand, proceeding on board the Mongolia; and, ere many moments longer, the noble steamer rode out at full steam upon the waters of the Red Sea.
-- This fertile territory is watered by numerous small rivers and limpid streams, mostly tributaries of the Godavery.
-- The travellers made a hasty breakfast and started off for Assurghur, after skirting for a little the banks of the small river Tapty, which empties into the Gulf of Cambray, near Surat.
-- They soon reached a small hut, near which, enclosed within some high palings, was the animal in question.
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