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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Parsee, leading the others, noiselessly crept through the wood, and in ten minutes they found themselves on the banks of a small stream, whence, by the light of the rosin torches, they perceived a pyre of wood, on the top of which lay the embalmed body of the rajah, which was to be burned with his wife.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This evening Encore was giving one of his small and popular At Home's.
-- He rarely left his small brown weedy house except to return to his laboratory, and few students outside of his classes had ever identified him, but everyone had heard of his tall, lean, dark aloofness.
-- Actually they were extremely small debauches; they rarely went beyond too much lager in the adjacent city of Zenith, or the smiles of a factory girl parading the sordid back avenues, but to Martin, with his pride in taut strength, his joy in a clear brain, they afterward seemed tragic.
-- On the bench were coffee and sandwiches, curiously small and excellent sandwiches, foreign to Martin's lunch- room taste.
-- She trilled, "Dr. Brumfit, you're terribly learned and so on and so forth, and sometimes in English classes I'm simply scared to death of you, but other times you're nothing but a bad small boy, and I won't have you teasing the girls.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the corner a light was burning before a small ikon.
-- At last he opened it; it was a thick heavy letter, weighing over two ounces, two large sheets of note paper were covered with very small handwriting.
-- The student chattered on, saying that she had a sister Lizaveta, whom the wretched little creature was continually beating, and kept in complete bondage like a small child, though Lizaveta was at least six feet high.
-- It was a very small room with a whole shrine of holy images.
-- On the string were two crosses, one of Cyprus wood and one of copper, and an image in sil-ver filigree, and with them a small greasy chamois leather purse with a steel rim and ring.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declaredby the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood whohad taken a lively interest in me several months before there wasany possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that Iwas destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I wasprivileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitablyattaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender,born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
-- said I,putting my small elbows on the table to argue the point.
-- Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under hisarm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turneddown lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand,and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boatbuilders' yards,shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers'lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we cameout upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; whenHam said'Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!'
-- The fish were small and bony, and thepotatoes were a little burnt.
-- I went up there, hearing the dog in the yardbark after me all the way while I climbed the stairs; and, looking asblank and strange upon the room as the room looked upon me, satdown with my small hands crossed, and thought.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had received a good education, but, on succeeding early in life to a small independence, had become indisposed for any of the more homely pursuits in which his brothers were engaged, and had satisfied an active, cheerful mind and social temper by entering into the militia of his county, then embodied.
-- He had still a small house in High-bury, where most of his leisure days were spent; and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society, the next eighteen or twenty years of his life passed cheerfully away.
-- She lived with her single daughter in a very small way, and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady, under such untoward circumstances, can excite.
-- Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible.
-- Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say: 'Mrs.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Oak carried about him, by way of watch, what may be called a small silver clock; in other words, it was a watch as to shape and intention, and a small clock as to size.
-- There was also a cat in a willow basket, from the partly-opened lid of which she gazed with half-closed eyes, and affectionately surveyed the small birds around.
-- At length she drew the article into her lap, and untied the paper covering; a small swing looking-glass was disclosed, in which she proceeded to survey herself attentively.
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