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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilised mankind, who are dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.
-- It came from the direction of a small dark object under the plantation hedge a shepherd's hut now presenting an outline to which an uninitiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are five windows in each story in the front of the house; all the blinds visible through the small square panes are drawn up awry, so that the lines are all at cross purposes.
-- She expended no small amount of ingenuity in a sort of weeding process of her lodgers, announcing her intention of receiving henceforward none but people who were in every way select.
-- Why should he devote so small a proportion of his money to his expenses?
-- Sometimes it was held that he was one of those petty gamblers who nightly play for small stakes until they win a few francs.
-- It did not escape his eyes that not a crumb was wasted in the house, nor that the wine they drank was made from the second pressing; a 莽卢卢15 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 multitude of small things, which it is useless to speak of in detail here, made him burn to distinguish himself, and his ambition to succeed increased tenfold.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We accordingly brought him back to the deck and restored him to animation by rubbing him with brandy and forcing him to swallow a small quantity.
-- One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquire- 19ment of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.
-- Beaufort had saved but a very small sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes, but it was sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in the mean-time he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a merchant's house.
-- 'It was about seven in the morning, and I longed to ob-tain food and shelter; at length I perceived a small hut, on a rising ground, which had doubtless been built for the con-venience of some shepherd.
-- I ate my breakfast with pleasure and was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little wa-ter when I heard a step, and looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, pass-ing before my hovel.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for all the modesty of her spreadingskirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap,her true self was poorly concealed.
-- They noticed for the first time how her green eyes danced, how deep her dimples were when she laughed, howtiny her hands and feet and what a small waist she had.
-- His own social status was assured because the Tarletons owned ahundred negroes and, like all slaves of large planters, he looked down on small farmers whose slaves were few.
-- Raiford Calvert was made firstlieutenant, because everybody liked Raif, and Abel Wynder, son of a swamp trapper, himself a small farmer, waselected second lieutenant.
-- Too many of their fathers and grandfathershad come up to wealth from the small farmer class for that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- You fail, or you go from my words in any partickler, no matter how small it is, and your heart and your liver shall be tore out, roasted, and ate.
-- The guilty knowledge that I was going to rob Mrs. Joe--I never thought I was going to rob Joe, for I never thought of any of the housekeeping property as his--united to the necessity of always keeping one hand on my bread and butter as I sat, or when I was ordered about the kitchen on any small errand, almost drove me out of my mind.
-- I am far from being sure that I might not have astonished our small congregation by resorting to this extreme measure, but for its being Christmas Day and no Sunday.
-- "It's not much to be particular about," said the sergeant; "it'll do you small good, my man, being in the same plight yourself.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And on each side of her were two rows of burning lights, of all sizes, the greatest as large as the highest and biggest tower in the world, and the least no larger than a small rushlight.
-- The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valour.
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