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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wedding was held with great magnificence and small joy, and out of a tai-lor a king was made.
-- Next morning when the cows were being driven out, the little peasant called the cow-herd in and said: 'Look, I have a little calf there, but it is still small and has to be carried.'
-- At home the small peasant gradually launched out; he built a beautiful house, and the peasants said: 'The small peasant has certainly been to the place where golden snow falls, and people carry the gold home in shovels.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small pur-chase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
-- y father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was Mthe third of five sons.
-- My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learn-ing navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.
-- I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
-- They found 17by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up, with great dexterity, one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Gradgrind, weakly smiling, and giving no other sign of vitality, looked (as she always did) like an indifferently executed transparency of a small female figure, without enough light behind it.
-- Vagabond, errand-boy, vagabond, labourer, porter, clerk, chief manager, small partner, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown.
-- It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
-- 'It's tolerably clear to me,' said Bounderby, 'that the little puss can get small good out of such companionship.'
-- It was in one of the many small streets for which the favourite undertaker (who turned a handsome sum out of the one poor ghastly pomp of the neighbourhood) kept a black ladder, in order that those who had done their daily groping up and down the narrow stairs might slide out of this working world by the windows.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was about to venture upon some misplaced joke on the subject, when a small scrap of parchment fell out of the leaves.
-- We followed, and were very politely introduced by the captain to a small cabin with two standing bed places, neither very well ventilated nor very comfortable.
-- Then without further remark, he put his finger to his lips, frowned darkly, and descended into the small boat which awaited us.
-- My uncle and I came behind, cutting a very tolerable figure upon our small but vigorous animals.
-- After looking keenly I found a small town of that name on the borders of the Hvalfjord, about four miles from Reykjavik.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could wheel himself about in a wheeled chair, and he had a bath-chair with a small motor attachment, so he could drive himself slow-ly round the garden and into the line melancholy park, of which he was really so proud, though he pretended to be flippant about it.
-- Fellows with swaying waists fucking little jazz girls with small boy buttocks, like two collar studs!Do you mean that sort of love?
-- Round the near horizon went the haze, opales-cent with frost and smoke, and on the top lay the small blue sky; so that it was like being inside an enclosure, always in-side.
-- The day had greyed over; the small blue sky that had poised low on its circular rims of haze was closed in again, the lid was down, there was a raw coldness.
-- He was a more excited lover that night, with his strange, small boy's frail nakedness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hand with which he held the grating (seamed all over the back with ugly scratches newly healed), was unusually small and plump; would have been unusually white but for the prison grime.
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