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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, then, the small ones."
-- The arms and instruments, and a small stock of provisions were divided among the seven travelers, and it was unanimously agreed that the ascent should recommence at once, and, if necessary, should continue part of the night.
-- Many a time, but for their devotion and courage the small band could not have gone on.
-- It was a pretty creature, like a small camel without a hump.
-- The head was small and the body flattened, the legs were long and slender, the skin fine, and the hair the color of cafe au lait.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical as-sistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return.'
-- 'I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities.
-- From my small medical shelf I took down the Medical Directory and turned up the name.
-- I mention this small episode because it assumes some importance in view of the tragedy which followed, but I was convinced at the time that the matter was entirely trivial and that his ex-citement had no justification.
-- 'He had left his own marks all over that small patch of gravel.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a remarkably handsome young fellow of some twenty-eight summers, fair and of middle height; he wore a small beard, and his face was most intelligent.
-- 'I only had a small bundle, containing linen, with me, nothing more.
-- I have told you that I cannot receive you myself very often, but I should like to be of some assistance to you, some small assistance, of a kind that would give you satisfaction.
-- At half-past twelve, the table was laid in the small dining-room, and occasionally the general himself appeared at the family gathering, if he had time.
-- 'At last he began to mount the steps; his legs were tied, so that he had to take very small steps.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Nireus brought three ships from Syme Nireus, who was the handsomest man that came up under Ilius of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus but he was a man of no substance, and had but a small following.
-- The gifts you offer are no small ones, let us then send chosen messengers, who may go to the tent of Achilles son of Peleus without delay.
-- If any good staunch soldier has only a small shield, let him hand it over to a worse man, and take a larger one for himself.'
-- As a flock of daws or starlings fall to screaming and chattering when they see a falcon, foe to all small birds, come soaring near them, even so did the Achaean youth raise a babel of cries as they fled before Ae-neas and Hector, unmindful of their former prowess.
-- Or as one who yokes broad-browed oxen that they may tread barley in a thresh-ing-floor and it is soon bruised small under the feet of the lowing cattle even so did the horses of Achilles trample on the shields and bodies of the slain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And from it he began to produce bottles little fat bottles containing powders, small and slender bottles containing coloured and white fluids, fluted blue bottles labeled Poison, bottles with round bodies and slender necks, large green-glass bottles, large white- glass bottles, bottles with glass stoppers and frosted labels, bottles with fine corks, bottles with bungs, bottles with wooden caps, wine bottles, salad-oil bottles putting them in rows on the chiffonnier, on the mantel, on the table under the window, round the floor, on the bookshelf everywhere.
-- It occurred in the small hours of Whit Monday, the day devoted in Iping to the Club festivities.
-- A small group supported Mrs. Hall, who was picked up in a state of collapse.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that moment, the door of the room flew open and in came four Rabbits as black as ink, carrying a small black coffin on their shoulders.
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