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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The monster became a small island, a rock, a reef, but a reef of indefinite and shifting proportions.
-- Small craft radiated in all directions round the Abraham Lincoln as she lay to, and did not leave a spot of the sea unexplored.
-- A small iron bedstead, a table, some articles for the toilet; the whole lighted by a skylight.
-- Until now, its dynamic force has remained under restraint, and has only been able to produce a small amount of power."
-- "It leads to the small boat," he said.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands.
-- "I won't go into the church," she said suddenly, with such final decision that Ursula immediately halted, turned round, and branched off up a small side path which led to the little private gate of the Grammar School, whose grounds adjoined those of the church.
-- She wore a dress of silky, frail velvet, of pale yellow colour, and she carried a lot of small rose-coloured cyclamens.
-- And she remained for some moments looking only at the small buds out of which the red flickers of the stigma issued.
-- "Perfectly beautiful full of primitive passion ""Isn't it queer that she always likes little things? she must always work small things, that one can put between one's hands, birds and tiny animals.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was slender, and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding; small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck; and eyes, had they been agreeable in expression, that would have been irresistible: fortunately for my susceptible heart, the only sentiment they evinced hovered between scorn and a kind of desperation, singularly unnatural to be detected there.
-- This writing, however, was nothing but a name repeated in all kinds of characters, large and small CATHERINE EA RNSHAW, here and there varied to CATHERINE HEATHCLIFF, and then again to CATHERINE LINTON.
-- Indeed, he would have carpeted and papered a small spare room for a parlour; but his wife expressed such pleasure at the white floor and huge glowing fireplace, at the pewter dishes and delf case, and dog kennel, and the wide space there was to move about in where they usually sat, that he thought it unnecessary to her comfort, and so dropped the intention.
-- The curate might s et as many chapters as he pleased for Catherine to get by heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time I've cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfriended creatures.
-- In the place where she heard Heathcliff termed a 'vulgar young ruffian,' and 'worse than a brute,' she took care not to act like him; but at home she had small inclination to practise politeness that would only be laughed at, and restrain an unruly nature when it would bring her neither credit nor praise.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this was such a wonderfully small sigh, that she wouldn't have heard it at all, if it hadn't come quite close to her ear.
-- he said, in a voice choking with passion, and his eyes grew large and yellow all in a moment, as he pointed with a trembling finger at a small white thing lying under the tree.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Back we will go, the way we came, and small thanks to you big, hulking, chicken-hearted men.
-- A few small coins, a thimble, and some thread and big needles, a piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at the end, his gully with the crooked handle, a pocket compass, and a tinder box were all that they contained, and I began to despair.
-- The cannon-shot was followed after a considerable interval by a volley of small arms.
-- Right below it there was an exceedingly small hollow of green turf, hidden by banks and a thick underwood about knee-deep, that grew there very plentifully; and in the centre of the dell, sure enough, a little tent of goat-skins, like what the gipsies carry about with them in England.
-- But even a small change in the disposition of the weight will produce violent changes in the behaviour of a coracle.
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