snail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 蜗牛； 行动缓慢的人，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The green damp hung upon the low walls; the tracks of the snail and slug glistened in the light of the candle; but all was still as death.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Have I dreamed of so many snows that my people were scattered like floating sands of Yengeese, more plenty than the leaves on the trees!The arrow of Ta-menund would not frighten the fawn; his arm is withered like the branch of a dead oak; the snail would be swifter in the race; yet is Uncas before him as they went to battle against the pale faces!Uncas, the panther of his tribe, the eldest son of the Lenape, the wisest Sagamore of the Mohi-cans!Tell me, ye Delawares, has Tamenund been a sleeper for a hundred winters?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'At a hundred hu-man paces from here there sits a little snail in her house, on a gooseberry bush; she is quite lonely, and old enough to be married.
-- In other respects the whole went off very quietly, for the old folks could not bear noise and merriment; but old Dame Snail made a brilliant speech.
-- Father Snail could not speak, he was too much affected; and so they gave them as a dowry and inheritance, the whole forest of burdocks, and said what they had always said that it was the best in the world; and if they lived honestly and decently, and increased and multiplied, they and their children would once in the course of time come to the man-or-house, be boiled black, and laid on silver dishes.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally, after a full half hour, a top-floor window (the house had four stories) opened and Pinocchio saw a large Snail look out.
-- "My boy, I am a snail and snails are never in a hurry."
-- At that second knock, a window on the third floor opened and the same Snail looked out.
-- "My boy," answered the Snail in a calm, peaceful voice, "my dear boy, I am a snail and snails are never in a hurry."
-- Suddenly he heard his name called, and looking around to see whence the voice came, he noticed a large snail crawling out of some bushes.
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