petty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 小的, 次要的; 心胸狭窄的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Darya Alexandrovna regarded staying in the country for the summer as essential for the children, especially for the little girl, who had not succeeded in regaining her strength after the scarlatina, and also as a means of escaping the petty humiliations, the little bills owing to the wood-merchant, the fishmonger, the shoemaker, which made her miserable.
-- He felt that the husband was magnanimous even in his sorrow, while he had been base and petty in his deceit.
-- As a bachelor, when he had watched other people's married life, seen the petty cares, the squabbles, the jealousy, he had only smiled contemptuously in his heart.
-- Although Levin believed himself to have the most exact conceptions of domestic life, unconsciously, like all men, he pictured domestic life as the happiest enjoyment of love, with nothing to hinder and no petty cares to distract.
-- His work, both on the land and on the book, in which the principles of the new land system were to be laid down, had not been abandoned; but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed to him petty and trivial in comparison with the darkness that overspread all life, now they seemed as unimportant and petty in comparison with the life that lay before him suffused with the brilliant light of happiness.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few years later, living on the tiny inheritance from his father, a petty banker, and quite carelessly and cheerfully exhausting it, he was analyzing critically the ptomain theory of disease, and investigating the mechanism of the attenuation of virulence of microorganisms.
-- There will never, in any age, be an effort to end the great epidemics or the petty infections which will not have been influenced by Max Gottlieb's researches, for he was not one who tagged and prettily classified bacteria and protozoa.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This house was let out in tiny tenements and was inhabited by working people of all kinds tailors, locksmiths, cooks, Germans of sorts, girls picking up a living as best they could, petty clerks, etc.
-- Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread and in one mo-ment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and the will is firm!Phew, how utterly petty it all is!'
-- Oh, what had he to do now with his own baseness, with all these petty vanities, offi-cers, German women, debts, police- offices?
-- But there was nothing of the sort: he saw only the faces of clerks absorbed in petty details, then other people, no one seemed to have any concern with him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Give me back my wife,give me back my family, substitute Micawber for the petty wretchwho walks about in the boots at present on my feet, and call uponme to swallow a sword to-morrow, and I'll do it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.
-- Sometimes it was held that he was one of those petty gamblers who nightly play for small stakes until they win a few francs.
-- She had noticed the inflection in her husband's voice, and knew that it would not be safe to retire to the boudoir; like all women who are compelled to study their husbands' characters in order to have their own way, and whose business it is to know exactly how far they can go without endangering a good understanding, she was very careful to avoid petty collisions in domestic life.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And I," thought Scarlett, too stricken now for anything so petty as jealousy, I've got nothing nothing nothingexcept the look on his face when he told me good-by."
-- Suddenly she hated him, hated him with a strength that momentarily overpowered her fear, made it seem petty andsmall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the little safe in young Tom's closet, the safe used for petty purposes, there was a hundred and fifty odd pound.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could see precipices looking like sides of wells, lakes that seemed to be changed into ponds, ponds that looked like puddles, and rivers that were transformed into petty brooks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Intent upon this innocent amusement, Noah put his feet on the table-cloth; and pulled Oliver's hair; and twitched his ears; and expressed his opinion that he was a 'sneak'; and furthermore announced his intention of coming to see him hanged, whenever that desirable event should take place; and entered upon various topics of petty annoyance, like a malicious and ill-conditioned charity-boy as he was.
-- It is a commercial colony of itself: the emporium of petty larceny: visited at early morning, and setting-in of dusk, by silent merchants, who traffic in dark back-parlours, and who go as strangely as they come.
-- Here, the clothesman, the shoe-vamper, and the rag-merchant, display their goods, as sign-boards to the petty thief; here, stores of old iron and bones, and heaps of mildewy fragments of woollen-stuff and linen, rust and rot in the grimy cellars.
-- He had a decided propensity for bullying: derived no inconsiderable pleasure from the exercise of petty cruelty; and, consequently, was (it is needless to say) a coward.
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