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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even these petty ills of life could not ruffle the Major's equanimity; but Paganel, on the contrary, was perfectly exasperated by such trifling annoyances.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But of late they have grown, more candid and are ashamed of the expression 'love of country,' and have annihilated the very spirit of the words as something injurious and petty and undignified.
-- Crime is too often the last re-source of these petty nonentities.
-- (Not that he objected to acts of petty meanness he was always ready for THEM.)
-- I had always heard so much that was evil said of you all more evil than good; as to how small and petty were your interests, how absurd your habits, how shallow your education, and so on.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forthwith Mr. Huxter, conceiving he was witness of some petty larceny, leapt round his counter and ran out into the road to intercept the thief.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It happened that a nail came away with the wood, and projecting, gave a touch of danger to an otherwise petty weapon.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came clattering up to the school-door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry - making or 'quilting-frolic,' to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having, delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook, and was seen scampering, away up the Hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
-- For a moment the terror of Hans Van Ripper's wrath passed across his mind, for it was his Sunday saddle; but this was no time for petty fears; the goblin was hard on his haunches; and (unskilful rider that he was!)
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He collected the rents of whole colonies of filthy streets and alleys by the waterside, advanced money to the seamen and petty officers of merchant vessels, had a share in the ventures of divers mates of East Indiamen, smoked his smuggled cigars under the very nose of the Custom House, and made appointments on 'Change with men in glazed hats and round jackets pretty well every day.
-- This functionary, being, of course, well used to such scenes; looking upon all kinds of robbery, from petty larceny up to housebreaking or ventures on the highway, as matters in the regular course of business; and regarding the perpetrators in the light of so many customers coming to be served at the wholesale and retail shop of criminal law where he stood behind the counter; received Mr Brass's statement of facts with about as much interest and surprise, as an undertaker might evince if required to listen to a circumstantial account of the last illness of a person whom he was called in to wait upon professionally; and took Kit into custody with a decent indifference.
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：
-- "I agree that the Wille zur Macht is a base and petty thing.
-- She loathed its atmosphere of petty vice and petty jealousy and petty art.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wished very much to have the subject continued, though she did not chuse to join in it herself; but nothing more of it was said, and for the first time in her life, she thought Mrs. Jennings deficient either in curiosity after petty information, or in a disposition to communicate it.
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