little是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 小， 幼小； 不多的ad. /n. 不多， 几乎没有，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Excuse me for a little while, consul."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin was, like most inhabitants of Elk Mills before the Slavo- Italian immigration, a Typical Pure-bred Anglo-Saxon American, which means that he was a union of German, French, Scotch, Irish, perhaps a little Spanish, conceivably a little of the strains lumped together as "Jewish," and a great deal of English, which is itself a combination of primitive Briton, Celt, Phoenician, Roman, German, Dane, and Swede.
-- Martin found himself viewing "Billy," their cadaver--an undersized, blotchy old man with a horrible little red beard on his petrified, vealy face--as a machine, fascinating, complex, beautiful, but a machine.
-- Why, you poor skinny little agnostic, here you have a chance to see the Almighty's handiwork, and all you grab out of it is a feeling that you're real smart.
-- "Of course I don't suppose it'll make any difference to a bunch of wise galoots like you that some day you'll marry a nice bright little woman and ruin her life with your vices.
-- When Robertshaw chirped about fussy little experiments, standard experiments, maiden-aunt experiments, Martin was restless.
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：
-- Though neither by temperament nor conviction a revolu-tionist, Dostoevsky was one of a little group of young men who met together to read Fourier and Proudhon.
-- For this business one should be as little con-spicuous as possible芒聙娄.
-- The little flats in such houses always have bells that ring like that.
-- In a little while, the door was opened a tiny crack: the old woman eyed her visitor with evident distrust through the crack, and nothing could be seen but her little eyes, glittering in the darkness.
-- 12 Crime and Punishment 'And here 芒聙娄 I am again on the same errand,' Raskol-nikov continued, a little disconcerted and surprised at the old woman's mistrust.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 497A Little Cold WaterCHAPTER XXXVIII .
-- There is something strange to me, even now, in the reflection thathe never saw me; and something stranger yet in the shadowyremembrance that I have of my first childish associations with hiswhite gravestone in the churchyard, and of the indefinablecompassion I used to feel for it lying out alone there in the darknight, when our little parlour was warm and bright with fire andcandle, and the doors of our house were- almost cruelly, it seemedto me sometimes- bolted and locked against it.
-- My mother was sitting by the fire, but poorly in health, and verylow in spirits, looking at it through her tears, and despondingheavily about herself and the fatherless little stranger, who wasalready welcomed by some grosses of prophetic pins in a drawerupstairs, to a world not at all excited on the subject of his arrival;my mother, I say, was sitting by the fire, that bright, windy Marchafternoon, very timid and sad, and very doubtful of ever comingalive out of the trial that was before her, when, lifting her eyes asshe dried them, to the window opposite, she saw a strange ladycoming up the garden.
-- asked Miss Betsey, when shehad been silent for a little while, and these motions of her head hadgradually ceased.
-- He was themeekest of his sex, the mildest of little men.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Volume IChapter IEmma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
-- Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as gov-erness, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.
-- The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the pow-4 Emmaer of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvan-tages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments.
-- Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by matrimony, being settled in London, only sixteen miles off, was much beyond her daily reach; and many a long October 6 Emmaand November evening must be struggled through at Hart-field, before Christmas brought the next visit from Isabella and her husband, and their little children, to fill the house, and give her pleasant society again.
-- 'The carriage!But James will not like to put the horses to for such a little way; and where are the poor horses to be while we are paying our visit?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel, perhaps a little piqued by the comely traveller's indifference, glanced back to where he had witnessed her performance over the hedge, and said, "Vanity."
-- The hut stood on little wheels, which raised its floor about a foot from the ground.
-- Yet, although if occasion demanded he could do or think a thing with as mercurial a dash as can the men of towns who are more to the manner born, his special power, morally, physically, and mentally, was static, owing little or nothing to momentum as a rule.
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