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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little speck of life he placed on a wisp of hay before the small stove, where a can of milk was simmering.
-- A rather hard couch, formed of a few corn sacks thrown carelessly down, covered half the floor of this little habitation, and here the young man stretched himself along, loosened his woollen cravat, and closed his eyes.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The front of the lodging-house is at right angles to the road, and looks out upon a little garden, so that you see the side of the house in section, as it were, from the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve.
-- The little garden is no wider than the front of the house; it is shut in between the wall of the street and the partition wall of the neighboring house.
-- The cook sweeps all the refuse out through a little door into the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, and frequently cleanses the yard with copious supplies of water, under pain of pestilence.
-- The chairs are broken-down invalids; the wretched little hempen mats slip away from under your feet without slipping away for good; and finally, the foot-warmers are miserable wrecks, hingeless, charred, broken away about the holes.
-- She is an oldish woman, with a bloated countenance, and a nose like a parrot's beak set in the middle of it; her fat little hands (she is as sleek as a church rat) and her shapeless, slouching figure are in keeping with the room that reeks of misfortune, where hope is reduced to speculate for the meanest stakes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to -induce me to commence this labourious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holi-day mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.
-- I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services.
-- Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can conceive a consolation for my toils which I may nev-er know, that I am wavering in my resolutions.
-- By slow degrees he recovered and ate a little soup, which restored him wonderfully.
-- When my guest was a little recovered I had great trou-ble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose res-toration evidently depended upon entire repose.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A little aloof, as became an aristocrat, lay ablack-spotted carriage dog, muzzle on paws, patiently waiting for the boys to go home to supper.
-- They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives inthe open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in books.
-- Life in the north Georgia county of Clayton wasstill new and, according to the standards of Augusta, Savannah and Charleston, a little crude.
-- From within the house floatedthe soft voice of Scarlett's mother, Ellen O'Hara, as she called to the little black girl who carried her basket of keys.
-- Some time had passed before they realized that Scarlett was having very little to say.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
-- "Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!"
-- After each question he tilted me over a little more, so as to give me a greater sense of helplessness and danger.
-- By this time, my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him, while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.
-- As soon as the great black velvet pall outside my little window was shot with gray, I got up and went downstairs; every board upon the way, and every crack in every board calling after me, "Stop thief!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a time he thought he should like to go a little faster, so he smacked his lips and cried 'Jip!'
-- Here is one that is but little the worse for wear: I would not ask more than the value of your goose for it will you buy?'
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