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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After he had travelled a little way, he spied a dog lying by the roadside and panting as if he were tired.
-- The ass brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cock screamed; and then they all broke through the window at once, and came tumbling into the room, amongst the broken glass, with a most hideous clatter!The robbers, who had been not a little 25frightened by the opening concert, had now no doubt that some frightful hobgoblin had broken in upon them, and scampered away as fast as they could.
-- Your master, you know, goes out every morning very early with his wife into the field; and they take their little child with them, and lay it down behind the hedge in the shade while they are at work.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The style is very plain and simple; and the only fault I find is, that the author, after the manner of travel-lers, is a little too circumstantial.
-- This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages re-lating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together with the min-ute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the account of longitudes and latitudes; wherein I have reason to apprehend, that Mr. Gulliver may be a little dissatisfied.
-- But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?
-- Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consid-er, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corrup-tions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my in- tentions.
-- In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advanc-ing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.
-- In such terms, no doubt, substituting the words 'boys and girls,' for 'sir,' Thomas Gradgrind now presented Thomas Gradgrind to the little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts.
-- said Mr. Gradgrind, for the general behoof of all the little pitchers.
-- But, whereas the girl was so dark-eyed and dark-haired, that she seemed to receive a deeper and more lustrous colour from the sun, when it shone upon her, the boy was so light-eyed and light-haired that the self-same rays appeared to draw out of him what little colour he ever possessed.
-- A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people's too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat like a bolus, always to be heard of at the bar of his little Public-office, ready to fight all England.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
-- To me there was nothing like pebbles --and if my uncle had been in a little less of a fury, we should have been the happiest of families.
-- It was one of those yellow-leaved volumes now rarely found on stalls, and to me it appeared to possess but little value.
-- I was, in fact, fighting against an insurmountable difficulty; my brain was almost on fire; my eyes were strained with staring at the parchment; the whole absurd collection of letters appeared to dance before my vision in a number of black little groups.
-- And I knew that by speaking one little word all this suffering would cease.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes.
-- One was less in love with the boy afterwards, and a little inclined to hate him, as if he had trespassed on one's privacy and in-ner freedom.
-- Somewhere else they were a little rebuffed, though they did not know it.
-- If the truth must be told, he was just a little bit frightened of middle-and lower-class humanity, and of foreigners not of his own class.
-- In fact everything was a little ridiculous, or very ri-diculous: certainly everything connected with authority, whether it were in the army or the government or the uni-versities, was ridiculous to a degree.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- LITTLE DORRITCHAPTER 1.
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