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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
-- In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.
-- Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
-- Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching that place would offer, till the following Monday.
-- And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones so goes the story to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,--a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
-- Give it a little gruel if it is.'
-- Unfortunately for, the experimental philosophy of the female to whose protecting care Oliver Twist was delivered over, a similar result usually attended the operation of her system; for at the very moment when the child had contrived to exist upon the smallest possible portion of the weakest possible food, it did perversely happen in eight and a half cases out of ten, either that it sickened from want and cold, or fell into the fire from neglect, or got half-smothered by accident; in any one of which cases, the miserable little being was usually summoned into another world, and there gathered to the fathers it had never known in this.
-- Now, Mr. Bumble was a fat man, and a choleric; so, instead of responding to this open-hearted salutation in a kindred spirit, he gave the little wicket a tremendous shake, and then bestowed upon it a kick which could have emanated from no leg but a beadle's.
-- Now, will you take a little drop of somethink, Mr.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
-- I dare say Mr. Bing-ley will be very glad to see you; and I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent to his marrying whichever he chooses of the girls; though I must throw in a good word for my little Lizzy.'
-- She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
-- 'Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven's sake!Have a little compassion on my nerves.
-- Lady Lucas quieted her fears a little by starting the idea of his being gone to London only to get a large par-ty for the ball; and a report soon followed that Mr. Bingley was to bring twelve ladies and seven gentlemen with him to the assembly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards the distant line of Italian coast, indeed, it was a little relieved by light clouds of mist, slowly rising from the evaporation of the sea, but it softened nowhere else.
-- So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongues or barking of dogs, with occasional jangling of discordant church bells and rattling of vicious drums, Marseilles, a fact to be strongly smelt and tasted, lay broiling in the sun one day.
-- But his eyes, too close together, were not so nobly set in his head as those of the king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright pointed weapons with little surface to betray them.
-- When he made the little pause, he had looked round the prison-room, as if for certain information.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little Women By Louisa May AlcottPublished by Planet eBook.
-- 'I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pret-ty things, and other girls nothing at all,' added little Amy, with an injured sniff.
-- We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly.
-- 'But I don't think the little we should spend would do any good.
-- 'I planned to spend mine in new music,' said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle holder.
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