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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- These wise and sober thoughts continued all the while the storm lasted, and indeed some time after; but the next day the wind was abated, and the sea calmer, and I began to be a little inured to it; however, I was very grave for all that day, being also a little sea-sick still; but towards night the weather cleared up, the wind was quite over, and a charm-ing fine evening followed; the sun went down perfectly clear, and rose so the next morning; and having little or no wind, and a smooth sea, the sun shining upon it, the sight was, as I thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.
-- I had slept well in the night, and was now no more sea-sick, but very cheerful, looking with wonder upon the sea that was so rough and terrible the day before, and could be so calm and so pleasant in so little a time after.
-- The sixth day of our being at sea we came into Yarmouth Roads; the wind having been contrary and the weather calm, we had made but little way since the storm.
-- While we were in this condition - the men yet labouring at the oar to bring the boat near the shore - we could see (when, our boat mounting the waves, we were able to see the shore) a great many people running along the strand to assist us when we should come near; but we made but slow way towards the shore; nor were we able to reach the shore till, being past the lighthouse at Winterton, the shore falls off to the westward towards Cromer, and so the land broke off a little the violence of the wind.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three thousand pounds!he could spare so considerable a sum with little inconvenience.
-- Mrs. John Dashwood had never been a favourite with any of her husband's family; but she had had no opportunity, till the present, of shewing them with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it.
-- To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.
-- It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages; and why was he to ruin himself, and their poor little Harry, by giving away all his money to his half sisters?
-- If, indeed, it could be restored to our poor little boy ""Why, to be sure," said her husband, very gravely, "that would make great difference.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked at the little slip bearing her sister's address and wondered.
-- A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject--the proper penitent, grovelling at a woman's slipper.
-- "That," said a voice in her ear, "is one of the prettiest little resorts in Wisconsin."
-- There was a little ache in her fancy of all he described.
-- "You will be in Chicago some little time, won't you?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them, that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself.
-- I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away.
-- Tom he made a sign to me kind of a little noise with his mouth and we went creeping away on our hands and knees.
-- Little Tommy Barnes was asleep now, and when they waked him up he was scared, and cried, and said he wanted to go home to his ma, and didn't want to be a robber any more.
-- I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones, too, a little bit.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- my little readers will say immediately.
-- But as he was about to give it the first blow, he stood still with arm uplifted, for he had heard a wee, little voice say in a beseeching tone: "Please be careful!Do not hit me so hard!"
-- He turned frightened eyes about the room to find out where that wee, little voice had come from and he saw no one!He looked under the bench--no one!He peeped inside the closet--no one!He searched among the shavings-- no one!He opened the door to look up and down the street--and still no one!
-- cried the same far-away little voice.
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