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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And after the stranger had gone to bed, which he did about half-past nine, Mr. Hall went very aggressively into the parlour and looked very hard at his wife's furniture, just to show that the stranger wasn't master there, and scrutinised closely and a little contemptuously a sheet of mathematical computations the stranger had left.
-- There he stood on the dark little landing, wondering what it might be that he had seen.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the first day we said little to one another, and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon, or watched, with eyes that grew larger and more haggard every day, the misery and weakness gaining upon our companions.
-- I remember how my head swayed with the seas, and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down; but I also remember as distinctly that I had a persuasion that I was dead, and that I thought what a jest it was that they should come too late by such a little to catch me in my body.
-- It never entered my head to attempt to attract attention, and I do not remember anything distinctly after the sight of her side until I found myself in a little cabin aft.
-- 'It's a little trader from Arica and Callao.
-- Montgomery's movement to follow me released my at-tention, and I turned and looked about me at the flush deck of the little schooner.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: 'Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves.
-- Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
-- Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, sing-song whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it.
-- The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap.
-- Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In point of fact, the country which is the scene of the following tale has undergone as little change, since the historical events alluded to had place, as almost any oth-er district of equal extent within the whole limits of the United States.
-- But, beyond this, the enterprise and energy of a people who have done so much in other places have done little here.
-- By uniting the several detachments of his command, this officer might have arrayed nearly double that number of combatants against the enterprising Frenchman, who had ventured so far from his reinforcements, with an army but little superior in numbers.
-- After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extrem-ity of the portage.
-- 'This beast, I rather conclude, friend, is not of home rais-ing, but is from foreign lands, or perhaps from the little island itself over the blue water?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
-- If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
-- However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
-- They are like those little nooks of still water, which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fortunately, there is no need for me to risk the adventure, since my friend, Mr. Edward Leggatt, an able writer as well as an admirable painter, has exhaustively discussed Charles Strickland's work in a little book芒聭麓 which is a charming example of a style, for the most part, less happily cultivated in England than in France.
-- It is not strange, then, that those who wrote of him should have eked out their scanty recollections with a lively fancy, and it is evident that there was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible, in his character something outrageous, and in his fate not a little that was pathetic.
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