slow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 慢的， 不活跃的v. (down) (使) 放慢， 减速，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You must have been very slow about it, Jacob,' Scrooge observed, in a business-like manner, though with humility and deference.
-- The very gold and silver fish, set forth among these choice fruits in a bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant-blooded race, appeared to know that there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and round their little world in slow and passionless excitement.
-- And now two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, screaming that outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own; and bask-ing in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table, and exalted Master Pe-ter Cratchit to the skies, while he (not proud, although his collars nearly choked him) blew the fire, until the slow po-tatoes bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan-lid to be let out and peeled.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that vis-ibly followed and overspread one another, as the waves of an unwholesome sea might do.
-- She was and He was before the slow years of the North Tower ages ago.
-- They tried speaking to him; but, he was so confused, and so very slow to answer, that they took fright at his bewilderment, and agreed for the time to tamper with him no more.
-- He looked at them, and saw in them, without knowing it, the slow sure filing down of misery-worn face and figure, that was to make the meagreness of Frenchmen an English superstition which should survive the truth through the best part of a hundred years.
-- He moved from end to end of his voluptuous bedroom, looking again at the scraps of the day's journey that came unbidden into his mind; the slow toil up the hill at sunset, the setting sun, the descent, the mill, the prison on the crag, the little village in the hollow, the peasants at the fountain, and the mender of roads with his blue cap pointing out the 178 A tale of two citieschain under the carriage.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's a rest to waltz with you," he said to her, as they fell into the first slow steps of the waltz.
-- Spring was slow in unfolding.
-- A hawk flew high over a forest far away with slow sweep of its wings; another flew with exactly the same motion in the same direction and vanished.
-- And immediately after this came the delicious, slow saunter, with his hand on the scythe, during which he could wipe away the streaming sweat, take deep breaths of air, and look about at the long string of mowers and at what was happening around in the forest and the country.
-- Having lost his antagonist, Levin continued the conversation with the gray-whiskered landowner, trying to prove to him that all the difficulty arises from the fact that we don't find out the peculiarities and habits of our laborer; but the landowner, like all men who think independently and in isolation, was slow in taking in any other person's idea, and particularly partial to his own.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The detective, at least, seemed to have found a way; for, after a few moments, he said to Mr. Fogg, "These are long and slow hours, sir, that we are passing on the railway."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not once did he slow down for a cross-road.
-- She had achieved cold hands and a slow circulation, and he was called at midnight.
-- Martin was cramped by the hours of slow riding.
-- He had only a little resented their gossip about his wickedness, only in evenings of slow depression had he meditated upon fleeing from them, but at their laughter he was black furious.
-- His forehead was cold, yet it was greasy with sweat as he babbled to the manageress of rooms and meals, as he prayed that Leora might not have seen the Things in that slow creaking wagon.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He always liked look-ing at those great cart- horses, with their long manes, thick legs, and slow even pace, drawing along a perfect mountain with no appearance of effort, as though it were easier going with a load than without it.
-- In manner he was slow and, as it were, nonchalant, and at the same time studiously free and easy; he made efforts to conceal his self-importance, but it was apparent at every instant.
-- With slow faltering steps, with shaking knees, Raskol-nikov made his way back to his little garret, feeling chilled all over.
-- He heard slow measured steps two flights above.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm a reg'lar Dodman, I am,' said Mr. Peggotty, by which hemeant snail, and this was in allusion to his being slow to go, for hehad attempted to go after every sentence, and had somehow orother come back again; 'but I wish you both well, and I wish youhappy!'
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