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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Peggotty was not slow to respond, and ratify the treaty offriendship by giving me one of her best hugs.
-- As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars,and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones ofwhich may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my 164childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting inthe crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, tothe echo of Captain Hopkins's voice!When my thoughts go backnow, to that slow agony of my youth, I wonder how much of thehistories I invented for such people hangs like a mist of fancy overwell-remembered facts!When I tread the old ground, I do notwonder that I seem to see and pity, going on before me, aninnocent romantic boy, making his imaginative world out of suchstrange experiences and sordid things.
-- said Mr. Barkis,with a slow rheumatic smile.
-- If a client were slow to settle his bill ofcosts, Mr. Jorkins was resolved to have it paid; and howeverpainful these things might be (and always were) to the feelings ofMr. Spenlow, Mr. Jorkins would have his bond.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was always quick and assured: Isabella slow and diffident.
-- 'I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey.'
-- They must keep as much together as they could;' and James was talked to, and given a charge to go very slow and wait for the other carriage.
-- I dared not address her openly; my difficulties in the then state of Enscombe must be too well known to require definition; and I was fortunate enough to prevail, before we parted at Weymouth, and to induce the most up-right female mind in the creation to stoop in charity to a secret engagement. Had she refused, I should have gone mad. But you will be ready to say, what was your hope in doing this? What did you look forward to? To any thing, every thing to time, chance, circumstance, slow effects, sudden bursts, perseverance and weariness, health and sick-ness.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The acquaintanceship might, however, have ended in a slow forgetting, but for an incident which occurred at the end of the same week.
-- The maltster cleared his throat in an exaggerated form for emphasis, and elongating his gaze to the remotest point of the ashpit, said, in the slow speech justifiable when the importance of a subject is so generally felt that any mannerism must be tolerated in getting at it, "Well, I don't mind the year I were born in, but perhaps I can reckon up the places I've lived at, and so get it that way.
-- Night had always been the time at which he saw Bathsheba most vividly, and through the slow hours of shadow he tenderly regarded her image now.
-- It was one of the usual slow sunrises of this time of the year, and the sky, pure violet in the zenith, was leaden to the northward, and murky to the east, where, over the snowy down or ewe-lease on Weatherbury Upper Farm, and apparently resting upon the ridge, the only half of the sun yet visible burnt rayless, like a red and flameless fire shining over a white hearthstone.
-- Oak drew a slow breath, looked sadly into the bright ashpit, and seemed lost in thoughts not of the most hopeful hue.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as she saw that her blandishments were in vain, and 莽卢卢11 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 that her outlay on her toilette was money thrown away, she was not slow to discover the reason of his indifference.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By slow degrees he recovered and ate a little soup, which restored him wonderfully.
-- Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.
-- By very slow degrees, and with frequent relapses that alarmed and grieved my friend, I recovered.
-- I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those instru-ments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death.
-- I I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the strange half-light, the tall pines of the river swamp, so warmly green in the sunshine, were black against thepastel sky, an impenetrable row of black giants hiding the slow yellow water at their feet.
-- Somewhere in her brain, a slow fire rose and rage began to blot out everything else.
-- But the South was aflamewith war, events roared along as swiftly as if carried by a mighty wind and the slow tempo of the old days was gone.
-- Then the fiddles, bull fiddles, accordions, banjos and knuckle-bones broke into a slowrendition of "Lorena" too slow for dancing, the dancing would come later when the booths were emptied of theirwares.
-- His voice was oddly pleasant to the ear, the well-modulated voice of a gentleman, resonant and overlaid with theflat slow drawl of the Charlestonian.
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