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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That,' added Mr Plornish, dwelling on the subject with a slow thoughtfulness that appeared to have no connection with any specific object, and to lead him nowhere, 'that is about what they are, you may believe me or not, as you think proper.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We 'did' Lon-don to our heart's content, thanks to Fred and Frank, and were sorry to go away, for though English people are slow to take you in, when they once make up their minds to do it they cannot be outdone in hospitality, I think.
-- Now, Mr. Bhaer was a diffident man and slow to offer his own opinions, not because they were unsettled, but too sin-cere and earnest to be lightly spoken.
-- Often when she woke Jo found Beth reading in her well-worn little book, heard her singing softly, to beguile the sleepless night, or saw her lean her face upon her hands, while slow tears dropped through the transparent fingers, and Jo would lie watching her with thoughts too deep for tears, feeling that Beth, in her simple, unselfish way, was trying to wean herself from the dear old life, and fit her-self for the life to come, by sacred words of comfort, quiet prayers, and the music she loved so well.
-- But when our first little passion has been crushed, we are apt to be wary and slow in making a second trial, so Laurie let the days pass, enjoying every hour, and leaving to chance the utterance of the word that would put an end to the first and sweetest part of his new romance.
-- There were slow boys and bash-ful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the 'Bhaer-garten', though some people pre-dicted that his admission would ruin the school.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then seating himself before it, you would have seen him intently study the various lines and shadings which there met his eye; and with slow but steady pencil trace additional courses over spaces that before were blank.
-- It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.
-- Full in this rapid wake, and many fathoms in the rear, swam a huge, humped old bull, which by his comparatively slow progress, as well as by the unusual yellowish incrustations overgrowing him, seemed afflicted with the jaundice, or some other infirmity.
-- But they worked rather slow and talked very fast, and seemed in anything but a good humor.
-- At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months: at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.
-- The worm does not work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame.
-- 'Yes, I am,' replied the man, who seemed a little the worse--or better, as the case might be--for drinking; 'and not slow about it neither.
-- Mr. Bumble made no reply; but in a slow and dignified manner, put his arm round the matron's waist.
-- 'Brittles always was a slow boy, ma'am,' replied the attendant.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whilst wandering on in this slow manner, they were again surprised, and Elizabeth's aston-ishment was quite equal to what it had been at first, by the sight of Mr. Darcy approaching them, and at no great dis-tance.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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：
-- The Colonel, too! perhaps scarcely less an object of pity! Oh! how slow was the progress of time which yet kept them in ignorance!
-- The sisters set out at a pace, slow as the feebleness of Marianne in an exercise hitherto untried since her illness required; and they had advanced only so far beyond the house as to admit a full view of the hill, the important hill behind, when pausing with her eyes turned towards it, Marianne calmly said,"There, exactly there," pointing with one hand, "on that projecting mound, there I fell; and there I first saw Willoughby."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not help clinging and protesting in a mild, irritating, and ineffectual way, however--a way that simply widened the breach by slow degrees.
-- We are going very slow this evening.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The widow said I was coming along slow but sure, and doing very satisfactory.
-- That law trial was a slow business appeared like they warn't ever going to get started on it; so every now and then I'd borrow two or three dollars off of the judge for him, to keep from getting a cowhiding.
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