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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only a second passed, a second that seemed an age, and the enormous bird reappeared, carrying a heavy load and flying at a slow rate.
-- The sails were gradually unfurled; the five hands made slow work.
-- Neither heat nor rain increased the discomfort of the journey, but the travelers were so reduced by the trials they had undergone, that they made very slow progress; and they longed to arrive at the mission station.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His rage so blinded him that he had not even been able to detect that this 'idiot,' whom he was abusing to such an extent, was very far from being slow of comprehension, and had a way of taking in an im-pression, and afterwards giving it out again, which was very un-idiotic indeed.
-- 'Suddenly the monster reappeared; it crawled slowly across the room and made for the door, as though with some fixed intention, and with a slow movement that was more horrible than ever.
-- Had I been fifteen years old I should probably have been terribly frightened when the French arrived, as my mother was (who had been too slow about clearing out of Moscow); but as I was only just ten I was not in the least alarmed, and rushed through the crowd to the very door of the palace when Napoleon alighted from his horse.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun was beginning to beat upon the fields, fresh ris-en into the vault of heaven from the slow still currents of deep Oceanus, when the two armies met.
-- 'Sir,' said he, 'these young war-riors are pressing you hard, your force is spent, and age is heavy upon you, your squire is naught, and your horses are slow to move.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Henfrey not only took off the hands of the clock, and the face, but extracted the works; and he tried to work in as slow and quiet and unassuming a manner as possible.
-- He came towards me in three very slow steps, and stood quite close.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The creature had exactly the mild but repulsive features of a sloth, the same low forehead and slow gestures.
-- The change was slow and inevitable.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'By the Broken Lock that freed me,' said Bagheera, when twilight had fallen, 'thou art no slow goer!'
-- That bite par-alyzed Karait, and Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail, after the custom of his family at dinner, when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow mongoose, and if he wanted all his strength and quickness ready, he must keep himself thin.
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：
-- No sooner were these females seated, than their atten-dant sprang lightly into the saddle of the war-horse, when the whole three bowed to Webb, who in courtesy, awaited their parting on the threshold of his cabin and turning their horses' heads, they proceeded at a slow amble, followed by their train, toward the northern entrance of the encamp-ment.
-- While he hesitated how to proceed, Le Subtil cautiously raised himself to his feet, though with a motion so slow and guarded, that not the slightest noise was produced by the change.
-- When assured that all was still, and unable to detect, even by the aid of his practiced senses, any sign of his approaching foes, he would deliberately re-sume his slow and guarded progress.
-- 'Few live who know the blockhouse was ever raised,' was the slow and musing answer; 'tis not often that books are made, and narratives written of such a scrimmage as was here fou't atween the Mohicans and the Mohawks, in a war of their own waging.
-- They then approached, though with slow and cautious steps, pausing every instant to look at the building, like startled deer whose curiosity struggled powerfully with their awakened appre-hensions for the mastery.
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：
-- I tried to persuade myself than an obscure feeling of revolt had been gradually coming to a head in his slow mind, but to challenge this was the undoubted fact that he had never shown any impatience with the monotony of his life.
-- It was a slow smile, starting and sometimes ending in the eyes; it was very sensual, neither cruel nor kindly, but suggested rather the inhuman glee of the satyr.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And how slow and still the time did drag along.
-- Next morning I said it was getting slow and dull, and I wanted to get a stirring up some way.
-- We went sneaking down the slope of it to labboard, in the dark, towards the texas, feel-ing our way slow with our feet, and spreading our hands out to fend off the guys, for it was so dark we couldn't see no sign of them.
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