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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am sure you will not do that,' said the little creature,' you are such a very old gentleman, and walk so slow yourself.'
-- Free of the room, the boy was not slow in taking his departure; when he had gone, and the child was occupied in clearing the table, the old man said:'I haven't seemed to thank you, sir, for what you have done to-night, but I do thank you humbly and heartily, and so does she, and her thanks are better worth than mine.
-- The old man paused a moment while it was gently closed and fastened on the inside, and satisfied that this was done, walked on at a slow pace.
-- By very slow and feeble degrees his consciousness came back; but the mind was weakened and its functions were impaired.
-- Everything told of long use and quiet slow decay; the very bell-rope in the porch was frayed into a fringe, and hoary with old age.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, on the misty river some incessant, slow work was going on.
-- He was tall, bony, very slow in his movements, and gloomy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was slow work, and the little people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations, so I determined, rather of necessity, to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined.
-- We improve them gradually, because our ideals are vague and tentative, and our knowledge is very limited; because Nature, too, is shy and slow in our clumsy hands.
-- The too-perfect security of the Overworlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, to a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.
-- All the old constellations had gone from the sky, however: that slow movement which is imperceptible in a hundred human lifetimes, had long since rearranged them in unfamiliar groupings.
-- I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A slow sort of country!'
-- 'Well, not the next course,' the Knight said in a slow thoughtful tone: 'no, certainly not the next course.'
-- Alice almost stamped with irritation at the slow drawl in which he spoke.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am afraid I led that boy a dog's life, for as he was new to the work, I had a hundred opportunities of setting him right and putting him down, and I was not slow to profit by them.
-- It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.
-- I could see by the working of his face that he was trying to think, and the process was so slow and laborious that, in my new-found security, I laughed aloud.
-- In any other circumstances it would have been comical to see his slow advance, hesitating as he set down each foot, but holding his closed right hand in front of him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew not what to think, when near me in a slow voice I heard Captain Nemo say:"At one time this ship was called the Marseillais.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she looked with a long, slow look of knowledge at Ursula.
-- A slow mocking smile dawned on Gudrun's face.
-- There was a long slow murmur from Hermione before she broke into speech, saying with a laconic indifference:"It is not always a question of possessions, is it?
-- She looked at him with a long, slow look, malevolent, supercilious.
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