tight是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 紧的； 紧身的， 装紧的； 密封的ad. 紧紧地，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, meeting them at the door just as she was coming out on her way to church, and ceasing in a moment from the close compression of her two red lips, with which she had accompanied the exertion of pulling on a tight glove.
-- Jan held his tongue, as if he had no objection to be pacified to please a friend, and they gradually reached the foot of the ladder, Poorgrass being flattened like a jumping-jack, and the sixpence, for admission, which he had got ready half-an-hour earlier, having become so reeking hot in the tight squeeze of his excited hand that the woman in spangles, brazen rings set with glass diamonds, and with chalked face and shoulders, who took the money of him, hastily dropped it again from a fear that some trick had been played to burn her fingers.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I atenow I couldn't lace tight enough."
-- Some of them were on crutches and how proud were the girls whosolicitously slowed their steps to their escorts' hopping pace!There was one gaudy splash of color among the uniformsthat put the girls' bright finery to shame and stood out in the crowd like a tropical bird a Louisiana Zouave, withbaggy blue and white striped pants, cream gaiters and tight little red jacket, a dark, grinning little monkey of a man,with his arm in a black silk sling.
-- We are fighting the Yankees' new rifles with Revolutionary War muskets, and soonthe blockade will be too tight for even medical supplies to slip in.
-- Miss Hope, death in her face, sat erect beside her, holding her sister's skirt ina tight grasp.
-- Where he had once been lounging and indolent, he was now as alert as a prowling cat, with the tense alertness of onewhose nerves are perpetually drawn as tight as the strings of a violin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- O Heavens, it had come at last!He would find it was weak, he would say it was weak, and I was lost!I held tight to the leg of the table under the cloth, with both hands, and awaited my fate.
-- Always holding tight by the leg of the table with my hands and feet, I saw the miserable creature finger his glass playfully, take it up, smile, throw his head back, and drink the brandy off.
-- So we slanted to the right (where the East was), and Joe pounded away so wonderfully, that I had to hold on tight to keep my seat.
-- Mr. Pumblechook began again when he had recovered; folding his arms tight on his chest and applying the screw.
-- I thanked him, staring at him far beyond the bounds of good manners, and holding tight to Joe.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had just driven the wedge safely in, and everything was going as I wished; but the cursed wedge was too smooth and suddenly sprang out, and the tree closed so quickly that I could not pull out my beautiful white beard; so now it is tight and I cannot get away, and the silly, sleek, milk-faced things laugh!Ugh!how odious you are!'
-- The children, full of pity, at once took tight hold of the little man, and pulled against the eagle so long that at last he let his booty go.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took nine of these sticks, and fixing them firmly in the ground in a quadrangular figure, two feet and a half square, I took four other sticks, and tied them parallel at each corner, about two feet from the ground; then I fastened my hand-kerchief to the nine sticks that stood erect; and extended it on all sides, till it was tight as the top of a drum; and the four parallel sticks, rising about five inches higher than the handkerchief, served as ledges on each side.
-- Every joint of it was well grooved; and the door did not move on hinges, but up and down like a sash, which kept my closet so tight that very little water 178 Gulliver's Travelscame in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In another moment, he stood as he had stood all the time his usual stoop upon him; his pondering face addressed to Mr. Bounderby, with a curious expression on it, half shrewd, half perplexed, as if his mind were set upon unravelling something very difficult; his hat held tight in his left hand, which rested on his hip; his right arm, with a rugged propriety and force of action, very earnestly emphasizing what he said: not least so when it always paused, a little bent, but not withdrawn, as he paused.
-- And she said it with such great condescension as well as with such great compassion for him, that Bounderby, far more disconcerted than if she had thrown her workbox at the mirror, or swooned on the hearthrug, corked up the smelling-salts tight in his pocket, and thought, 'Now confound this woman, who could have even guessed that she would take it in this way!'
-- He had wormed a finger, in the darkness, through a button-hole of Stephen's coat, and was screwing that corner of the garment tight up round and round, in an extraordinary manner.
-- Here was one of the fluffy classes pulled up extremely short by my esteemed friend Mr. Bounderby who, as we know, is not possessed of that delicacy which would soften so tight a hand.
-- As the rope went out, tight and strained, and the windlass creaked, there was not a breath among the one or two hundred men and women looking on, that came as it was wont to come.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The awful combatants held each other in a tight embrace.
-- I was tight bound, and did not succeed in changing my position an inch.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She saw in him the peculiar tight rebuff against anyone of the lower classes who might be really climbing up, which she knew was characteristic of his breed.
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