large是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 大的， 广大的， 大规模的，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 wore no bonnet or hat, but had enveloped herself in a large cloak, which was carelessly flung over her head as a covering.
-- It may have been observed by persons who go about the shires with eyes for beauty, that in Englishwoman a classically-formed face is seldom found to be united with a figure of the same pattern, the highly-finished features being generally too large for the remainder of the frame; that a graceful and proportionate figure of eight heads usually goes off into random facial curves.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that time one of the rooms was tenanted by a law student, a young man from the neighborhood of Angouleme, one of a large family who pinched and starved themselves to spare twelve hundred francs a year for him.
-- Vauquer's astonished eyes beheld no less than eighteen cambric-fronted shirts, the splendor of their fineness being enhanced by a pair of pins each bearing a large diamond, and connected by a short chain, an ornament which adorned the vermicelli-maker's shirt front.
-- Eugene, in a fury, followed Maxime and the Countess, and the three stood once more face to face by the hearth in the large drawing-room.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to en-counter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.
-- It was, in fact, a sledge, like that we had seen before, which had drifted towards us in the night on a large fragment of ice.
-- It advanced; the heavens were clouded, and I soon felt the rain coming slowly in large drops, but its vio-lence quickly increased.
-- The girl met him at the door, helped to relieve him of his burden, and taking some of the fuel into the cottage, placed it on the fire; then she and the youth went apart into a nook of the cottage, and he showed her a large loaf and a piece of cheese.
-- A few months before my arrival they had lived in a large and luxurious city called Paris, surrounded by friends and possessed of every enjoyment which virtue, re-finement of intellect, or taste, accompanied by a moderate fortune, could afford.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroesand eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.
-- His own social status was assured because the Tarletons owned ahundred negroes and, like all slaves of large planters, he looked down on small farmers whose slaves were few.
-- So, to save the feelings of all and to bring the Troop up tofull strength, Scarlett's father, John Wilkes, Buck Munroe, Jim Tarleton, Hugh Calvert, in fact every large planter inthe County with the one exception of Angus Macintosh, had contributed money to completely outfit the Troop, horseand man.
-- She sat down wearily, tuckingone foot under her, and her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom.
-- Soon she was at the end of the driveway and out on the main road, but she didnot stop until she had rounded a curve that put a large clump of trees between her and the house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I now noticed a decided similarity between the dog's way of eating, and the man's.
-- Mr. Wopsle, united to a Roman nose and a large shining bald forehead, had a deep voice which he was uncommonly proud of; indeed it was understood among his acquaintance that if you could only give him his head, he would read the clergyman into fits; he himself confessed that if the Church was "thrown open," meaning to competition, he would not despair of making his mark in it.
-- "Mrs. Joe," said Uncle Pumblechook, a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to, "I have brought you as the compliments of the season--I have brought you, Mum, a bottle of sherry wine--and I have brought you, Mum, a bottle of port wine."
-- I had heard of Miss Havisham up town,--everybody for miles round had heard of Miss Havisham up town,--as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion.
-- but I pretended not to hear him), and saw that at the side of the house there was a large brewery.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morn-ing, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.
-- A large hedge of thorns soon grew round the palace, and 35every year it became higher and thicker; till at last the old palace was surrounded and hidden, so that not even the roof or the chimneys could be seen.
-- Everything went right for a week or two, and then Dame Ilsabill said, 'Husband, there is not near room enough for us in this cottage; the courtyard and the garden are a great deal too small; I should like to have a large stone castle to 50 Grimms' Fairy Taleslive in: go to the fish again and tell him to give us a castle.'
-- And on each side of her were two rows of burning lights, of all sizes, the greatest as large as the highest and biggest tower in the world, and the least no larger than a small rushlight.
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