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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Just this, madame; the Patagonians have short legs, and a large bust; or by way of a joke we might say that these natives are six feet high when they are sitting, and only five when they are standing."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sir Charles, as is well known, made large sums of money in South African speculation.
-- It is only two years since he took up his residence at Baskerville Hall, and it is common talk how large were those schemes of recon-struction and improvement which have been interrupted by his death.
-- I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive.
-- My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.
-- 'A large scale map, I presume?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a large fur or rather astra-chan overcoat, which had kept him warm all night, while his neighbour had been obliged to bear the full severity of a Russian November night entirely unprepared.
-- His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Swit-zerland or North Italy was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg.
-- The wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an in-tent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity.
-- Though Rogojin had declared that he left Pskoff secretly, a large collection of friends had assembled to greet him, and did so with profuse waving of hats and shouting.
-- Besides this large residence five-sixths of which was let in flats and lodgings-the general was own-er of another enormous house in the Sadovaya bringing in even more rent than the first.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tlepolemus, son of Hercules, a man both brave and large of stature, brought nine ships of lordly warriors from Rhodes.
-- From this store he will give you a large ransom should he hear of my being alive and at the ships of the Achaeans.'
-- And Jove answered, 'To-morrow morning, Juno, if you choose to do so, you will see the son of Saturn destroying large numbers of the Argives, for fierce Hector shall not cease fighting till he has roused the son of Peleus when they are fighting in dire straits at their ships' sterns about the body of Patroclus.
-- The two came breathless up to him and seized his hands, where-on he began to weep and said, 'Take me alive; I will ransom myself; we have great store of gold, bronze, and wrought iron, and from this my father will satisfy you with a very large ransom, should he hear of my being alive at the ships of the Achaeans.'
-- Our father Antimachus has great store of gold, bronze, and wrought iron, and from this he will satisfy you with a very large ransom should he hear of our being alive at the ships of the Achaeans.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And from it he began to produce bottles little fat bottles containing powders, small and slender bottles containing coloured and white fluids, fluted blue bottles labeled Poison, bottles with round bodies and slender necks, large green-glass bottles, large white- glass bottles, bottles with glass stoppers and frosted labels, bottles with fine corks, bottles with bungs, bottles with wooden caps, wine bottles, salad-oil bottles putting them in rows on the chiffonnier, on the mantel, on the table under the window, round the floor, on the bookshelf everywhere.
-- And suddenly and most wonderfully the door of the room upstairs opened of its own accord, and as they looked up in amazement, they saw descending the stairs the muffled figure of the stranger staring more blackly and blankly than ever with those unreasonably large blue glass eyes of his.
-- They were the soundest boots he had come across for a long time, but too large for him; whereas the ones he had were, in dry weather, a very comfortable fit, but too thin-soled for damp.
-- I had taken a room in London, a large unfurnished room in a big ill-managed lodging-house in a slum near Great Portland Street.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then just overhead came a sound like an iron bedstead being knocked about, and the low angry growling of some large animal.
-- They were rather loose for me, for he was large and long in his limbs.
-- A large launch, with two standing lugs, lay under the lea of the schooner; and into this the strange assortment of goods were swung.
-- The next most obvious deformity was in their faces, al-most all of which were prognathous, malformed about the ears, with large and protuberant noses, very furry or very bristly hair, and often strangely-coloured or strangely-placed eyes.
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