shrink是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 收缩; 退缩, 畏缩，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't shrink from anything I say.
-- As if all that had happened since the garret time were a momentary fancy, or a dream, Mr. Lorry saw him shrink into the exact figure that Defarge had had in keeping.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dolly did not shrink away, but her face did not lose its frigid expression.
-- "Why does Kitty shrink from me?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's all Rodya, precious Rodya, her first born!For such a son who would not sacrifice such a daughter!Oh, loving, over-partial hearts!Why, for his sake we would not shrink even from Sonia's fate.
-- I shouldn't have been a Napoleon, but I might have been a major, he-he!Well, I'll tell you the whole truth, my dear fellow, about this special case I mean: actual fact and a man's temperament, my dear sir, are weighty matters and it's astonishing how they some-times deceive the sharpest calculation!I listen to an old man am speaking seriously, Rodion Romanovitch' (as he said this Porfiry Petrovitch, who was scarcely five-and-thirty, actually seemed to have grown old; even his voice changed and he seemed to shrink together) 'Moreover, I'm a candid man 芒聙娄 am I a candid man or not?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mowld o' thechurchyard don't hold any that the folk shrink away from, more.'
-- I lookedat her again by and by, and saw her shrink into her corner, and puther gloved hand to her forehead.
-- Its only sign of animationwas to shrink from mine; and then she glided from the chair, and,creeping to the other side of her uncle, bowed herself, silently andtrembling still, upon his breast.
-- My aunt being supremelyindifferent to Mrs. Crupp's opinion and everybody else's, andrather favouring than discouraging the idea, Mrs. Crupp, of latethe bold, became within a few days so faint-hearted, that ratherthan encounter my aunt upon the staircase, she would endeavourto hide her portly form behind doors- leaving visible, however, awide margin of flannel petticoat- or would shrink into darkcorners.
-- Isaw him set it down, look at the picture she was so like, put hishand to his forehead, and shrink back in his elbowchair.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No," said Bathsheba, attempting to shrink away.
-- You wouldn't let a dog suffer what I have suffered, could you but know it!Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you never will know.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly and not shrink from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished.
-- And now, be-hold, with the first imagination of danger, or, if you will, the first mighty and terrific trial of your courage, you shrink away and are content to be handed down as men who had not strength enough to endure cold and peril; and so, poor souls, they were chilly and returned to their warm firesides.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned his head and gave her one look, a look that made her drop his arm and shrink back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It seems," said Herbert, "--there's a bandage off most charmingly, and now comes the cool one,--makes you shrink at first, my poor dear fellow, don't it?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What a stranger can want at the Bank at this time of the evening, unless he comes upon some business for which he is too late, I don't know,' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'but I hold a charge in this establishment from Mr. Bounderby, and I will never shrink from it.
-- And I saw him shrink away among the people.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and to shrink childishly, in her spoilt way, a little closer to him.
-- She went down, not easily hiding how much she was inclined to shrink and tremble; for the appearance of this traveller was particularly disagreeable to her.
-- She did not shrink under his evil leer, or avoid it.
-- When she pleaded to me her youth, and his wretched and hard life (that was her phrase for the virtuous training he had belied), and the desecrated ceremony of marriage there had secretly been between them, and the terrors of want and shame that had overwhelmed them both when I was first appointed to be the instrument of their punishment, and the love (for she said the word to me, down at my feet) in which she had abandoned him and left him to me, was it my enemy that became my footstool, were they the words of my wrath that made her shrink and quiver!Not unto me the strength be ascribed; not unto me the wringing of the expiation!'
-- Not less so, when she added:'Even now, I see you shrink from me, as if I had been cruel.'
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