tall是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (身材) 高的， 高大的； 夸大的， 离谱的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lizaveta was of lower rank than her sister, un-married and awfully uncouth in appearance, remarkably tall with long feet that looked as if they were bent outwards.
-- He became aware of someone standing on the right side of him; he looked and saw a tall woman with a kerchief on her head, with a long, yellow, wasted face and red sunken eyes.
-- He was a man about fifty, rather tall and thickly set, with broad high shoulders which made him look as though he stooped a little.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The evening wind made such a disturbancejust now, among some tall old elmtrees at the bottom of the garden,that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing thatway.
-- On the ground-floor isPeggotty's kitchen, opening into a back yard; with a pigeon-houseon a pole, in the centre, without any pigeons in it; a great dog-kennel in a corner, without any dog; and a quantity of fowls that 21look terribly tall to me, walking about, in a menacing and ferociousmanner.
-- As I laid down my pen,a moment since, to think of it, the air from the sea came blowing inagain, mixed with the perfume of the flowers; and I saw the old-fashioned furniture brightly rubbed and polished, my aunt'sinviolable chair and table by the round green fan in thebowwindow, the drugget-covered carpet, the cat, the kettle-holder,the two canaries, the old china, the punch-bowl full of dried rose-leaves, the tall press guarding all sorts of bottles and pots, and,wonderfully out of keeping with the rest, my dusty self upon thesofa, taking note of everything.
-- Opposite to the tall oldchimney-piece, were two portraits: one of a gentleman with greyhair (though not by any means an old man) and black eyebrows,who was looking over some papers tied together with red tape; theother, of a lady, with a very placid and sweet expression of face,who was looking at me.
-- God knows I had no part in itwhile they remained there, but it pained me to think of the dearold place as altogether abandoned; of the weeds growing tall in thegarden, and the fallen leaves lying thick and wet upon the paths.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was obliged to be repeated before it could be be-lieved; and Mr. Knightley actually looked red with surprize and displeasure, as he stood up, in tall indignation, and said, 'Then she is a greater simpleton than I ever believed her.
-- 'No I have never seen Mr. Elton,' she replied, starting on this appeal; 'is he is he a tall man?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tall lank pony seemed used to such doings, and ambled along unconcerned.
-- Jacob stooped to the God-forgive-me, which was a two-handled tall mug standing in the ashes, cracked and charred with heat: it was rather furred with extraneous matter about the outside, especially in the crevices of the handles, the innermost curves of which may not have seen daylight for several years by reason of this encrustation thereon formed of ashes accidentally wetted with cider and baked hard; but to the mind of any sensible drinker the cup was no worse for that, being incontestably clean on the inside and about the rim.
-- they replied, looking into the very midst of Laban Tall as if to meet his words half-way down his throat.
-- Something in the exact arch of her upper unbroken row of teeth, and in the keenly pointed corners of her red mouth when, with parted lips, she somewhat defiantly turned up her face to argue a point with a tall man, suggested that there was potentiality enough in that lithe slip of humanity for alarming exploits of sex, and daring enough to carry them out.
-- The tall form was that of Gabriel Oak; the small one that of George; the articles in course of transit were hurdles.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 莽卢卢16 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 The Comtesse Anastasie de Restaud was tall and gracefully made; she had one of the prettiest figures in Paris.
-- a tall man that dyes his whiskers?'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pines are not tall or luxu-riant, but they are sombre and add an air of severity to the scene.
-- The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour: -The sounding cataract 189 Haunted him like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to him An appetite; a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd from the eye.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On either side of her, the twins lounged easily in their chairs, squinting at the sunlight through tall mint-garnishedglasses as they laughed and talked, their long legs, booted to the knee and thick with saddle muscles, crossednegligently.
-- The sun was low across the new-plowed fields and the tall woods across the river were looming blackly insilhouette.
-- And after an interval a tall black boy of their own age ran breathlessly around thehouse and out toward the tethered horses.
-- In the strange half-light, the tall pines of the river swamp, so warmly green in the sunshine, were black against thepastel sky, an impenetrable row of black giants hiding the slow yellow water at their feet.
-- On the hill across the river,the tall white chimneys of the Wilkes, home faded gradually into the darkness of the thick oaks surrounding them, andonly far-off pin points of supper lamps showed that a house was here.
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