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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her figure behind with two loops, and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.
-- "Very tall and dark," I told him.
-- We all three went to it, behind the wire blind, and presently saw the client go by in an accidental manner, with a murderous-looking tall individual, in a short suit of white linen and a paper cap.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a beautiful evening; the last rays of the setting sun shone bright through the long stems of the trees upon the green underwood beneath, and the turtle-doves sang from the tall birches.
-- 312 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE SEVEN RAVENS here was once a man who had seven sons, and last of Tall one daughter.
-- Now it came to pass that his father said to him one day: 'Hearken to me, you fellow in the corner there, you are growing tall and strong, and you too must learn something 330 Grimms' Fairy Talesby which you can earn your bread.
-- When it grew late, six tall men came in and brought a coffin.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at ev-ery stride, as near as I could guess.
-- Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed 'how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I: and yet,' says he, 'I dare engage these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honour; they contrive little nests and bur-rows, that they call houses and cities; they make a figure in dress and equipage; they love, they fight, they dispute, they cheat, they betray!'
-- For, if the town intended to be destroyed should have in it any tall rocks, as it generally falls out in the larger cities, a situation probably chosen at first with a view to prevent 214 Gulliver's Travelssuch a catastrophe; or if it abound in high spires, or pil-lars of stone, a sudden fall might endanger the bottom or under surface of the island, which, although it consist, as I have said, of one entire adamant, two hundred yards thick, might happen to crack by too great a shock, or burst by ap-proaching too near the fires from the houses below, as the backs, both of iron and stone, will often do in our chimneys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.
-- It was an old woman, tall and shapely still, though withered by time, on whom his eyes fell when he stopped and turned.
-- The bell again; the glare of light and heat dispelled; the factories, looming heavy in the black wet night their tall chimneys rising up into the air like competing Towers of Babel.
-- When it thundered very loudly, he glanced towards Coketown, having it in his mind that some of the tall chimneys might be struck by lightning.
-- Almost as soon as the ink was dry upon their superscriptions, he had left the tall chimneys of Coketown behind, p. 179and was in a railway carriage, tearing and glaring over the dark landscape.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was particularly fond of early editions, tall copies, and unique works.
-- He was talking in Danish with a man of tall stature, and of perfectly Herculean build.
-- The good man, ceasing from his occupation, gave a kind of halloo, upon which a tall woman, almost a giantess, came out of the hut.
-- We had not gone many hundred yards, when we came upon a mighty group of other trees with discolored leaves--the common humble trees of Mother Earth, of an exorbitant and phenomenal size: lycopods a hundred feet high; flowering ferns as tall as pines; gigantic grasses!
-- Then there appeared confounded together and intermixed, the trees of such varied lands, specimens of the vegetation of every part of the globe; there was the oak near the palm tree, the Australian eucalyptus, an interesting class of the order Myrtaceae--leaning against the tall Norwegian pine, the poplar of the north, mixing its branches with those of the New Zealand kauris.
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：
-- 'The whole point about the sexual problem,' said Ham-mond, who was a tall thin fellow with a wife and two children, but much more closely connected with a typewrit-er, 'is that there is no point to it.
-- He was moderately tall and lean, and was silent.
-- Next day Connie was arranging tall yellow tulips in a glass vase.
-- Daniele was beautiful, tall and well-shapen, with a light round head of little, close, pale-blond curls, and a good-looking man's face, a little like a lion, and long-distance blue eyes.
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