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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was tall in person, and had rather stern features; but there was an exceeding sweetness in his look, and a stamp of Highland poetry about his whole bearing.
-- "Cavendish assures us that they are tall and robust," continued Paganel.
-- He chose a clump of tall carob trees, under which they arranged their few belongings—few indeed, for all they had were sundry wraps and fire-arms, and a little dried meat and rice.
-- Of course it was the Major who suggested looking for him, and he was not far off, for about fifty paces from the RIO a man of very tall stature was seen standing motionless on the lowest crags at the foot of the mountain.
-- They were fine specimens of the native races, which had been almost entirely swept away in 1833 by General Rosas, tall in stature, with arched forehead and olive complexion.
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：
-- A tall man had stepped from the shadow of the porch to open the door of the wagonette.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes I went and climbed the mountain and stood there in the midst of the tall pines, all alone in the terrible silence, with our little village in the distance, and the sky so blue, and the sun so bright, and an old ruined castle on the mountain-side, far away.
-- This next arrival was a tall red-faced man of about fifty-five, with greyish hair and whiskers, and large eyes which stood out of their sockets.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Middleton was not more than six or seven and twenty; her face was handsome, her figure tall and striking, and her address graceful.
-- The person is not tall enough for him, and has not his air."
-- Lucy, who was hardly less anxious to please one parent than the other, thought the boys were both remarkably tall for their age, and could not conceive that there could be the smallest difference in the world between them; and Miss Steele, with yet greater address gave it, as fast as she could, in favour of each.
-- It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It scudded the fleecy clouds in the heavens, trailed long, thin streamers of smoke from the tall stacks, and raced about the streets and corners in sharp and sudden puffs.
-- The arc lights were sputtering overhead, and high up were the lighted windows of the tall office buildings.
-- She could see the tall runway and the heap of earth and coal cast out.
-- asked Carrie, who did not take the tall five-story walls on either hand to be the abodes of families.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are as tall as a tree and as big around as a church.'
-- She had five big wigwams aboard, wide apart, and an open camp fire in the mid- dle, and a tall flag-pole at each end.
-- Col. Grangerford was very tall and very slim, and had a darkish-paly complexion, not a sign of red in it anywheres; he was clean shaved every morning all over his thin face, and he had the thinnest kind of lips, and the thinnest kind of nostrils, and a high nose, and heavy eyebrows, and the blackest kind of eyes, sunk so deep back that they seemed like they was looking out of caverns at you, as you may say.
-- Then there was Miss Charlotte; she was twenty- five, and tall and proud and grand, but as good as she could be when she warn't stirred up; but when she was she had a look that would make you wilt in your tracks, like her father.
-- And then one by one they got up and stood, and went a-weaving around the ring so gentle and wavy and grace-ful, the men looking ever so tall and airy and straight, with their heads bobbing and skimming along, away up there under the tent-roof, and every lady's rose-leafy dress flap-ping soft and silky around her hips, and she looking like the most loveliest parasol.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he reached it, he looked into the valley far below him and there he saw the wood where unluckily he had met the Fox and the Cat, and the tall oak tree where he had been hanged; but though he searched far and near, he could not see the house where the Fairy with the Azure Hair lived.
-- He looked up and saw two tall Carabineers near him.
-- The bright face of a tall boy looked at him with wide- awake blue eyes, dark brown hair and happy, smiling lips.
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