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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a word, not a hint!Suddenly, and without the very slightest suspi-cion of warning, 'light blue' seizes my cigar from between my fingers, and, wheugh!out of the window with it!Well, on flew the train, and I sat bewildered, and the young wom-an, tall and fair, and rather red in the face, too red, glared at me with flashing eyes.
-- They included a couple of young merchants, a man in a great-coat, a medical student, a little Pole, a small fat man who laughed continuously, and an enormously tall stout one who apparently put great faith in the strength of his fists.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore he was named Simoeisius, but he did not live to pay his parents for his rearing, for he was cut off untimely by the spear of mighty Ajax, who struck him in the breast by the right nipple as he was coming on among the fore-most fighters; the spear went right through his shoulder, and he fell as a poplar that has grown straight and tall in a meadow by some mere, and its top is thick with branches.
-- He fell like some oak or silver poplar or tall pine to which woodmen have laid their axes upon the mountains to make timber for ship-building even so did he lie stretched at full length in front of his chariot and horses, moaning and clutching at the blood-stained dust.
-- Mean-Twhile the fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached Achilles, and found him sitting by his tall ships and boding that which was indeed too surely true.
-- Up hill and down dale did they go, by straight ways and crooked, and when they reached the heights of many-fountained Ida, they laid their axes to the roots of many a tall branching oak that came thundering down as they felled it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Kemp was a tall and slender young man, with flaxen hair and a moustache almost white, and the work he was upon would earn him, he hoped, the fellowship of the Royal Society, so highly did he think of it.
-- I was alone; the laboratory was still, with the tall lights burning brightly and silently.
-- "We crawled past Mudie's, and there a tall woman with five or six yellow-labelled books hailed my cab, and I sprang out just in time to escape her, shaving a railway van narrowly in my flight.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I pushed through a tan-gle of tall white-flowered bushes, and saw him twenty paces beyond, looking over his shoulder at me and hesitating.
-- I ran over the white space and down a steep slope, through a scattered growth of trees, and came to a low-lying stretch of tall reeds, through which I pushed into a dark, thick undergrowth that black and succulent un-der foot.
-- Presently the ground gave rich and oozy under my feet; but I was desperate and went headlong into it, struggled through kneedeep, and so came to a winding path among tall canes.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tall are the camels, heavy are the kine, But this was Least of Little Things, O little son of mine!
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- According to the orders of the preceding night, the heavy sleep of the army was broken by the rolling of the warning drums, whose rattling echoes were heard issuing, on the damp morning air, out of every vista of the woods, just as day began to draw the shaggy outlines of some tall pines of the vicinity, on the opening brightness of a soft and cloud-less eastern sky.
-- At each change in the evolutions of the latter, the former raised his tall person in the stirrups; producing, in this manner, by the undue elon-gation of his legs, such sudden growths and diminishings of the stature, as baffled every conjecture that might be made as to his dimensions.
-- As these, again, were surmounted by tall trees, which appeared to totter on the brows of the precipice, it gave the stream the appearance of running through a deep and narrow dell.
-- As the last foot touched the rock, the canoe whirled from its station, when the tall form of the scout was seen, for an in-stant, gliding above the waters, before it disappeared in the impenetrable darkness that rested on the bed of the river.
-- David raised his tall person in the midst of the infernal din, with a hand on either ear, exclaiming: 'Whence comes this discord!Has hell broke loose, that man should utter sounds like these!'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squir-rel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley.
-- The scholars were hurried through their lessons without stopping at trifles; those who were nimble skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy had a smart application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed or help them over a tall word.
-- Far below him the Tappan Zee spread its dusky and indistinct waste of waters, with here and there the tall mast of a sloop, riding quietly at anchor under the land.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a woman of thirty-seven, rather tall and plump, without being fat; she was not pretty, but her face was pleasing, chiefly, perhaps, on account of her kind brown eyes.
-- Tall and extremely stout, she would have been of imposing presence if the great good-nature of her face had not made it impossible for her to express anything but kindliness.
-- He was nearly as tall as Captain Johnson, and he looked strong enough.
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