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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ned Land was about forty years of age; he was a tall man (more than six feet high), strongly built, grave and taciturn, occasionally violent, and very passionate when contradicted.
-- I saw their tall peaks for an instant.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The face of the tall straight woman turned slowly and as if drugged to this new speaker.
-- She was tall and strange, she looked as if she had come out of some new, bizarre picture.
-- Good morning good morning you'll come and see me? thank you so much next week yes good-bye, g-o-o-d b-y-e."Gudrun and Ursula stood and watched her slowly waving her head up and down, and waving her hand slowly in dismissal, smiling a strange affected smile, making a tall queer, frightening figure, with her heavy fair hair slipping to her eyes.
-- He made Gerald uncertain, because, being tall and slender and reticent, he looked like a gentleman.
-- Gerald looked at the group of men, the Russian golden and like a water-plant, Halliday tall and heavily, brokenly beautiful, Birkin very white and indefinite, not to be assigned, as he looked closely at the carven woman.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island in my fancy from every possible direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy-glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects.
-- He was very tall and strong, with a face as big as a ham plain and pale, but intelligent and smiling.
-- "Why, how many tall ships, think ye, now, have I seen laid aboard?
-- This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others some singly, some in clumps; but the general colouring was uniform and sad.
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