thin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 薄的， 细的； 稀薄的， 淡的； 瘦的v. 变薄； 变稀，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The people rudely pic-tured as drinking in the wine-shops, croaked over their scanty measures of thin wine and beer, and were glower-ingly confidential together.
-- At the same time, the thin straight lines of the setting of the eyes, and the thin straight lips, 177and the markings in the nose, curved with a sarcasm that looked handsomely diabolic.
-- So, leaving only one light burning on the large hearth, he let his thin gauze curtains fall around him, and heard the night break its silence with a long sigh as he composed himself to sleep.
-- He's as thin as a lath.
-- Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best of times, but it would seem to have been an unusually thin wine that he sold at this time.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The matter of which it was built was just as soft, and formed similar towers, and domes, and pil-lars, transparent and rocking in the thin air; while above his head our earth was rolling like a large fiery ball.
-- The extensive building is separated from the street by a pretty high railing, the thick iron bars of which are so far apart, that in all seriousness, it is said, some very thin fel-low had of a night occasionally squeezed himself through to go and pay his little visits in the town.
-- 'I think there is somebody just behind us,' said Gerda; and something rushed past: it was like shadowy figures on the wall; horses with flowing manes and thin legs, hunts-men, ladies and gentlemen on horseback.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 4 Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face and large, startled eyes, which looked prominent from the thinness of her face, was standing among a litter of all sorts of things scattered all over the room, before an open bureau, from which she was taking something.
-- she said, and going back to her bedroom she sat down in the same place as she had sat when talking to her husband, clasping tightly her thin hands with the rings that slipped down on her bony fingers, and fell to going over in her memory all the conversation.
-- His mother, a dried-up old lady with black eyes and ringlets, screwed up her eyes, scanning her son, and smiled slightly with her thin lips.
-- Anna lifted the wasted, thin hand of Dolly, kissed it and said: "But, Dolly, what's to be done, what's to be done?
-- For a moment she regained her self-possession, and realized that the thin peasant who had come in wearing a long overcoat, with buttons missing from it, was the stoveheater, that he was looking at the thermometer, that it was the wind and snow bursting in after him at the door; but then everything grew blurred again.... That peasant with the long waist seemed to be gnawing something on the wall, the old lady began stretching her legs the whole length of the carriage, and filling it with a black cloud; then there was a fearful shrieking and banging, as though someone were being torn to pieces; then there was a blinding dazzle of red fire before her eyes and a wall seemed to rise up and hide everything.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the ground was covered with a thin powdering of snow.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The calculations were delicate, minute, exquisitely clear; and delicate were the scientist's thin hands among the papers.
-- They saw Fatty stop, remove his handkerchief, mournfully blow his nose--and discover a long thin slip of paper.
-- (But one cannot convey the quality of it: the thin drawl, the sardonic amiability, the hiss of the S's, the D's turned into blunt and challenging T's.)
-- He was studying trypanosomes from a rat--an eight-branched rosette stained with polychrome methylene blue; a cluster of organisms delicate as a narcissus, with their purple nuclei, their light blue cells, and the thin lines of the flagella.
-- He was an eminent scientist, and it was outrageous that he should have to endure impudence from a probationer--a singularly vulgar probationer, a thin and slangy young woman apparently from the West.
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：
-- Round her thin long neck, which looked like a hen's leg, was knot-ted some sort of flannel rag, and, in spite of the heat, there hung flapping on her shoulders, a mangy fur cape, yellow with age.
-- And much she gets to eat and drink when there is not a crust for the little ones for three days!I was lying at the time 芒聙娄 well, what of it!I was lying drunk and I heard my Sonia speaking (she is a gentle creature with a soft little voice 芒聙娄 fair hair and such a pale, thin little face).
-- Beside him stood a girl of nine years old, tall and thin, wearing a thin and ragged chemise with an ancient cashmere pelisse flung over her bare shoulders, long outgrown and barely reach-ing her knees.
-- Her arm, as thin as a stick, was round her brother's neck.
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