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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now, strange to say, in the shafts of such a cart he saw a thin little sorrel beast, one of those peasants' nags which he had often seen straining their utmost under a heavy load of wood or hay, especially when the wheels were stuck in the mud or in a rut.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hewas bald on the top of his head, and had some thin wet-lookinghair that was just turning grey, brushed across each temple, so thatthe two sides interlaced on his forehead.
-- I thought Mrs. and MissCreakle (at whom I now glanced for the first time, and who were,both, thin and quiet) were not disappointed.
-- Her face was very pretty still, but itlooked careworn, and too delicate; and her hand was so thin andwhite that it seemed to me to be almost transparent.
-- Arrived at his house in Windsor Terrace (which I noticed wasshabby like himself, but also, like himself, made all the show itcould), he presented me to Mrs. Micawber, a thin and faded lady,not at all young, who was sitting in the parlour (the first floor wasaltogether unfurnished, and the blinds were kept down to deludethe neighbours), with a baby at her breast.
-- My stool was such a tower ofobservation, that as I watched him reading on again, after thisrapturous exclamation, and following up the lines with hisforefinger, I observed that his nostrils, which were thin andpointed, with sharp dints in them, had a singular and mostuncomfortable way of expanding and contracting themselves; that 223they seemed to twinkle instead of his eyes, which hardly evertwinkled at all.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say: 'Mrs.
-- It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her com-84 Emmaprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed pa-per, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thin grasses, more or less coating the hill, were touched by the wind in breezes of differing powers, and almost of differing natures one rubbing the blades heavily, another raking them piercingly, another brushing them like a soft broom.
-- The farmer had never turned his head once, but with eyes fixed on the most advanced point along the road, passed as unconsciously and abstractedly as if Bathsheba and her charms were thin air.
-- THE GREAT BARN AND THE SHEEP-SHEARERSMen thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.
-- At this time of departure, when nothing more was visible of the inside of the parlour than a thin and still chink of light between the shutters, a passionate scene was in course of enactment there.
-- He touched the palm of his hand with the blade, and then, lifting it, showed her a thin shaving of scarf-skin dangling therefrom.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her voice was like the shrill, thin note of the grasshopper sounding from the thicket when winter is at hand.
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
-- He opened his door noiselessly, went out upon the landing, and saw a thin streak of light under Father Goriot's door.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This manuscript will doubtless afford you the greatest pleasure; but to me, who know him and who hear it from his own lips with what interest and sympathy shall I read it in some future day!Even now, as I commence my task, his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness; I see his thin hand raised in animation, while the lineaments of his face are irradiated by the soul within.
-- The four others were dark-eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin and very fair.
-- It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely re-duced to thin ribbons of wood.
-- But, my dear Franken-stein,' continued he, stopping short and gazing full in my face, 'I did not before remark how very ill you appear; so thin and pale; you look as if you had been watching for sev-eral nights.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett recalled withcontempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.
-- He was followed closely by Jack, a black little boy often, hastily buttoning a white linen jacket with one hand and bearing in the other a fly-swisher, made of thin strips ofnewspaper tied to a reed longer than he was.
-- Thin as a rail and delicate enough for the wind to blow away and no spiritat all.
-- Frank Kennedy might own more land than anyone in the County and he might have a very kind heart,but these things counted for nothing against the fact that he was forty, slight and nervous and had a thin ginger-coloredbeard and an old-maidish, fussy way about him.
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