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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It showedin the thin hawk nose over the full red lips, the high forehead and the wide-set eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And any one could see that he shook with fear, and that there broke out upon his lips curious white flakes, like thin snow.
-- He had glittering eyes,--small, keen, and black,--and thin wide mottled lips.
-- Nor was there any drawback on my little turret bedroom, beyond there being such a very thin ceiling between me and the flagstaff, that when I lay down on my back in bed, it seemed as if I had to balance that pole on my forehead all night.
-- I could feel the muscles of the thin arm round my neck swell with the vehemence that possessed her.
-- But I can compare the effect of it, when on, to nothing but the probable effect of rouge upon the dead; so awful was the manner in which everything in him that it was most desirable to repress, started through that thin layer of pretence, and seemed to come blazing out at the crown of his head.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chanticleer observ-ing that they were but thin fellows, and not likely to take up much room, told them they might ride, but made them promise not to dirty the wheels of the carriage in getting in, nor to tread on Partlet's toes.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his right waistcoat-pocket we found a prodigious bundle of white thin substances, folded one over another, about the bigness of three men, tied with a strong cable, and marked 32 Gulliver's Travelswith black figures; which we humbly conceive to be writings, every letter almost half as large as the palm of our hands.
-- The proposition, and demonstration, were fairly written on 232 Gulliver's Travelsa thin wafer, with ink composed of a cephalic tincture.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I donno t'night,' said he, lifting off his hat, and smoothing his thin hair with the flat of his hand.
-- Louisa, holding her hand, could feel no pulse; but kissing it, could see a slight thin thread of life in fluttering motion.
-- For, there was Bitzer, out of breath, his thin lips parted, his thin nostrils distended, his white eyelashes quivering, his colourless face more colourless than ever, as if he ran himself into a white heat, when other people ran themselves into a glow.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Large spectacles hid, to a certain extent, his vast, round, and goggle eyes, while his nose was irreverently compared to a thin file.
-- This mighty turf pit, measured from the bottom of certain ravines, is often not less than seventy feet deep, and presents to the eye the view of successive layers of black burned-up rocky detritus, separated by thin streaks of porous sandstone.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Chatterley came sometimes, with her aristocratic thin face, and triumphed, finding nothing altered.
-- 'The whole point about the sexual problem,' said Ham-mond, who was a tall thin fellow with a wife and two children, but much more closely connected with a typewrit-er, 'is that there is no point to it.
-- And suddenly, on the left, came a clearing where there was nothing but a ravel of dead brack-en, a thin and spindly sapling leaning here and there, big sawn stumps, showing their tops and their grasping roots, lifeless.
-- He had to hear it praised: that affected him with the last thin thrill of passion beyond any sexual orgasm.
-- They just went off from the top of their heads as if they were squibs, and expected you to be carried heavenwards along with their own thin sticks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the rest, he was large and tall in frame, had thin lips, where his thick moustache showed them at all, and a quantity of dry hair, of no definable colour, in its shaggy state, but shot with red.
-- Here for the first time she could not restrain her tears from falling; and the little thin hands he had watched when they were so busy, trembled as they clasped each other.
-- But what was really in his mind, was the weak figure with its strong purpose, the thin worn shoes, the insufficient dress, and the pretence of recreation and enjoyment.
-- Callers looking steadily into the eyes of their receivers, pretended not to smell cooking three feet off; people, confronting closets accidentally left open, pretended not to see bottles; visitors with their heads against a partition of thin canvas, and a page and a young female at high words on the other side, made believe to be sitting in a primeval silence.
-- Rickety dwellings of undoubted fashion, but of a capacity to hold nothing comfortably except a dismal smell, looked like the last result of the great mansions' breeding in-and-in; and, where their little supplementary bows and balconies were supported on thin iron columns, seemed to be scrofulously resting upon crutches.
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