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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All quiet, curtains down at the lower win-dows, servants out of sight, and nothing human visible but a curly black head leaning on a thin hand at the upper win-dow.
-- When the evening for the small party came, she found that the poplin wouldn't do at all, for the other girls were putting on thin dresses and making themselves very fine indeed.
-- Thank you, Mother,' And Jo gave the thin cheek a grateful kiss, more precious to Mrs. March than if it had given back the rosy roundness of her youth.
-- Give my dearest love to Father, and believe me, ever your own... MEG This note, prettily written on scented paper, was a great contrast to the next, which was scribbled on a big sheet of thin foreign paper, ornamented with blots and all manner of flourishes and curly-tailed letters.
-- To Beth (if she lives after me) I give my dolls and thelittle bureau, my fan, my linen collars and my new slippers if she can wear them being thin when she gets well.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your most usual point of perch is the head of the t' gallant-mast, where you stand upon two thin parallel sticks (almost peculiar to whalemen) called the t' gallant cross-trees.
-- To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish white water, and thin scattered puffs of vapor hovering over it, and suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from white rolling billows.
-- Beneath this atmospheric waving and curling, and partially beneath a thin layer of water, also, the whales were swimming.
-- Though in life it remains perfectly fluid, yet, upon exposure to the air, after death, it soon begins to concrete; sending forth beautiful crystalline shoots, as when the first thin delicate ice is just forming in water.
-- A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
-- With this view, they contracted with the water-works to lay on an unlimited supply of water; and with a corn-factor to supply periodically small quantities of oatmeal; and issued three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll of Sundays.
-- But the number of workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers; and the board were in ecstasies.
-- The man's face was thin and very pale; his hair and beard were grizzly; his eyes were bloodshot.
-- said Oliver, as the boy ran to the gate, and thrust his thin arm between the rails to greet him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.'
-- Who would have thought that she could be so thin and small?'
-- When, after examining the mother, in whose counte-nance and deportment she soon found some resemblance of Mr. Darcy, she turned her eyes on the daughter, she could almost have joined in Maria's astonishment at her being so thin and so small.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For example, if I wanted a board, I had no other way but to cut down a tree, set it on an edge before me, and hew it flat on either side with my axe, till I brought it to be thin as a plank, and then dub it smooth with my adze.
-- This was a most difficult thing even to think on, for to be sure I had nothing like the necessary thing to make it - I mean fine thin canvas or stuff to searce the meal through.
-- His face was round and plump; his nose small, not flat, like the negroes; a very good mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well set, and as white as ivory.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The floors were covered with matting and the hall laid with a thin rag carpet.
-- It scudded the fleecy clouds in the heavens, trailed long, thin streamers of smoke from the tall stacks, and raced about the streets and corners in sharp and sudden puffs.
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