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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were Ando-Peruvians, of an olive tint, of medium stature and massive form, with a low forehead, almost circular face, thin lips, high cheekbones, effeminate features, and cold expression.
-- The ostrich and the peccary were prepared for cooking by divesting them of their tough skins, and cutting them up into thin slices.
-- Here and there thermal springs and chalybeate waters escaped from the black lava, and thin dark vapors rose above the volcanic soil.
-- The latter was a tall, thin man, im-perturbably cool, and, whatever he may have felt, allowed no trace of it to appear on his features.
-- A grassy carpet at the foot of the trees, and a canopy of verdure above, long perspectives of bold colors, little shade, little freshness at all, a peculiar light, as if the rays came through a thin veil, dappled lights and shades sharply reflected on the ground, made up a whole, and constituted a peculiar spectacle rich in novel effects.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So your grave, middle-aged family prac-titioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.'
-- He was a very tall, thin man, with a long nose like a beak, which jutted out between two keen, gray eyes, set closely together and spar-kling brightly from behind a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
-- Then we gazed round us at the high, thin window of old stained glass, the oak panelling, the stags' heads, the coats-of-arms upon the walls, all dim and sombre in the subdued light of the central lamp.
-- There is a dry glitter in his eyes, and a firm set of his thin lips, which goes with a positive and possibly a harsh nature.
-- Now and again the moon peeped out for an instant, but clouds were driving over the face of the sky, and just as we came out on the moor a thin rain began to fall.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical it might almost be called a malicious smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face.
-- There was a waterfall near us, such a lovely thin streak of water, like a thread but white and moving.
-- Marie was her daugh-ter, a girl of twenty, weak and thin and consumptive; but still she did heavy work at the houses around, day by day.
-- Her face was as thin as a skeleton's, and sweat used to stand on her white brow in large drops.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A long, thin cloud of pink hung in midair, shaped like some island in a far-off sea.
-- Carrie saw no more of Mrs. Vance for several weeks, but she heard her play through the thin walls which divided the front rooms of the flats, and was pleased by the merry selection of pieces and the brilliance of their rendition.
-- One or two were very thin and lean.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Col. Grangerford was very tall and very slim, and had a darkish-paly complexion, not a sign of red in it anywheres; he was clean shaved every morning all over his thin face, and he had the thinnest kind of lips, and the thinnest kind of nostrils, and a high nose, and heavy eyebrows, and the blackest kind of eyes, sunk so deep back that they seemed like they was looking out of caverns at you, as you may say.
-- The hare-lip she got to pumping me about England, and blest if I didn't think the ice was getting mighty thin sometimes.
-- I reckon he thought he'd keep the thing up till he tired them people out, so they'd thin out, and him and the duke could break loose and get away.
-- It was kinder thin ice, but I says: 'The captain see me standing around, and told me I better have something to eat before I went ashore; so he took me in the texas to the officers' lunch, and give me all I wanted.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as he was about to give it to his friend, with a violent jerk it slipped out of his hands and hit against poor Geppetto's thin legs.
-- At the call, two wooden officers appeared, long and thin as a yard of rope, with queer hats on their heads and swords in their hands.
-- The boy's real name was Romeo, but everyone called him Lamp-Wick, for he was long and thin and had a woebegone look about him.
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