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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The blinding loveliness of it was almost intolerable, this pale thin face with its flaming eyes; it was a strange beauty.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even as fierce ravening wolves that are feasting upon a homed stag which they have killed upon the mountains, and their jaws are red with blood they go in a pack to lap water from the clear spring with their long thin tongues; and they reek of blood and slaughter; they know not what fear is, for it is hunger drives them even so did the leaders and counsel-lors of the Myrmidons gather round the good squire of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, and among them stood Achilles himself cheering on both men and horses.
-- On this the mighty monster hobbled off from his anvil, his thin legs plying lustily under him.
-- Juno, Pal-las Minerva, earth-encircling Neptune, Mercury bringer of good luck and excellent in all cunning all these joined the host that came from the ships; with them also came Vulcan in all his glory, limping, but yet with his thin legs plying lustily under him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hall," said he, "but this is terrible weather for thin boots!"
-- And inside, in the artificial darkness of the parlour, into which only one thin jet of sunlight penetrated, the stranger, hungry we must suppose, and fearful, hidden in his uncomfortable hot wrappings, pored through his dark glasses upon his paper or chinked his dirty little bottles, and occasionally swore savagely at the boys, audible if invisible, outside the windows.
-- You'll be telling me next you're just thin air.
-- A box of very thin common glass would be hard to see in a bad light, because it would absorb hardly any light and refract and reflect very little.
-- It was a bright day in January and I was stark naked and the thin slime of mud that covered the road was freezing.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time my eye caught my hand, thin so that it looked like a dirty skin-purse full of loose bones, and all the business of the boat came back to me.
-- From one point a thin white thread of vapour rose slantingly to an immense height, and then frayed out like a down feather.
-- He had a large, almost lipless, mouth, extraordinary lank arms, long thin feet, and bow-legs, and stood with his heavy face thrust forward staring at us.
-- The wild scene about me lay sleep-ing silently under the sun, and the only sound near me was the thin hum of some small gnats that had discovered me.
-- I was astonished at this thin fog in the full blaze of daylight; but I had no time to stand wondering then.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had hardly spoken when a shower of nuts and twigs spattered down through the branches; and they could hear coughings and howlings and angry jumpings high up in the air among the thin branches.
-- Bagheera climbed as he had never climbed be-fore, but the thin branches broke beneath his weight, and he slipped down, his claws full of bark.
-- Then you can imagine the times that he had with his companions, ducking under the rollers; or coming in on top of a comber and landing with a swash and a splutter as the big wave went whirling far up the beach; or standing up on his tail and scratching his head as the old people did; or playing 'I'm the King of the Castle' on slippery, weedy rocks that just stuck out of the wash. Now and then he would see a thin fin, like a big shark's fin, drifting along close to shore, and he knew that that was the Killer Whale, the Grampus, who eats young seals when he can get them; and Kotick would head for the beach like an arrow, and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A sky-blue coat, with short and broad skirts and low cape, exposed a long, thin neck, and longer and thinner legs, to the worst animadver-sions of the evil-disposed.
-- Looking upward, he found that the thin fleecy clouds, which evening had painted on the blue sky, were already losing their faintest tints of rose-color, while the imbedded stream, which glided past the spot where he stood, was to be traced only by the dark boundary of its wooded banks.
-- The quick eyes of the Mohicans caught the dark line of his lower limbs incautiously exposed through the thin foliage, a few inches from the trunk of the tree.
-- The mountains looked green, and fresh, and love-ly, tempered with the milder light, or softened in shadow, as thin vapors floated between them and the sun.
-- You see the mist, major, that is rising above the island; you can't call it a fog, for it is more like a streak of thin cloud ' 'It is vapor from the water.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her face, thin and not much lined, was of the sort that ages gracefully, so that you thought in youth she must have been a much handsomer woman than in fact she was.
-- Mr. Van Busche Taylor was a very thin man with a large, bald head, bony and shining; and under the great dome of his skull his face, yellow, with deep lines in it, looked very small.
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