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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Top's collar was made of a thin piece of tempered steel.
-- On this ground he placed a layer of branches and chopped wood, on which were piled some pieces of shistose pyrites, buttressed one against the other, the whole being covered with a thin layer of pyrites, previously reduced to the size of a nut.
-- They were birds with long, thin beaks, lengthened necks, short wings, and without any appearance of a tail.
-- But by means of a long, thin piece of iron rolled up like the barrel of a gun, Pencroft succeeded in making a tube soon ready for use.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'God save you, master,' said the old cottager in a thin piping voice; 'are you travelling far?'
-- When Nell knew all about Mr Packlemerton, and could say it without faltering, Mrs Jarley passed on to the fat man, and then to the thin man, the tall man, the short man, the old lady who died of dancing at a hundred and thirty-two, the wild boy of the woods, the woman who poisoned fourteen families with pickled walnuts, and other historical characters and interesting but misguided individuals.
-- returned the gruff voice; 'for all old Luke's winning through thick and thin of late years, I remember the time when he was the unluckiest and unfortunatest of men.
-- The grate, which was a wide one, was wound and screwed up tight, so as to hold no more than a little thin sandwich of fire.
-- 'Why, how thin you are!What do you mean by it?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff came down from the perron, and stepping over pools and the thin ice-covering formed on the snow, walked toward the window of the servants' quarters.
-- Now something snuffled, then it crackled, and again the thin layer of ice resounded like a mass of crushed glass.
-- While Nekhludoff was approaching the house a carriage was standing near the curb, opposite the door, and a lackey in a cockaded silk hat and cape, was seating a lady, who, raising the long train of her skirt, displayed the sharp joints of her toes through the thin slippers.
-- The grave face of the child, however, spread into a broad smile, and its thin legs began to wriggle.
-- The President, Nikitin, with a closely shaved, narrow face and steel-gray eyes; Wolf, with thin lips and small white hands, with which he was turning over the papers before him; then Skovorodnikoff, stout, massive and pock-marked, and a very learned jurist, and finally, B脙漏, the same partriarchal old man, who was the last to arrive.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mouths were small, with bright red, rather thin lips, and the little chins ran to a point.
-- Then, as my vigil wore on, came a faintness in the eastward sky, like the reflection of some colourless fire, and the old moon rose, thin and peaked and white.
-- The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurts one's lungs: all contributed to an appalling effect.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.'
-- And a "borogove" is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round something like a live mop.'
-- The Red Queen said, 'That's a poor thin way of doing things.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fog was rapidly dispersing; already the moon shone quite clear on the high ground on either side; and it was only in the exact bottom of the dell and round the tavern door that a thin veil still hung unbroken to conceal the first steps of our escape.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a filament, not a ribbon, however thin they might be, but kept as straight as a rod of iron.
-- In about an hour Captain Nemo gave the signal to halt; I, for my part, was not sorry, and we stretched ourselves under an arbour of alariae, the long thin blades of which stood up like arrows.
-- On the shell it is fast; in the flesh it is loose; but always has for a kernel a small hard substance, may be a barren egg, may be a grain of sand, around which the pearly matter deposits itself year after year successively, and by thin concentric layers."
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