Tall

(noun.) a garment size for a tall person.

(adj.) great in vertical dimension; high in stature; 'tall people'; 'tall buildings'; 'tall trees'; 'tall ships' .

(adj.) impressively difficult; 'a tall order' .

埃弗雷特编辑

• The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre, and add an air of severity to the scene. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• This tall man, Tom, is a rascally adventurer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A tall man--a confoundedly tall man--with black whiskers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A tall, stout official had come down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged jacket. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He was a heavy man about five feet ten inches tall and his hands and feet were large. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The sun was low, and tall trees sent their shadows across the grassy walks where Mary was moving without bonnet or parasol. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He is slender, not tall, wiry, and looks as if he could endure any amount of physical exercise. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The tall English driver came around and looked in, I'll take it very easily, he said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• She had put on a dress of stiff old greenish brocade, that fitted tight and made her look tall and rather terrible, ghastly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I judged him to be about my own age, but he was much taller, and he had a way of spinning himself about that was full of appearance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• This it is, her not caring about you, which gives her such a soft skin, and makes her so much taller, and produces all these charms and graces! 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• She is now about Miss Elizabeth Bennet's height, or rather taller. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• You are not striving to look taller than any body else. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I always had an idea that you were at least seven feet high, and was quite astonished at your return from India to find you no taller than myself. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He was taller than I and his face was very thin under the shadow of his cap-visor and the scar was new and shiny. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Thus, Bentley Drummle had come to Mr. Pocket when he was a head taller than that gentleman, and half a dozen heads thicker than most gentlemen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He is taller than the Indian, not so tall as Gilchrist. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She is grown up; she will be no taller. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang, {301} and the tallest trees, as I could judge, appeared to be seven feet high. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Why, he sees those chimneys--the tallest ones! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Make jist the tallest kind o' broth and knicknacks. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The preventative did not work well in the cases of our tallest pilgrims, however. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In a volume like this, room exists for mention only of those inventions which burn as beacon lights on the tallest hills--and so we must now pass on to others. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The tallest of the two--a stout muscular man in the dress of a gamekeeper--was a stranger to me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Yes; they had all given their nosegays, from the eldest to the youngest, from the tallest to the most diminutive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The parties stood thus: The two mothers, though each really convinced that her own son was the tallest, politely decided in favour of the other. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.

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