protracted是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 延长了的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of the former they had many, of the latter few none perhaps beyond that indefinable uneasiness which is inseparable from suddenly awakened hope, and protracted expectation.
-- The younger brother, uneasy at his protracted absence, was watching at the door for his coming, when he appeared in the pathway with his little guide.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was Mr. Cruncher's conclusion after a protracted but vain endeav-our to find a better one.
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：
-- The battle was now entirely terminated with the excep-tion of the protracted struggle between 'Le Renard Subtil' and 'Le Gros Serpent.'
-- 'I should be sorry to have the defense protracted in such a manner as to irritate my red friends there,' continued Mont-calm, glancing his eyes at the group of grave and attentive Indians, without attending to the other's questions; 'I find it difficult, even now, to limit them to the usages of war.'
-- The artifice of neither, however, succeed-ed; and after a protracted and fruitless interview, Duncan took his leave, favorably impressed with an opinion of the courtesy and talents of the enemy's captain, but as ignorant of what he came to learn as when he arrived.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Iam too well aware that when, in the inscrutable decrees of Fate,you were reserved for me, it is possible you may have beenreserved for one, destined, after a protracted struggle, at length tofall a victim to pecuniary involvements of a complicated nature.
-- Stimulated by the silent monitor within, and by a no less touchingand appealing monitor without- to whom I will briefly refer asMiss W.- I entered on a not unlaborious task of clandestineinvestigation, protracted now, to the best of my knowledge,information, and belief, over a period exceeding twelve calendarmonths."'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Knightley, who had nothing of ceremony about him, was offering by his short, decided answers, an amusing contrast to the protracted apologies and civil hesitations of the oth-er.
-- It could be protracted no longer.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I had arrived at this point and had become as well acquainted with the theory and practice of natural philosophy as depended on the lessons of any of the professors at Ingolstadt, my residence there being no longer conducive to my improvements, I thought of returning to my friends and my native town, when an incident happened that protracted my stay.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor would they go through the formal and protracted courtshipswhich good manners had prescribed before the war.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He cunningly conjectured they were staying away in order to avoid hearing his protracted blessing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true that the debates of both Houses of Parliament the whole session through, uniformly tended to the protracted deliberation, How not to do it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only that, but the subtle insanity of Ahab respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly manifested than in his superlative sense and shrewdness in foreseeing that, for the present, the hunt should in some way be stripped of that strange imaginative impiousness which naturally invested it; that the full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure background (for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action); that when they stood their long night watches, his officers and men must have some nearer things to think of than Moby Dick.
-- Nor does it unfrequently occur, that Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them, for a protracted three or four years' voyage in some other ship than their own; so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That night she was visited by Mrs. Hale, whose chatter and protracted stay made it impossible to dwell upon her predicament or the fortune of the day.
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