length是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 长， 长度； 一段， 一节， 程度， 范围，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that extremity first.
-- At length the hour of shutting up the counting- house arrived.
-- 'Or would you know,' pursued the Ghost, 'the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself?
-- At length it broke upon his listening ear.
-- At length the long-expected knock was heard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I was say-ing ' Her look so discomposed him that he stopped, wan-dered, and began anew: 'As I was saying; if Monsieur Manette had not died; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared; if he had been spirited away; if it had not been difficult to guess to what 32 A tale of two citiesdreadful place, though no art could trace him; if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time; if his wife had implored the king, the queen, the court, the clergy, for any tidings of him, and all quite in vain; then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.'
-- At length the jackal had got together a compact repast for the lion, and proceeded to offer it to him.
-- shrieked the man, in wild desperation, extend-ing both arms at their length above his head, and staring at him.
-- 'I have had the happiness, Doctor Manette, of being so intimate here,' so he at length began, 'for some year and a half, that I hope the topic on which I am about to touch may not ' He was stayed by the Doctor's putting out his hand to stop him.
-- They had al-ready got the length of opening the hearse to take the coffin out, when some brighter genius proposed instead, its being escorted to its destination amidst general rejoicing.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the snow began to fall so thickly that the little boy could not see an arm's length before him, but still on he went: when suddenly he let go the string he held in his hand in order to get loose from the sledge, but it was of no use; still the little vehicle rushed on with the quickness of the wind.
-- At length the carriage stopped.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a moment she regained her self-possession, and realized that the thin peasant who had come in wearing a long overcoat, with buttons missing from it, was the stoveheater, that he was looking at the thermometer, that it was the wind and snow bursting in after him at the door; but then everything grew blurred again.... That peasant with the long waist seemed to be gnawing something on the wall, the old lady began stretching her legs the whole length of the carriage, and filling it with a black cloud; then there was a fearful shrieking and banging, as though someone were being torn to pieces; then there was a blinding dazzle of red fire before her eyes and a wall seemed to rise up and hide everything.
-- The Tsar and the whole court and crowds of people were all gazing at them--at him, and Mahotin a length ahead of him, as they drew near the "devil," as the solid barrier was called.
-- Varenka, in her dark dress, in a black hat with a turndown brim, was walking up and down the whole length of the arcade with a blind Frenchwoman, and, every time she met Kitty, they exchanged friendly glances.
-- They were disputing about the misappropriation of certain sums and the laying of certain pipes, and Sergey Ivanovitch was very cutting to two members, and said something at great length with an air of triumph; and another member, scribbling something on a bit of paper, began timidly at first, but afterwards answered him very viciously and delightfully.
-- "But three steps will add to the length too...where is it to come out?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG DESCENDS THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEYOF THE GANGES WITHOUT EVER THINKING OF SEEING ITThe rash exploit had been accomplished; and for an hour Passepartout laughed gaily at his success.
-- John Bunsby, master, at length gave the order to start, and the Tankadere, taking the wind under her brigantine, foresail, and standing-jib, bounded briskly forward over the waves.
-- Mr. Fogg and his partners had resumed their game; no one not even the dummy complained of the length of the trip.
-- The reports continued in front and the whole length of the train.
-- He seemed about to give up all hope, when he espied, anchored at the Battery, a cable's length off at most, a trading vessel, with a screw, well-shaped, whose funnel, puffing a cloud of smoke, indicated that she was getting ready for departure.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Razumihin began to unfold his project, and he explained at length that almost all our publishers and book-sellers know nothing at all of what they are selling, and for that reason they are usually bad publishers, and that any decent publications pay as a rule and give a profit, some-times a considerable one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The length of those five days I can convey no idea of to any one.
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