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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen hadstressed this at great length after catching Frank's lieutenant swinging Scarlett in the garden swing and making hersqueal with laughter.
-- Every candle and candlestick in Atlanta must be in this hall tonight, she thought,silver ones with a dozen sprangling arms, china ones with charming figurines clustering their bases, old brass stands,erect and dignified, laden with candles of all sizes and colors, smelling fragrantly of bayberries, standing on the gunracks that ran the length of the hall, on the long flower-decked tables, on booth counters, even on the sills of the openwindows where, the draughts of warm summer air were just strong enough to make them flare.
-- For an hour she had watched Rhett hold the yarn Melanie was winding for knitting, had noted the blankinscrutable expression when Melanie talked at length and with pride of Ashley and his promotion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Havisham and I had never stopped all this time, but kept going round and round the room; now brushing against the skirts of the visitors, now giving them the whole length of the dismal chamber.
-- At length he prolonged his remark into "Pip, I do assure you this is as-TON-ishing!"
-- This, however, was a mere question of length and wearisomeness.
-- At length it had come into my head that the sign looked like a hammer, and on my lustily calling that word in my sister's ear, she had begun to hammer on the table and had expressed a qualified assent.
-- She manifested the greatest anxiety to be on good terms with him, was evidently much pleased by his being at length produced, and motioned that she would have him given something to drink.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 65CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP certain cat had made the acquaintance of a mouse, A and had said so much to her about the great love and friendship she felt for her, that at length the mouse agreed that they should live and keep house together.
-- At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire.
-- Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapun-zel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness.
-- He inspect-ed each one, lifted it up, put his nose to it, and at length said: 'The jam seems to me to be good, so weigh me out four ounces, dear woman, and if it is a quarter of a pound that is of no consequence.'
-- The good little duck did so, and when they were once safely across and had walked for a short time, the forest seemed to be more and more famil-iar to them, and at length they saw from afar their father's house.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 5th of November, which was the beginning of summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within half a cable's length of the ship; but the wind was so strong, that we were driven directly upon it, and im-mediately split.
-- The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but, being fixed within four inches 23of the gate, allowed me to creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple.
-- The best- ex pedient I could think of, was to creep into my house, which I accordingly did; and shutting the gate after me, I went as far as the length of my chain would suffer, and discharged 25my body of that uneasy load.
-- When he alighted, he surveyed me round with great admi-ration; but kept beyond the length of my chain.
-- In the large pocket, on the right side of his middle cover' (so I translate the word ranfulo, by which they meant my breeches,) 'we saw a hol-low pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger than the pillar; and upon one side of the pillar, were huge pieces of iron sticking out, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make of.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, he had not gone the length of three streets, when he saw another of the shawled figures in advance of him, at which he looked so keenly that perhaps its mere shadow indistinctly reflected on the wet pavement if he could have seen it without the figure itself moving along from lamp to lamp, brightening and fading as it went would have been enough to tell him who was there.
-- I don't even go the length of my wages, though they're not high, ma'am.
-- Slackbridge, the orator, looked about him with a withering smile; and, holding out his right hand at arm's length (as the manner of all Slackbridges is), to still the thundering sea, waited until there was a profound silence.
-- She made a slight movement, as if she were trying to speak, but could not find voice; at length she said, 'Mr.
-- Separated from her staircase, all the week, by the length of iron road dividing Coketown from the country house, she yet maintained her cat-like observation of Louisa, through her husband, through her brother, through James Harthouse, through the outsides of letters and packets, through everything animate and inanimate that at any time went near the stairs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This economy of motion was carried to the length of avarice.
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