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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length the sturdy little pony, spreading out his legs, in a stiff and ludicrous attitude, got from under the Professor' slegs, and left him standing, with both feet on a separate stone, like the Colossus of Rhodes .
-- We were more than an hour in crossing the fjord; but at length the passage was concluded without accident.
-- At length a time came when despite the enormous thickness and weight of the upper crust, the mechanical forces of the combustible gases below became so great, that they actually upheaved the weighty back and made for themselves huge and gigantic shafts.
-- While we still continued our journey, I alone forgot the length of the road, by giving myself up wholly to these geological considerations.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And at length he ceased to quiver any more, and lay quite still, quite still.
-- At length she saw in the distance a yellow light.
-- She told him at length she was leaving on the seven-teenth.
-- At length Connie saw the yellow light of the house, and her heart beat fast.
-- At length she drew him to a stand-still.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monsieur Rigaud arose, lighted a cigarette, put the rest of his stock into a breast-pocket, and stretched himself out at full length upon the bench.
-- She sat, turned away from the whole length of the apartment, as if she were lonely of her own haughty choice.
-- There was the resentful Sunday of a little later, when he sat down glowering and glooming through the tardy length of the day, with a sullen sense of injury in his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament than if he had been bred among idolaters.
-- Three or four hours passed; the flies fell into the traps by hundreds; and at length one little life, hardly stronger than theirs, appeared among the multitude of lesser deaths.
-- At length they being among the trees, Mr Meagles stopped short, and said:'Mr Clennam, will you do me the favour to look at this man?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Much against her will, Jo at length consented to sacrifice a day to Mrs. Grundy, and help her sis-ter through what she regarded as 'a nonsensical business'.
-- said Jo to herself, when she at length discov-ered that genuine good will toward one's fellow men could beautify and dignify even a stout German teacher, who shoveled in his dinner, darned his own socks, and was bur-dened with the name of Bhaer.
-- How will you have me, full length or three-quarters, on my head or my heels?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days' old Congo baby.
-- I felt worse and worse at last I got up, dressed, and softly going down in my stockinged feet, sought out my stepmother, and suddenly threw myself at her feet, beseeching her as a particular favour to give me a good slippering for my misbehaviour; anything indeed but condemning me to lie abed such an unendurable length of time.
-- But at length all the past night's events soberly recurred, one by one, in fixed reality, and then I lay only alive to the comical predicament.
-- So Jonah's Captain prepares to test the length of Jonah's purse, ere he judge him openly.
-- Hiding his canoe, still afloat, among these thickets, with its prow seaward, he sat down in the stern, paddle low in hand; and when the ship was gliding by, like a flash he darted out; gained her side; with one backward dash of his foot capsized and sank his canoe; climbed up the chains; and throwing himself at full length upon the deck, grappled a ring-bolt there, and swore not to let it go, though hacked in pieces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length the whispering ceased; and the members of the board, having resumed their seats and their solemnity, Mr. Limbkins said: 'We have considered your proposition, and we don't approve of it.'
-- said the strange boy, when Oliver had at length concluded.
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