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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw him on the deck of the BRITANNIA, and then struggling with the billows, then clinging to the rocks, and lying at length exhausted on the beach.
-- Of course, his weight shut up the instrument immediately by pushing the different parts one into the other, and so suddenly, that he fell full length on deck, and lay sprawling at the foot of the mainmast.
-- At length he accosted Lord Glenarvan once more, and said—"And this DUNCAN—where is she going?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length he put it down, as if despairing of success; and, leaning back in his chair, muttered: 'What a fine thing capital punishment is!Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light.
-- The coach rattled away, over nearly the same ground as that which Oliver had traversed when he first entered London in company with the Dodger; and, turning a different way when it reached the Angel at Islington, stopped at length before a neat house, in a quiet shady street near Pentonville.
-- Having superadded many injunctions to be sure and not take cold, the old lady at length permitted him to depart.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their lodgings were not long a secret, and at length they be-gan to know the officers themselves.
-- The perpetual commendations of the lady, ei- ther on his handwriting, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in union with her opinion of each.
-- Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth was positively resolved nor did she much expect it would be asked; and fearful, on the contrary, as being considered as intruding themselves needlessly long, she urged Jane to borrow Mr. Bingley's carriage immediately, and at length it was settled that their original design of leaving Netherfield that morning should be mentioned, and the request made.
-- At length Darcy spoke, and in a constrained manner said, 'Mr.
-- Mr. Collins, however, was not discouraged from speaking again, and Mr. Darcy's contempt seemed abundantly increasing with the length of his second speech, and at the end of it he only made him a slight bow, and moved another way.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was now furnished with roots and corn, such as it was, and water; and leaving my friendly negroes, I made forward for about eleven days more, without offering to go near the shore, till I saw the land run out a great length into the sea, at about the distance of four or five leagues before me; and the sea being very calm, I kept a large offing to make this point.
-- I did my utmost, by setting my back against the chests, to keep them in their places, but could not thrust off the raft with all my strength; neither durst I stir from the posture I was in; but holding up the chests with all my might, I stood in that manner near half-an-hour, in which time the rising of the water brought me a little more upon a level; and a little after, the water still-rising, my raft floated again, and Ithrust her off with the oar I had into the channel, and then driving up higher, I at length found myself in the mouth of a little river, with land on both sides, and a strong current of tide running up.
-- At length I spied a little cove on the right shore of the creek, to which with great pain and difficulty I guided my raft, and at last got so near that, reaching ground with my oar, I could thrust her directly in.
-- When I had done this, I blocked up the door of the tent with some boards within, and an empty chest set up on end without; and spreading one of the beds upon the ground, laying my two pistols just at my head, and my gun at length by me, I went to bed for the first time, and slept very qui-etly all night, for I was very weary and heavy; for the night before I had slept little, and had laboured very hard all day to fetch all those things from the ship, and to get them on shore.
-- At length I contrived a wheel with a string, to turn it with my foot, that I might have both my hands at liberty.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length she replied:"Do not be offended, Elinor, if my praise of him is not in every thing equal to your sense of his merits.
-- But at length she was secured by the exertions of Elinor, who greatly disapproved such continual seclusion.
-- Her astonishment at what she heard was at first too great for words; but at length forcing herself to speak, and to speak cautiously, she said, with calmness of manner, which tolerably well concealed her surprise and solicitude "May I ask if your engagement is of long standing?"
-- At length Lucy exclaimed with a deep sigh,"I believe it would be the wisest way to put an end to the business at once by dissolving the engagement.
-- Marianne's was finished in a very few minutes; in length it could be no more than a note; it was then folded up, sealed, and directed with eager rapidity.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But of course I forgot all about driving slow on accounts of being glad and full of thinking; so I got home a heap too quick for that length of a trip.
-- They cussed Jim considerble, though, and give him a cuff or two side the head once in a while, but Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to know me, and they took him to the same cabin, and put his own clothes on him, and chained him again, and not to no bed-leg this time, but to a big staple drove into the bot- tom log, and chained his hands, too, and both legs, and said he warn't to have noth-ing but bread and water to eat after this till his owner come, or he was sold at auc- tion because he didn't come in a cer-tain length of time, and filled up our hole, and said a couple of farmers with guns must stand watch around about the cabin every night, and a bulldog tied to the door in the day- time; and about this time they was through with the job and was tapering off with a kind of generl good-bye cussing, and then the old doctor comes and takes a look, and says: 'Don't be no rougher on him than you're obleeged to, be-cause he ain't a bad nigger.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Crying as if his heart would break, the Marionette mourned for hours over the length of his nose.
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