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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
-- Bagheera stretched himself at full length and half shut his eyes.
-- He was afraid for the minute, but it is impossible for a mongoose to stay frightened for any length of time, and though Rikki-tikki had never met a live cobra before, his mother had fed him on dead ones, and he knew that all a grown mongoose's business in life was to fight and eat snakes.
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：
-- At length the sun set in a flood of glory, behind the distant western hills, and as dark-ness drew its veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminished; the last light finally disappeared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deep-er shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, and a silence soon pervaded the camp, as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed.
-- While in view of their admir-ing comrades, the same proud front and ordered array was observed, until the notes of their fifes growing fainter in distance, the forest at length appeared to swallow up the liv-ing mass which had slowly entered its bosom.
-- At length Chingach-gook turned his eyes slowly toward his son, and demanded: 'Do the Maquas dare to leave the print of their moccasins in these woods?'
-- At length they reached a point in the river where the roving eye of Heyward be-came riveted on a cluster of black objects, collected at a spot where the high bank threw a deeper shadow than usual on the dark waters.
-- At the further extremity of a narrow, deep cavern in the rock, whose length appeared much extended by the per-spective and the nature of the light by which it was seen, was seated the scout, holding a blazing knot of pine.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length I reached the sixth floor, and knocked at the door numbered thirty-two.
-- When Stroeve was holding forth at length on the excellence of Monet, he said: "I prefer Winterhalter."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length the fog gradually unrolled itself in great heavily moving waves.
-- It continued thus for a length of three miles, ending suddenly on the right with a precipice which looked as if cut by the hand of man.
-- The lines were made of fine creepers, fastened one to the other, of the length of fifteen or twenty feet.
-- The repast at length terminated; at the moment when each one was about to give himself up to sleep, Cyrus Harding drew from his pocket little specimens of different sorts of minerals, and just said, "My friends, this is iron mineral, this a pyrite, this is clay, this is lime, and this is coal.
-- The two horizontal distances were found out by means of the pole, whose length above the sand was exactly ten feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she had knocked twice or thrice there was a noise as if some person were moving inside, and at length a faint light appeared through the glass which, as it approached very slowly, the bearer having to make his way through a great many scattered articles, enabled me to see both what kind of person it was who advanced and what kind of place it was through which he came.
-- Occupied with such thoughts as these, and a crowd of others all tending to the same point, I continued to pace the street for two long hours; at length the rain began to descend heavily, and then over-powered by fatigue though no less interested than I had been at first, I engaged the nearest coach and so got home.
-- At length there sauntered up, on the opposite side of the way with a bad pretense of passing by accident a figure conspicuous for its dirty smartness, which after a great many frowns and jerks of the head, in resistance of the invitation, ultimately crossed the road and was brought into the shop.
-- Many things he had said which I had been at a loss to understand, were quite reconcilable with the idea thus presented to me, and at length I concluded that beyond all doubt he was one of this unhappy race.
-- At length the day broke, and poor Mrs Quilp, shivering with cold of early morning and harassed by fatigue and want of sleep, was discovered sitting patiently on her chair, raising her eyes at intervals in mute appeal to the compassion and clemency of her lord, and gently reminding him by an occasion cough that she was still unpardoned and that her penance had been of long duration.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told the jury at great length that if they found the prisoners guilty, they had the right to return a verdict of guilty, and if they found them not guilty, they had the right to return a verdict of not guilty.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of Time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground.
-- Transverse to the length were innumerable tables made of slabs of polished stone, raised, perhaps, a foot from the floor, and upon these were heaps of fruits.
-- They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other, and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused an immense amount of genuine, if uncivil, amusement.
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