last是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 最后的， 刚过去的ad. 最后n. 最后v. 持续，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he persisted, standing still at last in despair of ever reaching her, and facing over the bush.
-- Stupors, however, do not last for ever, and Farmer Oak recovered from his.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he was careful of his wardrobe, only taking last year's clothes into daily wear, still upon occasion he could issue forth as a young man of fashion.
-- Until the first year was nearly at an end, Goriot had dined out once or twice every week, but these occasions came less frequently, and at last he was scarcely absent from the dinner-table twice a month.
-- de Restaud's face swam again and again before his eyes like a vision of a brilliant future; and at last he lay down and slept with clenched fists.
-- "Sylvie," said Christophe, as he dipped a piece of toast into the coffee, "M. Vautrin, who is not such a bad sort, all the same, had two people come to see him again last night.
-- "It is a strange thing, isn't it, Sylvie, how M. Vautrin got in last night after Christophe had bolted the door?"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
-- Last Monday (July 31st) we were nearly surrounded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides, scarcely leaving her the sea-room in which she floated.
-- This last blow overcame her, and she knelt by Beaufort's coffin weeping bitterly, when my father entered the chamber.
-- When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hang-ing in the stars and ready to envelop me.
-- Clerval spent the last evening with us.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, Ashley Wilkes and hisfather told Pa just last week that our commissioners in Washington would come to to an amicable agreement withMr. Lincoln about the Confederacy.
-- "Didn't she say anything when you got home last night?"
-- "We were in luck last night.
-- Just before we got home that new stallion Ma got in Kentucky last month wasbrought in, and the place was in a stew.
-- At these last sounds, the twins realized it was time they were starting home.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well," said Joe, glancing up at the Dutch clock, "she's been on the Ram-page, this last spell, about five minutes, Pip.
-- "You know, Pip," said Joe, solemnly, with his last bite in his cheek, and speaking in a confidential voice, as if we two were quite alone, "you and me is always friends, and I'd be the last to tell upon you, any time.
-- "There was a conwict off last night," said Joe, aloud, "after sunset-gun.
-- "Mrs. Joe," said I, as a last resort, "I should like to know--if you wouldn't much mind--where the firing comes from?"
-- I was never allowed a candle to light me to bed, and, as I went upstairs in the dark, with my head tingling,--from Mrs. Joe's thimble having played the tambourine upon it, to accompany her last words,--I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the hulks were handy for me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch.
-- Howev-er, at last it was agreed he should go, for he would not rest at home; and as he came to the wood, he met the fox, and heard the same good counsel.
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