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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I observed in this last part of his discourse, which was truly prophetic, though I suppose my father did not know it to be so himself - I say, I observed the tears run down his face very plentifully, especially when he spoke of my broth-er who was killed: and that when he spoke of my having leisure to repent, and none to assist me, he was so moved that he broke off the discourse, and told me his heart was so full he could say no more to me.
-- I warrant you were frighted, wer'n't you, last night, when it blew but a capful of wind?'
-- It was with the utmost hazard the boat came near us; but it was impossible for us to get on board, or for the boat to lie near the ship's side, till at last the men rowing very heartily, and venturing their lives to save ours, our men cast them a rope over the stern with a buoy to it, and then veered it out a great length, which they, after much labour and haz-ard, took hold of, and we hauled them close under our stern, and got all into their boat.
-- An irresistible reluctance continued to going home; and as I stayed away a while, the remembrance of the dis-tress I had been in wore off, and as that abated, the little motion I had in my desires to return wore off with it, till at last I quite laid aside the thoughts of it, and looked out for a voyage.
-- Indeed, it took us both up the whole day, but at last we got off the hide of him, and spreading it on the top of our cabin, the sun effectually dried it in two days' time, and it afterwards served me to lie upon.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It was my father's last request to me," replied her husband, "that I should assist his widow and daughters."
-- Mrs. Dashwood had been informed by her husband of the solemn promise on the part of his son in their favour, which gave comfort to his last earthly reflections.
-- Oh!mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night!I felt for my sister most severely.
-- Many were the tears shed by them in their last adieus to a place so much beloved.
-- said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; "when shall I cease to regret you! when learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh!happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees! but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last he had a clew to her interest, and followed it deftly.
-- At last she inquired of a police officer, and was directed to proceed "two blocks up," where she would find "The Fair."
-- One of those forlorn impulses which often grow out of a fixed sense of defeat, the last sprouting of a baffled and uprooted growth of ideas, seized upon her.
-- At last she yielded enough to ask Hanson.
-- "Did you see Harry last night?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went out in the woods and turned it over in my mind a long time, but I couldn't see no advantage about it except for the other peo- ple; so at last I reckoned I wouldn't worry about it any more, but just let it go.
-- 'Oh, yes, a half-yearly is in last night over a hundred and fifty dollars.
-- He got to hanging around the widow's too much and so she told him at last that if he didn't quit using around there she would make trouble for him.
-- He hopped around the cabin con- siderable, first on one leg and then on the other, hold- ing first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left foot all of a sudden and fetched the tub a rattling kick.
-- At last I got so sleepy I couldn't keep my eyes open all I could do, and so before I knowed what I was about I was sound asleep, and the candle burning.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he was about to put the last touches on the finger tips, Geppetto felt his wig being pulled off.
-- At these last words, Pinocchio jumped up in a fury, took a hammer from the bench, and threw it with all his strength at the Talking Cricket.
-- With a last weak "cri-cri-cri" the poor Cricket fell from the wall, dead!
-- he said after eating the last one.
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