finished是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 制成的，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good.
-- He drew out his sword and gave each of them a couple of thrusts in the breast, and then went out to the horsemen and said: 'The work is done; I have finished both of them off, but it was hard work!They tore up trees in their sore need, and defended themselves with them, but all that is to no purpose when a man like myself comes, who can kill seven at one blow.'
-- Then, when the bird came home and had laid aside his burden, they sat 119down to table, and when they had finished their meal, they could sleep their fill till the following morning: and that was really a very delightful life.
-- And when he had finished his song, he spread his wings, and with the chain in his right claw, the shoes in his left, and the millstone round his neck, he flew right away to his father's house.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I had finished my work, I desired the emperor to let a troop of his best horses twenty-four in number, come and exercise upon this plain.
-- The fellow was an ingenious workman, and by my instructions, in ten days, finished a pleasure-boat with all its tackling, able conve-niently to hold eight Europeans.
-- And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.
-- But I shall not trouble the reader with a par-ticular description of my own mechanics; let it suffice to say, that in six weeks time with the help of the sorrel nag, who performed the parts that required most labour, I finished a sort of Indian canoe, but much larger, covering it with the skins of Yahoos, well stitched together with hempen threads of my own making.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Weel, ma'am,' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was hungry, so hungry, that by way of dessert I finished up with a basin of thick oaten porridge.
-- Having finished their repast, my two companions laid themselves down upon their rugs, and found in sleep a remedy for their fatigue and sufferings.
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：
-- Connie found it impossible to come to her crisis before he had really finished his.
-- Because, after all, like so many modern men, he was finished almost before he had begun.
-- Slender, quiet and quick, the man finished the coop he was making, turned it over, tried the sliding door, then set it aside.
-- An' then he slipped on Bestwood Hill, on a slide as the lads 'ad made last winter, an' broke his thigh, and that finished him, poor old man, it did seem a shame.
-- Even the tightness of his arms round her, even the intense movement of his body, and the springing of his seed in her, was a kind of sleep, from which she did not begin to rouse till he had finished and lay softly panting against her breast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this time, though he had finished his supper, he was nervously going about his plate with his knife and fork, as if some of it were still before him.
-- When she had finished the wine and these encomiums, he charged her to load her basket (she was never without her basket) with every eatable thing upon the table, and to take especial care to leave no scrap behind.
-- She had not yet finished preparing Mrs Clennam's tea, when the soft knock came to the door which always announced Little Dorrit.
-- He finished by freezing a cup of tea for his own drinking, and retiring at his lowest temperature.
-- However, it's worth an inquiry; and as I would rather make it in company than alone, and as you too were a fellow-traveller of that immovable woman's, I thought perhaps ' Clennam finished the sentence for him by taking up his hat again, and saying he was ready.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Meg went away to 'accept with thanks', look over her dress, and sing blithely as she did up her one real lace frill, while Jo finished her story, her four apples, and had a game of romps with Scrabble.
-- After various lesser mishaps, Meg was finished at last, and by the united exertions of the entire family Jo's hair was got up and her dress on.
-- Jo told her adventures, and by the time she had finished they were at home.
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