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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a nimble little needlewoman, and they were finished before anyone got tired of them.
-- Meg flew to rescue Amy, and Beth to pacify Jo, but Jo was quite beside herself, and with a parting box on her sister's ear, she rushed out of the room up to the old sofa in the gar-ret, and finished her fight alone.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
-- For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.
-- In sum, gentlemen, what the wildness of this canal life is, is emphatically evinced by this; that our wild whale-fishery contains so many of its most finished graduates, and that scarce any race of mankind, except Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling captains.
-- With not one tenth of England's experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that of the Americans, they have nevertheless furnished both nations with the only finished sketches at all capable of conveying the real spirit of the whale hunt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He finished the gin-and-water, and added, 'Oliver being now too old to remain here, the board have determined to have him back into the house.
-- 'Well,' said the undertaker's wife, when Oliver had finished his supper: which she had regarded in silent horror, and with fearful auguries of his future appetite: 'have you done?'
-- As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanour and full command of nerve which was essential to a finished undertaker, he had many opportunities of observing the beautiful resignation and fortitude with which some strong-minded people bear their trials and losses.
-- The young gentleman smiled, as if to intimate that the latter fragments of discourse were playfully ironical; and finished the beer as he did so.
-- The beadle drank his tea to the last drop; finished a piece of toast; whisked the crumbs off his knees; wiped his lips; and deliberately kissed the matron.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have not the pleasure of understanding you,' said he, when she had finished her speech.
-- said Jane as she finished it.
-- From the entrance-hall, of which Mr. Collins pointed out, with a rapturous air, the fine proportion and the finished ornaments, they followed the servants through an ante-chamber, to the room where Lady Catherine, her daughter, and Mrs. Jenkinson were sitting.
-- cried Elizabeth, darting from her seat as she finished the letter, in eagerness to fol-low him, without losing a moment of the time so precious; but as she reached the door it was opened by a servant, and Mr. Darcy appeared.
-- cried Elizabeth when she had finished it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I finished this work in about a fortnight; and I think my powder, which in all was about two hundred and forty pounds weight, was divided in not less than a hundred parcels.
-- This want of tools made every work I did go on heavily; and it was near a whole year before I had entirely finished my little pale, or surrounded my habitation.
-- - After my morning walk I went to work with my table again, and finished it, though not to my liking; nor was it long before I learned to mend it.
-- - My other work having now stood still, be-cause of my making these tools, when they were finished I went on, and working every day, as my strength and time allowed, I spent eighteen days entirely in widening and deepening my cave, that it might hold my goods commo-diously.
-- - I finished the ladder; so I went up the ladder to the top, and then pulled it up after me, and let it down in the inside.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was several days before Willoughby's name was mentioned before Marianne by any of her family; Sir John and Mrs. Jennings, indeed, were not so nice; their witticisms added pain to many a painful hour; but one evening, Mrs. Dashwood, accidentally taking up a volume of Shakespeare, exclaimed,"We have never finished Hamlet, Marianne; our dear Willoughby went away before we could get through it.
-- My poor little girl would be sadly disappointed, I know, if the basket was not finished tomorrow, for though I told her it certainly would not, I am sure she depends upon having it done."
-- 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.
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