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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the thigh-bones were burned, and they had tasted the in-ward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off; then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.
-- They were finished all but the ears of cunning workmanship which yet remained to be fixed to them: these he was now fixing, and he was ham-mering at the rivets.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And while she herself finished mixing the mustard, she gave Millie a few verbal stabs for her excessive slowness.
-- I overlooked " and Mr. Henfrey finished and went.
-- It was two o'clock before Dr. Kemp had finished his work for the night.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was evidently satisfied with the frankness of my story, which I told in concise sentences enough, for I felt horribly weak; and when it was finished he reverted at once to the topic of Natural History and his own biological studies.
-- It looked quite human to me when I had finished it; but when I went to it I was discontented with it.
-- I thought him a fair specimen of the negroid type when I had finished him, and he lay bandaged, bound, and motionless before me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sea Catch had just finished his forty-fifth fight one spring when Matkah, his soft, sleek, gentle-eyed wife, came up out of the sea, and he caught her by the scruff of the neck and dumped her down on his reservation, saying gruffly: 'Late as usual.
-- Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots.
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：
-- 'Would not our resting-place have been more retired, my worthy friend,' demanded the more vigilant Duncan, per-ceiving that the scout had already finished his short survey, 'had we chosen a spot less known, and one more rarely vis-ited than this?'
-- Just hereaway, where you see the trees rise into a mountain swell, I met a party coming down to our aid, and I led them where the enemy were taking their meal, little dreaming that they had not finished the bloody work of the day.'
-- Then, extending the little volume, and giving the pitch of the air anew with considerate attention, David recom-menced and finished his strains, with a fixedness of manner that it was not easy to interrupt.
-- Duncan, as may be gathered from the words of his com-panion, was eagerly obeying; and, as the other finished speaking, he took the light person of Alice in his arms, and followed in the footsteps of the scout.
-- It would have been impossible for the most finished breeding to wear more of the appearance of con-sidering the visit as a thing of course, than did his hosts, notwithstanding every individual present was perfectly aware that it must be connected with some secret object and that probably of importance to themselves.
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：
-- I finished tea.
-- I imagine that for months the matter never comes into your head, and you're able to persuade yourself that you've finished with it for good and all.
-- When it was finished I said to him:"Look here, if you're hard up, let me see your pictures.
-- "But you told me you had to get a picture finished this week."
-- When he had finished I called the waiter to pay for the drinks, and left them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gideon Spilett had not finished this exciting sentence when the sailor, followed by Neb and Herbert, darted on the kangaroos tracks.
-- They were finished before the transformation of the sulphuret into sulphate of iron had been accomplished.
-- All this was finished about the 18th of May, nearly at the time when the chemical transformation terminated.
-- But the engineer had not finished his lecture.
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