final是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 最终的， 决定性的n. 结局； 决赛； 期末考试，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：
-- In three minutes, without pause or modification, she had written a letter to Boldwood, at his address beyond Casterbridge, saying mildly but firmly that she had well considered the whole subject he had brought before her and kindly given her time to decide upon; that her final decision was that she could not marry him.
-- "Bathsheba darling is it final indeed?"
-- said Bathsheba, giving a final adjustment to her dress before leaving the glass.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- la Comtesse de l'Ambermesnil, a widow of six and thirty, who was awaiting the final settlement of her husband's affairs, and of another matter regarding a pension due to her as the wife of a general who had died "on the field of battle."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in 35their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
-- I hardly know whether I shall have the power to detail it; yet the tale which I have recorded would be incomplete without this final and won-derful catastrophe.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- India was nowhere to be seen, but Scarlett knew she probably was in the kitchen giving final instructions to theservants.
-- But the quick thudding only increased as she heard him call a final farewell and walk into the front hall.
-- It was high tide of devotion and pride in their hearts, high tide of the Confederacy, for final victory was at hand.
-- It was at Mrs. Elsing's silver musicale for the benefit of the convalescents that Rhett signed his final warrant ofostracism.
-- The General is preparing tomake his final stand here."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on the edge of the plaster, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf: which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other.
-- said I, when I had done my stirring, and was taking a final warm in the chimney corner before being sent up to bed; "was that great guns, Joe?"
-- We got a chair out, ready for Mrs. Joe's alighting, and stirred up the fire that they might see a bright window, and took a final survey of the kitchen that nothing might be out of its place.
-- The only remark I ever heard him make on your story, was the final one, "The thing is settled and done, or Mr. Jaggers would not be in it."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having thus answered the only objection that can ever be raised against me as a traveller, I here take a final leave of all my courteous readers, and return to enjoy my own specula-tions in my little garden at Redriff; to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which I learned among the Houyhnhnms; to instruct the Yahoos of my own family, is far as I shall find them docible animals; to behold my figure often in aglass, and thus, if possible, habituate myself by time to tol-erate the sight of a human creature; to lament the brutality to Houyhnhnms in my own country, but always treat their persons with respect, for the sake of my noble master, his family, his friends, and the whole Houyhnhnm race, whom these of ours have the honour to resemble in all their linea-ments, however their intellectuals came to degenerate.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The final blow of all.
-- There were yet forty-eight hours to elapse before we made our final start.
-- They appeared to be about to inflict on us the usual final kiss of the Icelanders.
-- The final sound was sooner heard.
-- At last, one final trembling flame remained in the lamp; I followed it with all my power of vision; I gasped for breath; I concentrated upon it all the power of my soul, as upon the last scintillation of light I was ever destined to see: and then I was to be lost forever in Cimmerian and tenebrous shades.
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：
-- It had a thrill of its own too: a queer vibrating thrill inside the body, a final spasm of self-assertion, like the last word, exciting, and very like the row of asterisks that can be put to show the end of a paragraph, and a break in the theme.
-- To Clifford this was final and enough.
-- The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he WASan outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly, no matter how Bond-Streety he was on the outside.
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