lately是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 最近， 不久前，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There she sat and who would have guessed how many tears she had been lately shedding?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beside the provisions lay the flute, whose notes had lately been called forth by the lonely watcher to beguile a tedious hour.
-- I'm lately come to this place."
-- "Well, ye see, neighbours, I was lately married to a woman, and she's my vocation now, and so ye see " The young man halted lamely.
-- "I think you are conceited, nevertheless," said Bathsheba, looking askance at a reed she was fitfully pulling with one hand, having lately grown feverish under the soldier's system of procedure not because the nature of his cajolery was entirely unperceived, but because its vigour was overwhelming.
-- "The other day they said you were trifling with him, and you almost proved that you were not; lately they have said that you be not, and you straightway begin to show ""That I am, I suppose you mean."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You have guessed right; I have lately been so deeply en-gaged in one occupation that I have not allowed myself 62 Frankensteinsufficient rest, as you see; but I hope, I sincerely hope, that all these employments are now at an end and that I am at length free.'
-- 'Nothing indeed could be more unfortunate and agoniz-ing than the strange chances that have lately occurred.
-- I escaped from them to the room where lay the body of Elizabeth, my love, my wife, so lately living, so dear, so worthy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fire had been lately kindled in the damp old-fashioned grate, and it was more disposed to go out than to burn up, and the reluctant smoke which hung in the room seemed colder than the clearer air,--like our own marsh mist.
-- I took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the crumpled play-bill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very week, of "the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles."
-- The windows of the rooms on that side, lately occupied by Provis, were dark and still, and there was no lounger in Garden Court.
-- While I was considering that some one must have been there lately and must soon be coming back, or the candle would not be burning, it came into my head to look if the wick were long.
-- At length we gave it up, and pulled under the shore towards the tavern we had lately left, where we were received with no little surprise.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the ex-tremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princ-es of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:- '1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our do-minions, without our license under our great seal.
-- His speech was to the following effect, for I took notes of it as soon as he left me:- 'You are to know,' said he, 'that several committees of council have been lately called, in the most private manner, on your account; and it is but two days since his majesty came to a full resolution.
-- 79 ''That, whereas certain ambassadors arrived from the Court of Blefuscu, to sue for peace in his majesty's court, he, the said Flestrin, did, like a false traitor, aid, abet, comfort, and divert, the said ambassadors, although he knew them to be servants to a prince who was lately an open enemy to his imperial majesty, and in an open war against his said majesty.
-- ''That the said Quinbus Flestrin, contrary to the duty of a faithful subject, is now preparing to make a voyage to the court and empire of Blefuscu, for which he has received only verbal license from his imperial majesty; and, under colour of the said license, does falsely and traitorously in-tend to take the said voyage, and thereby to aid, comfort, and abet the emperor of Blefuscu, so lately an enemy, and in open war with his imperial majesty aforesaid.'
-- And as for that monstrous animal with 151whom I was so lately engaged (it was indeed as large as an elephant), if my fears had suffered me to think so far as to make use of my hanger,' (looking fiercely, and clapping my hand on the hilt, as I spoke) 'when he poked his paw into my chamber, perhaps I should have given him such a wound, as would have made him glad to withdraw it with more haste than he put it in.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters, had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs.
-- He has lately got in the way of being always goosed, and he can't stand it.'
-- 'How can I,' she returned, with more of her first manner on her than he had lately seen, 'when I know nothing of them, men or women?'
-- The objects he had lately pursued, turned worthless beside her; such success as was almost in his grasp, he flung away from him like the dirt it was, compared with her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lately received from my friend Augustus Peterman, of Leipzig, a map.
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