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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At Moscow lately a father was heard urging his son to stop at nothing at nothing, mind you! to get money!The press seized upon the story, of course, and now it is public property.
-- It so happens, luckily, that I know his handwriting, for I have lately had business with him.
-- A month after Muishkin's departure, Mrs. Epanchin received a letter from her old friend Princess Bielokonski (who had lately left for Moscow), which letter put her into the greatest good humour.
-- 'It reminds me,' said Evgenie Pavlovitch, laughing, 'of the famous plea of a certain lawyer who lately defended a man for murdering six people in order to rob them.
-- He informed Muishkin that his father had lately found a new interpretation of the star called 'wormwood,' which fell upon the water-springs, as described in the Apocalypse.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you want to find your way into the host of the Tro-jans, there are the Thracians, who have lately come here and lie apart from the others at the far end of the camp; and they have Rhesus son of Eioneus for their king.
-- He slew Othryoneus from Cabesus, a sojourner, who had but lately come to take part in the war.
-- The greater part of them has fierce Mars laid low, and Hector, him who was alone left, him who was the guardian of the city and ourselves, him have you lately slain; therefore I am now come to the ships of the Achaeans to ransom his body from you with a great ransom.
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：
-- The uproar which had so lately echoed through the vaults of the forest was gone, leaving the rush of the waters to swell and sink on the currents of the air, in the unmingled sweetness of nature.
-- The report of the weap-on made the cavern bellow like an eruption from a volcano; and when the smoke it vomited had been driven away be-fore the current of air which issued from the ravine the place so lately occupied by the features of his treacherous guide was vacant.
-- Aided by Duncan and the younger Mohican, the two latter descended the precipitous sides of that hill which they had so lately ascended under so very different auspices, and whose summit had so nearly proved the scene of their massacre.
-- For an instant the moth-er stood, like a statue of despair, looking wildly down at the unseemly object, which had so lately nestled in her bosom and smiled in her face; and then she raised her eyes and countenance toward heaven, as if calling on God to curse the perpetrator of the foul deed.
-- The blood-stained conquerors had departed; and their camp, which had so lately rung with the merry rejoicings of a victorious army, lay a silent and deserted city of huts.
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：
-- Chapter LIVAs we walked along I reflected on a circumstance which all that I had lately heard about Strickland forced on my attention.
-- I have had a few aches and pains lately and a little fever, but that's nothing; it will pass off.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked wistfully into the street we had lately quitted, and after a time directed my steps that way.
-- 'How very often you have come backwards and forwards lately to Mr Quilp, my dear.'
-- But, another glance around called to her mind all that had lately passed, and she sprung from her bed, hoping and trustful.
-- In one so young, and so unused to the scenes in which she had lately moved, this sinking of the spirit was not surprising.
-- CHAPTER 25After a sound night's rest in a chamber in the thatched roof, in which it seemed the sexton had for some years been a lodger, but which he had lately deserted for a wife and a cottage of his own, the child rose early in the morning and descended to the room where she had supped last night.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was raised in an intelligent, noble family, and could make her living by honest toil, but she leaves them, yields to her passions, and displays an intelligence, and especially, as you have heard here, gentlemen of the jury, an ability to exert influence on people by that mysterious, lately discovered by science, especially by the school of Charcot, power known by the name of hypnotic suggestion.
-- And he suddenly understood that the disgust which he had lately felt toward everybody, and especially to-day toward the Prince and Maria Vasilievna, and Missy, and Kornei, was disgust with himself.
-- Nekhludoff said that he had but lately arrived.
-- Besides his wish to see Mariette again, he also wished, as he thought, to measure himself against that world lately so near, but now so strange to him.
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