long是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 长的， 长时间的， 长期的ad. 长久， 长期地，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and ori-gin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
-- The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dan-gling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
-- The fireplace was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures.
-- It was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago.
-- The arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burn-ing people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of six-pence.
-- 'Long ago.'
-- 'Long ago.'
-- Mr. Lorry had been idle a long time, and had just poured out his last glassful of wine with as complete an appearance of satisfaction as is ever to be found in an elderly gentleman of a fresh complexion who has got to the end of a bottle, when a rattling of wheels came up the narrow street, and rumbled into the inn-yard.
-- ' respecting the small property of my poor father, whom I never saw so long dead ' Mr. Lorry moved in his chair, and cast a troubled look to-wards the hospital procession of negro cupids.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Councillor supported his head on his hand, drew a long breath, and thought over all the wondrous things he saw around him.
-- 'They be- long no doubt to the lieutenant who lives over the way.
-- Her nephew, a merry boy, who was his aunt's dar-ling, begged so long for these spectacles, that, at last, she lent him the treasure, after having informed him, with many exhortations, that in order to execute the interesting trick, he need only repair to some place where a great many persons were assembled; and then, from a higher position, whence he could overlook the crowd, pass the company in review before him through his spectacles.
-- 'tis a long time since I have thought on those times.
-- 'It is really pleasant enough,' said he: 'the whole day long I sit in the office amid the driest law-papers, and at night I fly in my dream as a lark in the gardens of Fredericksburg; one might really write a very pretty comedy upon it.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned over his stout, well-cared- for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes.
-- He had never clearly thought out the subject, but he had vaguely conceived that his wife must long ago have suspected him of being unfaithful to her, and shut her eyes to the fact.
-- "We have long been expecting you," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, going into his room and letting Levin's hand go as though to show that here all danger was over.
-- Levin was silent, looking at the unknown faces of Oblonsky's two companions, and especially at the hand of the elegant Grinevitch, which had such long white fingers, such long yellow filbert- shaped nails, and such huge shining studs on the shirt-cuff, that apparently they absorbed all his attention, and allowed him no freedom of thought.
-- "I have the honor of knowing your brother, Sergey Ivanovitch," said Grinevitch, holding out his slender hand with its long nails.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last a long article appeared, on the 7th of October, in the bulletin of the Royal Geographical Society, which treated the question from every point of view, and demonstrated the utter folly of the enterprise.
-- "How long will she stop at Suez?"
-- "Four hours; long enough to get in her coal.
-- "And you have known your master a long time?"
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