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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cow standing erect was of the Devon breed, and was encased in a tight warm hide of rich Indian red, as absolutely uniform from eyes to tail as if the animal had been dipped in a dye of that colour, her long back being mathematically level.
-- Beside her Oak now noticed a little calf about a day old, looking idiotically at the two women, which showed that it had not long been accustomed to the phenomenon of eyesight, and often turning to the lantern, which it apparently mistook for the moon, inherited instinct having as yet had little time for correction by experience.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The oilcloth which covers the long table is so greasy that a waggish _externe_ will write his name on the surface, using his thumb-nail as a style.
-- But then he was on very good terms with the widow; he used to call her "mamma," and put his arm round her waist, a piece of flattery perhaps not appreciated to the full!The worthy woman might imagine this to be an easy feat; but, as a matter of fact, no arm but Vautrin's was long enough to encircle her.
-- Practical assistance not one could give, this they all knew, and they had long since exhausted their stock of condolence over previous discussions of their grievances.
-- With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances, she was wont to reason thus: "If Father Goriot had daughters of his own as rich as those ladies who came here seemed to be, he would not be lodging in my house, on the third floor, at forty-five francs a month; and he would not go about dressed like a poor man."
-- Unconsciously, Eugene had served his apprenticeship before he went back to Angouleme for the long vacation after taking his degrees as bachelor of arts and bachelor of law.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.
-- For a long time I was their only care.
-- They had not been long married, and their eldest child was but just born.
-- All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable.
-- It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On either side of her, the twins lounged easily in their chairs, squinting at the sunlight through tall mint-garnishedglasses as they laughed and talked, their long legs, booted to the knee and thick with saddle muscles, crossednegligently.
-- Nineteen years old, six feet two inches tall, long of bone and hard of muscle, with sunburned faces anddeep auburn hair, their eyes merry and arrogant, their bodies clothed in identical blue coats and mustard-coloredbreeches, they were as much alike as two bolls of cotton.
-- She meant what she said, for she could never long endure any conversation of which she was not the chiefsubject.
-- You know she said I was going to marry a gentleman with jet-black hairand a long black mustache, and I don't like black-haired gentlemen."
-- There were long squirrelguns that had been new when first the Alleghenies were crossed, old muzzle-loaders that had claimed many an Indianwhen Georgia was new, horse pistols that had seen service in 1812, in the Seminole wars and in Mexico, silver-mounted dueling pistols, pocket derringers, double-barreled hunting pieces and handsome new rifles of English makewith shining stocks of fine wood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.
-- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
-- "If it warn't for me you'd have been to the churchyard long ago, and stayed there.
-- For there had reached us on the wings of the wind and rain, a long shout.
-- It was at a distance towards the east, but it was long and loud.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time passed on again, and the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the golden bird; but his father would not listen to it for a long while, for he was very fond of his son, and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also, and prevent his coming back.
-- A long while after, he went to walk one day in the wood, and the old fox met him, and besought him with tears in his eyes to kill him, and cut off his head and feet.
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