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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian)It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.
-- Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
-- And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago.
-- With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
-- One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- 'Lor bless her dear heart, when she has lived as long as I have, sir, and had thirteen children of her own, and all on 'em dead except two, and them in the wurkus with me, she'll know better than to take on in that way, bless her dear heart!Think what it is to be a mother, there's a dear young lamb do.'
-- 'You've had a long walk, you know, or I wouldn't mention it.
-- Mr. Bumble walked on with long strides; little Oliver, firmly grasping his gold-laced cuff, trotted beside him, inquiring at the end of every quarter of a mile whether they were 'nearly there.'
-- The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But it is,' returned she; 'for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.'
-- 'Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.'
-- 'But you forget, mamma,' said Elizabeth, 'that we shall meet him at the assemblies, and that Mrs. Long promised to introduce him.'
-- 'I do not believe Mrs. Long will do any such thing.
-- 'Aye, so it is,' cried her mother, 'and Mrs. Long does not come back till the day before; so it will be impossible for her to introduce him, for she will not know him herself.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Loose, seaman-like trousers, decent shoes, a long red cap, a red sash round his waist, and a knife in it.
-- 'My friend, how is it possible for me to tell how long you are to lie here?
-- said Monsieur Rigaud, breaking a long pause.
-- 'How long have we been here?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The four young faces on which the firelight shone bright-ened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly, 'We haven't got Father, and shall not have him for a long time.'
-- observed Amy, with a re-proving look at the long figure stretched on the rug.
-- 'I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China Aster!It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boy's games and work and man-ners!I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.
-- Fifteenyear-old Jo was very tall, thin, and brown, and reminded one of a colt, for she never seemed to know what to do with her long limbs, which were very much in her way.
-- 'You won't stop, I know, as long as you can trail round in a white gown with your hair down, and wear gold-paper jewelry.
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