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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He struggled desperately, but his captors were prepared for his violence, and had a long rope ready with a slip knot, which caught his tail and rendered him powerless at once.
-- The neck was long and slender, and round the thick rim there was still an end of wire hanging, though eaten away with rust.
-- "We shall know that, too, presently, and we may affirm this much already—it comes from a long way off.
-- Look at those petrifactions all over it, these different substances almost turned to mineral, we might say, through the action of the salt water!This waif had been tossing about in the ocean a long time before the shark swallowed it."
-- "I dare say this frail concern has made a long voyage, protected by this strong covering."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a very tall, thin man, with a long nose like a beak, which jutted out between two keen, gray eyes, set closely together and spar-kling brightly from behind a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
-- Though young, his long back was already bowed, and he walked with a forward thrust of his head and a general air of peer-ing benevolence.
-- 'You will observe, Watson, the alternative use of the long s and the short.
-- When they had brought her to the Hall the maiden was placed in an upper chamber, while Hugo and his friends sat down to a long carouse, as was their nightly custom.
-- That gravel page upon which I might have read so much has been long ere this smudged by the rain and defaced by the clogs of curious peasants.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Swit-zerland or North Italy was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg.
-- Replying to them, he made known to the inquirer that he certainly had been long absent from Russia, more than four years; that he had been sent abroad for his health; that he had suffered from some strange nervous malady a kind of epilepsy, with convulsive spasms.
-- With a few exceptions, the worthy couple had lived through their long union very happily.
-- A liveried servant opened the door, and the prince was obliged to enter into long ex-planations with this gentleman, who, from the first glance, looked at him and his bundle with grave suspicion.
-- 'H'm!were you long away?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning.
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.
-- All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me.'
-- You do not yet know the full mind of Agamemnon; he was sounding us, and ere long will visit the Achaeans with his displeasure.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But they take long enough to get well, don't they?
-- "I've been waiting long enough."
-- A long research?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His beard was as black as pitch, and so long that it reached from his chin down to his feet.
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