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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A damnable long research,' said he, blowing the cork out, so to speak.
-- They were the soundest boots he had come across for a long time, but too large for him; whereas the ones he had were, in dry weather, a very comfortable fit, but too thin-soled for damp.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I said slowly, hoarse from my long silence.
-- They were rather loose for me, for he was large and long in his limbs.
-- The sky was clear, the sun midway down the west-ern sky; long waves, capped by the breeze with froth, were running with us.
-- He had a large, almost lipless, mouth, extraordinary lank arms, long thin feet, and bow-legs, and stood with his heavy face thrust forward staring at us.
-- This dock, as I call it, was really a mere ditch just long enough at this phase of the tide to take the longboat.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At other times he would pick the long thorns out of the pads of his friends, for wolves suffer terribly from thorns and burs in their coats.
-- I am sleepy, Bagheera, and Shere Khan is all long tail and loud talk like Mao, the Peacock.'
-- 'Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a naked man's cub and not fit to dig pig-nuts.
-- When a leader of the Pack has missed his kill, he is called the Dead Wolf as long as he lives, which is not long.
-- There was a long hush, for no single wolf cared to fight Akela to the death.
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：
-- Though the arts of peace were unknown to this fatal region, its forests were alive with men; its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes of its mountains threw back the laugh, or repeated the wan-ton cry, of many a gallant and reckless youth, as he hurried by them, in the noontide of his spirits, to slumber in a long night of forgetfulness.
-- While the regular and trained hire-lings of the king marched with haughtiness to the right of the line, the less pretending colonists took their humbler position on its left, with a docility that long practice had rendered easy.
-- His head was large; his shoulders narrow; his arms long and dangling; while his hands were small, if not delicate.
-- It would seem long practice had rendered this manual accompani-ment necessary; for it did not cease until the preposition which the poet had selected for the close of his verse had been duly delivered like a word of two syllables.
-- The cavalcade had not long passed, before the branches of the bushes that formed the thicket were cautiously moved asunder, and a human visage, as fiercely wild as savage art and unbridled passions could make it, peered out on the re-tiring footsteps of the travelers.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.
-- He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dan-gled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
-- His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
-- His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, 'in linked sweetness long drawn out,' floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky road.
-- Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives, as they sat spinning by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunt-ed brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or Galloping Hes-sian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him.
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：
-- For a long time no critic has enjoyed in France a more incontestable authority, and it was impossible not to be impressed by the claims he made; they seemed extravagant; but later judgments have confirmed his estimate, and the reputation of Charles Strickland is now firmly established on the lines which he laid down.
-- It is long since I frequented it, and if the novels that describe its present singularities are accurate much in it is now changed.
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