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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lived near Victoria Station, and I recall long excursions by bus to the hospitable houses of the literary.
-- They are like cells in the body, essential, but, so long as they remain healthy, engulfed in the momentous whole.
-- It's evidently been going on a long time."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It contained 50,000 cubic feet of gas, and, thanks to its capacity, it could maintain itself a long time in the air, although it should reach a great altitude or might be thrown into a horizontal position.
-- "A little, but it will not be long before it falls again."
-- This intrepid fellow was a Negro born on the engineer's estate, of a slave father and mother, but to whom Cyrus, who was an Abolitionist from conviction and heart, had long since given his freedom.
-- The Governor of Richmond for a long time had been unable to communicate with General Lee, and he very much wished to make known to him the situation of the town, so as to hasten the march of the army to their relief.
-- However, Pencroft observed that the shore was more equal, that the ground rose, and he declared that it was joined by a long slope to a hill, whose massive front he thought that he could see looming indistinctly through the mist.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is a very long way from here,' said I, 'my child.'
-- 'I am afraid it is a very long way, for I came from there to-night.'
-- It was an old man with long grey hair, whose face and figure as he held the light above his head and looked before him as he approached, I could plainly see.
-- 'A long way, wasn't it, Kit?'
-- It has been a long time coming, but it must come at last; a very long time, but it surely must come.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The face of the woman was of that whiteness peculiar to people who have been a long time in confinement, and which reminds one of potato-sprouts in a cellar.
-- In the evening a tall man with long hair just turning gray, and gray beard, came into the room.
-- Maslova had for a long time been addicted to cigarette smoking, but of late she had been getting more and more accustomed to drink.
-- At the time when Maslova, exhausted by the long walk, was approaching with the armed convoy the building in which court was held, the same nephew of the ladies that brought her up, Prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Nekhludoff, who deceived her, lay on his high, soft, spring feather-bed, in spotless Holland linen, smoking a cigarette.
-- The maid brought it long ago, and is now waiting in my room," said Agrippina Petrovna, handing him the letter with a significant smile.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long ago I had a vague inkling of a machine ""To travel through Time!"
-- Then, still smiling faintly, and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets, he walked slowly out of the room, and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory.
-- It's too long a story to tell over greasy plates."
-- So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered: I was, so to speak, attenuated was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!But to come to a stop involved the jamming of myself, molecule by molecule, into whatever lay in my way; meant bringing my atoms into such intimate contact with those of the obstacle that a profound chemical reaction possibly a far-reaching explosion would result, and blow myself and my apparatus out of all possible dimensions into the Unknown.
-- My general impression of the world I saw over their heads was a tangled waste of beautiful bushes and flowers, a long neglected and yet weedless garden.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had had quite a long argument with her sister only the day before all because Alice had begun with 'Let's pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being very exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were only two of them, and Alice had been reduced at last to say, 'Well, you can be one of them then, and I'll be all the rest.'
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