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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some time past vessels had been met by "an enormous thing," a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.
-- As long as I could deny the reality of the fact, I confined myself to a decided negative.
-- If we do NOT know them all if Nature has still secrets in the deeps for us, nothing is more conformable to reason than to admit the existence of fishes, or cetaceans of other kinds, or even of new species, of an organisation formed to inhabit the strata inaccessible to soundings, and which an accident of some sort has brought at long intervals to the upper level of the ocean.
-- So when the frigate had been armed for a long campaign, and provided with formidable fishing apparatus, no one could tell what course to pursue.
-- As long as the sun described its daily course, the rigging was crowded with sailors, whose feet were burnt to such an extent by the heat of the deck as to render it unbearable; still the Abraham Lincoln had not yet breasted the suspected waters of the Pacific.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a long pause, whilst Ursula stitched and Gudrun went on with her sketch.
-- Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street.
-- Near at hand came the long rows of dwellings, approaching curved up the hill-slope, in straight lines along the brow of the hill.
-- She clung to Ursula, who, through long usage was inured to this violation of a dark, uncreated, hostile world.
-- One of them she knew, a tall, slow, reluctant woman with a weight of fair hair and a pale, long face.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While enjoying a month of fine weather at the sea coast, I was thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature: a real goddess in my eyes, as long as she took no notice of me.
-- Take the road you came,' she answered, ensconcing herself in a chair, with a candle, and the long book open before her.
-- Oh, certainly, sir!I'll just fetch a little sewing, and then I'll sit as long as you please.
-- You may choose what you like: only let it be little, for I shall walk there and back: sixty miles each way, that is a long spell!'
-- It seemed a long while to us all the three days of his absence and often did little Cathy ask when he would be home.
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：
-- Still, you're the right colour, and that goes a long way.'
-- A little provoked, she drew back, and after looking everywhere for the queen (whom she spied out at last, a long way off), she thought she would try the plan, this time, of walking in the opposite direction.
-- She had not been walking a minute before she found herself face to face with the Red Queen, and full in sight of the hill she had been so long aiming at.
-- 'Well, in our country,' said Alice, still panting a little, 'you'd generally get to somewhere else if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one way, indeed, he bade fair to ruin us, for he kept on staying week after week, and at last month after month, so that all the money had been long exhausted, and still my father never plucked up the heart to insist on having more.
-- But by this time we had all long ceased to pay any particular notice to the song; it was new, that night, to nobody but Dr. Livesey, and on him I observed it did not produce an agreeable effect, for he looked up for a moment quite angrily before he went on with his talk to old Taylor, the gardener, on a new cure for the rheumatics.
-- 2 Black Dog Appears and DisappearsT was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his affairs.
-- For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen, I could hear nothing but a low gattling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two, mostly oaths, from the captain.
-- And now, matey, did that doctor say how long I was to lie here in this old berth?"
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