endless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 无止境的，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《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For an endless period, as it seemed to me, I lay with my head on the thwart watching the schooner (she was a lit-tle ship, schooner-rigged fore and aft) come up out of the sea.
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：
-- But when we arrived at the hospital, a gaunt, cheerless building, the mere sight of which was enough to make one's heart sick, and after being directed from this official to that, up endless stairs and through long, bare corridors, found the doctor in charge of the case, we were told that the patient was too ill to see anyone that day.
-- As I walked up the endless stairs of the house in which Strickland lived, I confess that I was a little excited.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On every side, and far as the eye could see into the heavy distance, tall chimneys, crowding on each other, and presenting that endless repetition of the same dull, ugly form, which is the horror of oppressive dreams, poured out their plague of smoke, obscured the light, and made foul the melancholy air.
-- It was also required of him that he should partake of their exercise of constantly ascending an endless flight of stairs; and, lest his legs, unused to such exertion, should be weakened by it, that he should wear upon one ankle an amulet or charm of iron.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he was a courageous, free man, before whom opened endless possibilities; now he felt himself caught in the tenets of a stupid, idle, aimless, miserable life, from which there was no escape; aye, from which, for the most part, he would not escape.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only this life with Clifford, this endless spinning of webs of yarn, of the minutiae of consciousness, these stories Sir Malcolm said there was nothing in, and they wouldn't last.
-- In the wind of March endless phrases swept through her consciousness.
-- The first windflow-ers were out, and all the wood seemed pale with the pallor of endless little anemones, sprinkling the shaken floor.
-- She wanted to be clear of him, and especially of his consciousness, his words, his obsession with himself, his endless treadmill ob-session with himself, and his own words.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- to purchase her redemption from endless misery, if she could.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Of course not, but I don't see the use of your having sev-enteen waistcoats, endless neckties, and a new hat every time you come home.
-- She caught endless colds sitting on damp grass to book 'delicious bit', composed of a stone, a stump, one mushroom, and a broken mullein stalk, or 'a heavenly mass of clouds', that looked like a choice display of featherbeds when done.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
-- "I saw the opening maw of hell,With endless pains and sorrows there;Which none but they that feel can tell Oh, I was plunging to despair.
-- For loath to depart, yet; very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a voyage beyond both stormy Capes; a ship in which some thousands of his hard earned dollars were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate sailed as captain; a man almost as old as he, once more starting to encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye to a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him, poor old Bildad lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides; ran down into the cabin to speak another farewell word there; again came on deck, and looked to windward; looked towards the wide and endless waters, only bounded by the far-off unseen Eastern Continents; looked towards the land; looked aloft; looked right and left; looked everywhere and nowhere; and at last, mechanically coiling a rope upon its pin, convulsively grasped stout Peleg by the hand, and holding up a lantern, for a moment stood gazing heroically in his face, as much as to say, "Nevertheless, friend Peleg, I can stand it; yes, I can."
-- It would be a hopeless, endless task to catalogue all these things.
-- It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The more I think of it,' said the doctor, 'the more I see that it will occasion endless trouble and difficulty if we put these men in possession of the boy's real story.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, perceiving in Elizabeth no inclination of reply-ing, she added, 'Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The immediate advantage to herself was by no means inconsiderable, for it supplied her with endless jokes against them both.
-- The selfish sagacity of the latter, which had at first drawn Robert into the scrape, was the principal instrument of his deliverance from it; for her respectful humility, assiduous attentions, and endless flatteries, as soon as the smallest opening was given for their exercise, reconciled Mrs. Ferrars to his choice, and re-established him completely in her favour.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here come the moths, in endless procession, to bask in the light of the flame.
-- Its endless buildings look grey, its sky and its streets assume a sombre hue; the scattered, leafless trees and wind-blown dust and paper but add to the general solemnity of colour.
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