left是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 左面， 左方a. 左边的， 左面的； 在左方的，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel then remembered that he had left the two dogs on the hill eating a dead lamb (a kind of meat he usually kept from them, except when other food ran short), and concluding that the young one had not finished his meal, he went indoors to the luxury of a bed, which latterly he had only enjoyed on Sundays.
-- There were the fifty with their lambs, enclosed at the other end as he had left them, but the rest, forming the bulk of the flock, were nowhere.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In short, there is no illusory grace left to the poverty that reigns here; it is dire, parsimonious, concentrated, threadbare poverty; as yet it has not sunk into the mire, it is only splashed by it, and though not in rags as yet, its clothing is ready to drop to pieces.
-- He had treated her badly, had left her nothing but her eyes to cry over his cruelty, the house she lived in, and the privilege of pitying nobody, because, so she was wont to say, she herself had been through every possible misfortune.
-- She said that she had nursed an old gentleman, ill of catarrh of the bladder, and left to die by his children, who thought that he had nothing left.
-- They were in something the same position as an elderly couple who have nothing left to say to each other.
-- There was not one of them but would have passed a blind man begging in the street, not one that felt moved to pity by a tale of misfortune, not one who did not see in death the solution of the all-absorbing problem of misery which left them cold to the most terrible anguish in others.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
-- They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names and ar-range in connected classifications the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light.
-- 'You may easily believe,' said he, 'how great was the difficulty to persuade my father that all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of bookkeeping; and, indeed, I believe I left him incred-ulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied entreaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in *The Vicar of Wakefield*: 'I have ten thousand florins ayear without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.'
-- 'It gives me the greatest delight to see you; but tell me how you left my father, brothers, and Elizabeth.'
-- I then reflected, and the thought made me shiv-er, that the creature whom I had left in my apartment might still be there, alive and walking about.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tom and us left home early this morning beforeshe got up, and Tom's laying out over at the Fontaines' while we came over here."
-- and left Boyd to handle her."
-- "That's why we left him at home to explain things to her.
-- "I kept thinking she would," yelled Stuart "Why do you suppose ..." CHAPTER II WHEN THE TWINS left Scarlett standing on the porch of Tara and the last sound of flying hooves had diedaway, she went back to her chair like a sleepwalker.
-- His was as Irish a face as could be found in the length andbreadth of the homeland he had left so long ago round, high colored, short nosed, wide mouthed and belligerent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First, with her left hand she jammed the loaf hard and fast against her bib,--where it sometimes got a pin into it, and sometimes a needle, which we afterwards got into our mouths.
-- I was soon at the Battery after that, and there was the right man,--hugging himself and limping to and fro, as if he had never all night left off hugging and limping,--waiting for me.
-- He did not turn me upside down this time to get at what I had, but left me right side upwards while I opened the bundle and emptied my pockets.
-- He was already handing mincemeat down his throat in the most curious manner,--more like a man who was putting it away somewhere in a violent hurry, than a man who was eating it,--but he left off to take some of the liquor.
-- exclaimed the man, striking his left cheek mercilessly, with the flat of his hand.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should be very silly,' said he, 'if I went to that shabby house, and left this charming place'; so he went into the smart house, and ate and drank at his ease, and forgot the bird, and his country too.
-- He rode on with the princess, till at last he came to the village where he had left his two brothers.
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