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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he dressed himself as a poor man, and came secretly to the king's court, and was scarcely within the doors when the horse began to eat, and the bird to sing, and princess left off weeping.
-- 34 Grimms' Fairy Tales It happened that, on the very day she was fifteen years old, the king and queen were not at home, and she was left alone in the palace.
-- Even the fire on the hearth left off blazing, and went to sleep; the jack stopped, and the spit that was turning about with a goose upon it for the king's dinner stood still; and the cook, who was at that moment pulling the kitchen-boy by the hair to give him a box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep; the butler, who was slyly tasting the ale, fell asleep with the jug at his lips: and thus everything stood still, and slept soundly.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the fol-lowing papers in my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I should think fit.
-- When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father: where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
-- What became of my companions in the boat, as well as of those who escaped on the rock, or were left in the vessel, I cannot tell; but conclude they were all lost.
-- I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep.
-- In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advanc-ing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My mother left me to my grandmother,' said Bounderby; 'and, according to the best of my remembrance, my grandmother was the wickedest and the worst old woman that ever lived.
-- The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact.
-- Being left to saunter in the hall a minute or two while Mr. Gradgrind went up-stairs for the address, he opened the door of the children's study and looked into that serene floor-clothed apartment, which, notwithstanding its book-cases and its cabinets and its variety of learned and philosophical appliances, had much of the genial aspect of a room devoted to hair-cutting.
-- She will never believe it of him, but he has cut away and left her.'
-- Still, if her father really has left her, without any connivance on her part Bounderby, let me have a word with you.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Nothing if you read from left to right, but mark, if from right to left--" "Backwards!"
-- At seven in the morning we left Korsor, a little town on the western side of Seeland.
-- Professor Hardwigg was in haste to leave his prison, or rather as he called it, his hospital; but before he attempted to do so, he caught hold of my hand, led me to the quarterdeck of the schooner, took my arm with his left hand, and pointed inland with his right, over the northern part of the bay, to where rose a high two-peaked mountain--a double cone covered with eternal snow.
-- When he wanted to say No he moved his head from left to right; when he acquiesced he nodded, so slightly that you could scarcely see the undulation of his head.
-- One thing I can say, my uncle never left off speaking.
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：
-- Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.
-- It had nothing to do with Sir Malcolm, who left his nervously hostile, high-spirited wife to rule her own roost, while he went his own way.
-- With the stoicism of the young she took in the utter, soulless ugliness of the coal-and-iron Midlands at a glance, and left it at what it was: unbelievable and not to be thought about.
-- Clifford left them alone, and she learnt to do the same: she just went by without looking at them, and they stared as if she were a walking wax figure.
-- So she left it alone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one of its chambers, so repulsive a place that even the obtrusive stare blinked at it, and left it to such refuse of reflected light as it could find for itself, were two men.
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