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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown study.
-- He said no more, but slowly waving a benediction, covered his face with his hands, and so remained kneeling, till all the people had departed, and he was left alone in the place.
-- Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found Queequeg there quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some time.
-- If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagan's breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and left us cronies.
-- But the directions he had given us about keeping a yellow warehouse on our starboard hand till we opened a white church to the larboard, and then keeping that on the larboard hand till we made a corner three points to the starboard, and that done, then ask the first man we met where the place was: these crooked directions of his very much puzzled us at first, especially as, at the outset, Queequeg insisted that the yellow warehouse our first point of departure must be left on the larboard hand, whereas I had understood Peter Coffin to say it was on the starboard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The surgeon leaned over the body, and raised the left hand.
-- If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder.
-- interposed Mrs. Mann, inflaming her left eye with the corner of her apron.
-- Although Oliver did as he was desired, at once; and passed the back of his unoccupied hand briskly across his eyes, he left a tear in them when he looked up at his conductor.
-- GOING TO A FUNERAL FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE FORMS AN UNFAVOURABLE NOTION OF HIS MASTER'S BUSINESS Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker's shop, set the lamp down on a workman's bench, and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread, which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you choose,' said Mr. Bennet; and, as he spoke, he left the room, fatigued with the raptures of his wife.
-- Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and had left her four thousand pounds.
-- She was not equal, however, to much conversation, and when Miss Bingley left them together, could attempt little besides expressions of gratitude for the extraordinary kindness she was treated with.
-- 'I am astonished,' said Miss Bingley, 'that my father should have left so small a collection of books.
-- As all conversation was thereby at an end, Elizabeth soon afterwards left the room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Creeping away to the left here, Nice.
-- 'Monsieur Barronneau left a widow.
-- Still, in his captivity, like a lower animal like some impatient ape, or roused bear of the smaller species the prisoner, now left solitary, had jumped upon the ledge, to lose no glimpse of this departure.
-- 'One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind; I dare say a prisoner begins to relent towards his prison, after he is let out.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She likes it, and it won't cost much, so I'll have some left to buy my pencils,' added Amy.
-- Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left inn sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.
-- No one came to talk to her, and one by one the group dwindled away till she was left alone.
-- I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died.
-- What it was, she had no idea as yet, but left it for time to tell her, and meanwhile, found her greatest affliction in the fact that she couldn't read, run, and ride as much as she liked.
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