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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- New arrivals claimed my host's attention, and I was left to myself.
-- Each one talked to his neighbour; to his neighbour on the right during the soup, fish, and entree; to his neighbour on the left during the roast, sweet, and savoury.
-- "I tell you I know nothing," she said, in reply to my agitated questions, and then, with an airy shrug of the shoulders: "I believe that a young person in a city tea-shop has left her situation."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea; such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest.
-- But the car had contained five passengers, with a dog, and the balloon only left four on the shore.
-- When Neb heard that his master had been made prisoner, he left Massachusetts without hesitating an instant, arrived before Richmond, and by dint of stratagem and shrewdness, after having risked his life twenty times over, managed to penetrate into the besieged town.
-- "By that lazy balloon which is left there doing nothing, and which looks to me as if it was waiting on purpose for us " There was no necessity for the sailor to finish his sentence.
-- At half-past nine, Harding and his companions glided from different directions into the square, which the gas-lamps, extinguished by the wind, had left in total obscurity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child opened the door (now guarded by a shutter which I had heard the boy put up before he left the house) and with another farewell whose clear and tender note I have recalled a thousand times, held it until we had passed out.
-- I remained standing on the spot where he had left me, unwilling to depart, and yet unknowing why I should loiter there.
-- But that reminds me I have left her all alone, and she will be anxious and know not a moment's peace till I return.
-- As he renewed his entreaties on our being left alone, and adverted with many thanks to the former occasion of our being together, I willingly yielded to his persuasions, and sat down, pretending to examine some curious miniatures and a few old medals which he placed before me.
-- She rose, and hurrying away, stopped, turned back, and put her arms about the old man's neck, then left him and hurried away again but faster this time, to hide her falling tears.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun was shedding its light; the grass, revivified, was blooming forth, where it was left uncut, not only on the greenswards of the boulevard, but between the flag-stones, and the birches, poplars and wild- berry trees were unfolding their viscous leaves; the limes were unfolding their buds; the daws, sparrows and pigeons were joyfully making their customary nests, and the flies were buzzing on the sun-warmed walls.
-- She said some rude things to the ladies, of which she afterward repented, and left them.
-- When she left her she had but six rubles left.
-- The clerk, who had promised to marry her, without saying anything, left for Nijhni, evidently casting her off, and Maslova remained alone.
-- With the frankness and boldness of youth, he not only then spoke of the injustice of private ownership of land; not only did he compose theses in the university on the subject, but he actually distributed among the peasants the few hundred acres of land left him by his father, not desiring to own land contrary to his convictions.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so.
-- The Time Machine was left deserted on the turf among the rhododendrons.
-- The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley, but the Thames had shifted, perhaps, a mile from its present position.
-- There were no large buildings towards the top of the hill, and as my walking powers were evidently miraculous, I was presently left alone for the first time.
-- To adorn themselves with flowers, to dance, to sing in the sunlight: so much was left of the artistic spirit, and no more.
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：
-- The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind.
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