end是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 末端， 端， 梢； 目标， 目的v. 终止， 结束，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：
-- As far as could be learnt it appeared that the poor young dog, still under the impression that since he was kept for running after sheep, the more he ran after them the better, had at the end of his meal off the dead lamb, which may have given him additional energy and spirits, collected all the ewes into a corner, driven the timid creatures through the hedge, across the upper field, and by main force of worrying had given them momentum enough to break down a portion of the rotten railing, and so hurled them over the edge.
-- At one end of the street stood from two to three hundred blithe and hearty labourers waiting upon Chance all men of the stamp to whom labour suggests nothing worse than a wrestle with gravitation, and pleasure nothing better than a renunciation of the same.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is still standing in the lower end of the Rue Nueve- Sainte-Genevieve, just where the road slopes so sharply down to the Rue de l'Arbalete, that wheeled traffic seldom passes that way, because it is so stony and steep.
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
-- A straight path beneath the walls on either side of the garden leads to a clump of lime-trees at the further end of it; _line_-trees, as Mme.
-- Dramas brought to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and against a background of painted canvas, but dumb dramas of life, frost-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors' lives.
-- Both these ladies, moreover, would be very well to do when the people at the War Office had come to an end of their formalities.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.
-- Yet he might not have been so perfectly humane, so thoughtful in his generosity, so full of kindness and tender-ness amidst his passion for adventurous exploit, had she not unfolded to him the real loveliness of beneficence and made the doing good the end and aim of his soaring ambition.
-- A mind of moderate capacity which closely pur-sues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, im-proved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instru-ments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
-- 52 Frankenstein I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will eas-ily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject.
-- Here I paused, I knew not why; but I remained some min-utes with my eyes fixed on a coach that was coming towards me from the other end of the street.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Until matters weresettled, everyone referred to the organization as the Troop and, despite the high-sounding name finally adopted, theywere known to the end of their usefulness simply as "The Troop."
-- Soon she was at the end of the driveway and out on the main road, but she didnot stop until she had rounded a curve that put a large clump of trees between her and the house.
-- He was as proficient as any of the other young men in the usual County diversions, hunting,gambling, dancing and politics, and was the best rider of them all; but he differed from all the rest in that thesepleasant activities were not the end and aim of life to him.
-- She was as forthright and simple as the windsthat blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound about it, and to the end of her days she would never be able tounderstand a complexity.
-- The red colorof her skin, narrow high forehead, prominent cheek bones, and the hawk-bridged nose which flattened at the end abovethick negro lips, all showed the mixture of two races.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At other times, I thought, What if the young man who was with so much difficulty restrained from imbruing his hands in me should yield to a constitutional impatience, or should mistake the time, and should think himself accredited to my heart and liver to-night, instead of to-morrow!If ever anybody's hair stood on end with terror, mine must have done so then.
-- I played the game to an end with Estella, and she beggared me.
-- Behind the furthest end of the brewery, was a rank garden with an old wall; not so high but that I could struggle up and hold on long enough to look over it, and see that the rank garden was the garden of the house, and that it was overgrown with tangled weeds, but that there was a track upon the green and yellow paths, as if some one sometimes walked there, and that Estella was walking away from me even then.
-- For when I yielded to the temptation presented by the casks, and began to walk on them, I saw her walking on them at the end of the yard of casks.
-- This mental exercise lasted until Biddy made a rush at them and distributed three defaced Bibles (shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump end of something), more illegibly printed at the best than any curiosities of literature I have since met with, speckled all over with ironmould, and having various specimens of the insect world smashed between their leaves.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His master therefore was tired of keeping him and began to think of putting an end to him; but the ass, who saw that some mischief was in the wind, took himself slyly off, and began his journey towards the great city, 'For there,' thought he, 'I may turn musician.'
-- At last, as they drew near the end of their journey, this treacherous servant threatened to kill her mistress if she ever told anyone what had happened.
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