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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon that I told him some of my story; at the end of which he burst out into a strange kind of passion: 'What had I done,' says he, 'that such an unhappy wretch should come into my ship?
-- But here I had like to have suffered a second shipwreck, which, if I had, I think verily would have broken my heart; for, knowing nothing of the coast, my raft ran aground at one end of it upon a shoal, and not being aground at the oth-er end, it wanted but a little that all my cargo had slipped off towards the end that was afloat, and to fallen into the water.
-- But here I had like to have dipped all my cargo into the sea again; for that shore lying pretty steep - that is to say sloping - there was no place to land, but where one end of my float, if it ran on shore, would lie so high, and the other sink lower, as before, that it would endanger my cargo again.
-- When I had done this, I blocked up the door of the tent with some boards within, and an empty chest set up on end without; and spreading one of the beds upon the ground, laying my two pistols just at my head, and my gun at length by me, I went to bed for the first time, and slept very qui-etly all night, for I was very weary and heavy; for the night before I had slept little, and had laboured very hard all day to fetch all those things from the ship, and to get them on shore.
-- This plain was not above a hun-dred yards broad, and about twice as long, and lay like a green before my door; and, at the end of it, descended irreg-ularly every way down into the low ground by the seaside.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I believe you are right, my love; it will be better that there should be no annuity in the case; whatever I may give them occasionally will be of far greater assistance than a yearly allowance, because they would only enlarge their style of living if they felt sure of a larger income, and would not be sixpence the richer for it at the end of the year.
-- But as they drew towards the end of it, their interest in the appearance of a country which they were to inhabit overcame their dejection, and a view of Barton Valley as they entered it gave them cheerfulness.
-- His kindness was not confined to words; for within an hour after he left them, a large basket full of garden stuff and fruit arrived from the park, which was followed before the end of the day by a present of game.
-- Lady Middleton seemed to be roused to enjoyment only by the entrance of her four noisy children after dinner, who pulled her about, tore her clothes, and put an end to every kind of discourse except what related to themselves.
-- Sir John was loud in his admiration at the end of every song, and as loud in his conversation with the others while every song lasted.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What they dealt in, how they laboured, to what end it all came, she had only the vaguest conception.
-- When she was wondering whether the strain would ever cease, a dull- sounding bell clanged somewhere down an elevator shaft, and the end came.
-- They were upon some board or ground or something that reached far out, and at the end of this was Carrie.
-- By the end of the third act she was sure that Drouet was only a kindly soul, but otherwise defective.
-- They rode first through Lincoln Park and on far out towards Evanston, turning back at four and arriving at the north end of the Shore Drive at about five o'clock.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter II E went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back Wtowards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.
-- Why, there ain't no end to your airs they say you're rich.
-- There was an old horse-blanket nailed against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the ta-ble, to keep the wind from blowing through the chinks and putting the candle out.
-- Well, it was a good long job, but I was getting towards the end of it when I heard pap's gun in the woods.
-- But it warn't good judgment, because that was the boot that had a couple of his toes leaking out of the front end of it; so now he raised a howl that fairly made a body's hair raise, and down he went in the dirt, and rolled there, and held his toes; and the cussing he done then laid over anything he had ever done previous.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Let me tell you, for your own good, Pinocchio," said the Talking Cricket in his calm voice, "that those who follow that trade always end up in the hospital or in prison."
-- Not wishing to end his days as a roasted Marionette, he jumped quickly to the ground and off he went, the Assassins close to him, as before.
-- The other end of the chain was nailed to the wall.
-- "My dear boy," said the Fairy, "people who speak as you do usually end their days either in a prison or in a hospital.
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