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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bit the end savagely before Kemp could find a knife, and cursed when the outer leaf loosened.
-- I found myself in my bedstead storeroom again, and at the end of a wilderness of wardrobes.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If he comes this end of the ship again I'll cut his insides out, I tell you.
-- No sooner was that done than he opened the door of it, and tilting the thing on one end turned its living contents out on the ground.
-- It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animals which had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the house were destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of some-thing familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts.
-- Looking in the direction in which they faced, I saw coming through the haze under the trees beyond the end of the pas-sage of dens the dark figure and awful white face of Moreau.
-- Few of them were conspicuously hairy, at least until the end of my time upon the island.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily.
-- 'Good!Now, I have seen men thrust a dry branch into that stuff, and presently the Red Flower blossomed at the end of it.
-- Therefore, I ask, who comes to make an end of the Lone Wolf?
-- The fire was burning furiously at the end of the branch, and Mowgli struck right and left round the circle, and the wolves ran howling with the sparks burning their fur.
-- I am more likely to give help than to ask it' Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it 'still I should like to know.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Even so,' returned the stranger, nothing daunted by this cold reception; 'I have tarried at 'Edward' a week, and I should be dumb not to have inquired the road I was to jour-ney; and if dumb there would be an end to my calling.'
-- The former was seated on the end of a mossy log, in a posture that permitted him to heighten the effect of his earnest language, by the calm but expressive gestures of an Indian engaged in debate.
-- 'The thief is leaning against the foot of the sugar sapling, that you can see over them bushes; his right leg is in a line with the bark of the tree, and,' tapping his rifle, 'I can take him from where I stand, between the angle and the knee, with a single shot, putting an end to his tramping through the woods, for at least a month to come.
-- The scout directed Heyward and his disconsolate fellow travelers to seat them-selves in the forward end of the canoe, and took possession of the other himself, as erect and steady as if he floated in a vessel of much firmer materials.
-- He approached the further end of the cavern, to an out-let, which, like the others, was concealed by blankets; and removing the thick screen, breathed the fresh and reviving air from the cataract.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at the foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it.
-- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phan-toms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambula-tions, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman.
-- Thus, while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza, honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other, watching the achievements of a little wooden warrior, who, armed with a sword in each hand, was most valiantly fighting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn.
-- When the dance was at an end, Ichabod was attracted to a knot of the sager folks, who, with Old V an Tassel, sat smoking at one end of the piazza, gossiping over former times, and drawing out long stories about the war.
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：
-- Perhaps he did not talk very much, and I fancied there was towards the end a look of fatigue in the faces of the women on either side of him.
-- Strickland shut the door behind her, and, moving to the other end of the table, took his place between the K.C.
-- They'd taken a house for six weeks, and at the end of her tenancy she wrote to tell him on which day she was arriving in London.
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