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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
-- he said, as we approached the end of our silent meal.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This done, Pencroft, passing among the grass and concealing himself skillfully, placed the end of his lines armed with hooks near the grouse nests; then he returned, took the other ends and hid with Herbert behind a large tree.
-- Between the river's mouth and the end of the cliff, eddies of wind whirled and gusts from this maelstrom lashed the water which ran through the narrow valley.
-- At eight o'clock Neb had not appeared, but there was no doubt that the frightful weather alone hindered his return, and that he must have taken refuge in some cave, to await the end of the storm or at least the return of day.
-- Harding was laid on it, and Pencroft, having taken his place at one end and Neb at the other, they started towards the coast.
-- The fire was out; the drowned cinders were nothing but mud; the burnt linen, which was to have served as tinder, had disappeared!The sea had penetrated to the end of the passages, and everything was overthrown and destroyed in the interior of the Chimneys!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah!It's a weary life for an old man a weary, weary life but there is a great end to gain and that I keep before me.'
-- The breast of his coat was ornamented with an outside pocket from which there peeped forth the cleanest end of a very large and very ill-favoured handkerchief; his dirty wristbands were pulled on as far as possible and ostentatiously folded back over his cuffs; he displayed no gloves, and carried a yellow cane having at the top a bone hand with the semblance of a ring on its little finger and a black ball in its grasp.
-- I could form no comprehension of his character, unless he were one of those miserable wretches who, having made gain the sole end and object of their lives and having succeeded in amassing great riches, are constantly tortured by the dread of poverty, and beset by fears of loss and ruin.
-- The sun went down and the stars peeped out, the Tower turned from its own proper colours to grey and from grey to black, the room became perfectly dark and the end of the cigar a deep fiery red, but still Mr Quilp went on smoking and drinking in the same position, and staring listlessly out of window with the doglike smile always on his face, save when Mrs Quilp made some involuntary movement of restlessness or fatigue; and then it expanded into a grin of delight.
-- 'It's very plain that the old man and I will remain at daggers drawn to the end of our lives, and that I have nothing to expect from him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then obtained employment as servant in the house of the commissary of rural police, but was obliged to give up the position at the end of the third month, for the commissary, a fifty-year old man, pursued her with his attentions, and when, on one occasion, he became too persistent, she flared up, called him an old fool, and threw him to the ground.
-- He was, therefore, anxious to end his day's sitting before six o'clock, that he might meet the red-haired Clara Vasilievna.
-- The real reason of the postponement was that the prosecutor feared that their trial before an intelligent jury might end in their acquittal.
-- At one end was a platform, reached by three steps.
-- He arrived toward the end of March, on Good Friday, in the season of bad roads, when the rain was falling in torrents, and was wet all through, and chilled to the marrow of his bones, but courageous and excited, as he always felt at that time of the year.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives."
-- Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on the face, and their ears were singularly minute.
-- The stained-glass windows, which displayed only a geometrical pattern, were broken in many places, and the curtains that hung across the lower end were thick with dust.
-- It was evidently the derelict remains of some vast structure, to what end built I could not determine.
-- Even that would fade in the end into a contented inactivity.
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：
-- 'What would they do at the end of a year?
-- A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which came some way over his shoulder, and began writing for him.
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