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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After six months in Nebraska, I arrived in New York towards the end of March, laden with a precious collection.
-- Three seconds after reading the letter of the honourable Secretary of Marine, I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster and purge it from the world.
-- The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
-- "It is the end of the end!"
-- One of the Nautilus men gave me a simple gun, the butt end of which, made of steel, hollow in the centre, was rather large.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "More likely to be the end of experience."
-- Women, their arms folded over their coarse aprons, standing gossiping at the end of their block, stared after the Brangwen sisters with that long, unwearying stare of aborigines; children called out names.
-- At the far end of the table sat the mother, with her loosely-looped hair.
-- But the sky had come overdark, as the end of the afternoon approached: there was scarcely light to draw any more.
-- She was busy, the end of the day was here, the work went on as a peaceful tide that is at flood, hushed to retire.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
-- I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced, and filled up an interval of silence by attempting to caress the canine mother, who had left her nursery, and was sneaking wolfishly to the back of my legs, her lip curled up, and her white teeth watering for a snatch.
-- Go round by th' end o' t' laith, if ye went to spake to him.
-- They wouldn't let me go to the end of the garden wall.
-- He noticed this, and thrust at an inner door with the end of his spade, intimating by an inarticulate sound that there was the place where I must go, if I changed my locality.
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：
-- I know I should have to get through the Looking-glass again back into the old room and there'd be an end of all my adventures!'
-- 'At the end of two yards,' she said, putting in a peg to mark the distance, 'I shall give you your directions have another biscuit?'
-- 'At the end of three yards I shall repeat them for fear of your forgetting them.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, no, no, no; and an end of it!"
-- Probably I should have told the whole story to the doctor, for I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.
-- This was certainly the end for both of us, I thought.
-- The servant led us down a matted passage and showed us at the end into a great library, all lined with bookcases and busts upon the top of them, where the squire and Dr. Livesey sat, pipe in hand, on either side of a bright fire.
-- There was a date at one end of the line and at the other a sum of money, as in common account-books, but instead of explanatory writing, only a varying number of crosses between the two.
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