late是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 迟的， 晚的， 晚期的； 已故的ad. 迟， 晚，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I wish,' Scrooge muttered, putting his hand in his pocket, and looking about him, after drying his eyes with his cuff: 36 Sons and Lovers'but it's too late now.'
-- And Martha warn't as late last Christmas Day by half-an-hour.'
-- 'Why, bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A tale of two citiesII The Mail t was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in INovember, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.
-- 'Not of late years.
-- He still had his wig and gown on, and he said, squar-ing himself at his late client to that degree that he squeezed the innocent Mr. Lorry clean out of the group: 'I am glad to have brought you off with honour, Mr. Darnay.
-- 'You have laid me under an obligation to you for life in two senses,' said his late client, taking his hand.
-- The more business he got, the greater his power seemed to grow of getting at its pith and marrow; and however late at night he sat carousing with Sydney Carton, he always had his points at his fingers' ends in the morning.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They asked for the most delicate silk and the purest gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks; and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms until late at night.
-- 'That is probably a wax-work show,' thought he; 'and the people delay taking down their sign in hopes of a late visi-tor or two.'
-- To reach up to the bell was what he did not like; to cry aloud for help would have availed him little; besides, how ashamed would he have been to be found caught in a trap, like an outwitted fox!How was he to twist himself through!He saw clearly that it was his irrevocable destiny to remain a prisoner till dawn, or, perhaps, even late in the morning; then the smith must be fetched to file away the bars; but all that would not be done so quickly as he could think about it.
-- At last she could run no longer; she sat down on a large stone, and when she looked about her, she saw that the summer had passed; it was late in the autumn, but that one could not remark in the beau-tiful garden, where there was always sunshine, and where there were flowers the whole year round.
-- The door op-posite was also opened late in the evening, but it was dark within, at least in the front room; further in there was heard the sound of music.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he had never connected these scientific deductions as to the origin of man as an animal, as to reflex action, biology, and sociology, with those questions as to the meaning of life and death to himself, which had of late been more and more often in his mind.
-- She saw that of late years much was changed in the manners of society, that a mother's duties had become still more difficult.
-- Besides the charm Oblonsky had in general for everyone, Vronsky had felt of late specially drawn to him by the fact that in his imagination he was associated with Kitty.
-- As he always did in Petersburg, he left home not meaning to return till late at night.
-- "'It's never too late to mend.'"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He never changed countenance for an instant, though a delay of twenty hours, by making him too late for the Yokohama boat, would almost inevitably cause the loss of the wager.
-- The steamer which crossed the Pacific from Yokohama to San Francisco made a direct connection with that from Hong Kong, and it could not sail until the latter reached Yokohama; and if Mr. Fogg was twenty-four hours late on reaching Yokohama, this time would no doubt be easily regained in the voyage of twenty-two days across the Pacific.
-- Late in the day they passed through the capricious channels of Hong Kong, and the Tankadere, impelled by favourable winds, conducted herself admirably.
-- Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and Fix found themselves between two fires; it was too late to escape.
-- Mr. Fogg asked him if it was not too late to notify the Reverend Samuel Wilson, of Marylebone parish, that evening.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This autumn the Digams elected Ira Hinkley, because they had been gaining a reputation for dissipation--girls were said to have been smuggled in late at night--and no company which included the Reverend Mr. Hinkley could possibly be taken by the Dean as immoral, which was an advantage if they were to continue comfortably immoral.
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