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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought of her late in the evenings, and planned to telephone to her, and did not telephone.
-- After vacation, in late January, he found that whisky relieved him from the frenzy of work, from the terror of loneliness--then betrayed him and left him the more weary, the more lonely.
-- IV January thirtieth, the birthday of the late Dr. Warburton Stonedge, founder of the medical department of Winnemac, was annually celebrated by a banquet rich in fraternalism and speeches and large lack of wine.
-- Chapter 9 The persistent yammer of a motor horn drew Martin to the window of the laboratory, a late afternoon in February.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was crushed by poverty, but the anxieties of his position had of late ceased to weigh upon him.
-- Since she has attained years of maturity, she has read other books of romantic ten-dency and of late she had read with great interest a book she got through Mr. Lebeziatnikov, Lewes' Physiology do you know it? and even recounted extracts from it to us: and that's the whole of her education.
-- Chapter III e waked up late next day after a broken sleep.
-- And he began describing how spiteful and uncertain she was, how if you were only a day late with your interest the pledge was lost; how she gave a quarter of the value of an ar-ticle and took five and even seven percent a month on it and so on.
-- He started, roused himself, raised his head, looked out of the window, and seeing how late it was, suddenly jumped up wide awake as though someone had pulled him off the sofa.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I look up at the monumental tablets on the wall, and try tothink of Mr. Bodgers late of this parish, and what the feelings ofMrs. Bodgers must have been, when affliction sore, long time Mr.Bodgers bore, and physicians were in vain.
-- I did not quite understand what old one Mrs. Gummidge wassupposed to have fixed her mind upon, until Peggotty, on seeingme to bed, explained that it was the late Mr. Gummidge; and thather brother always took that for a received truth on such occasions,and that it always had a moving effect upon him.
-- From the moment of my knowing of the death of my mother, theidea of her as she had been of late had vanished from me.
-- On a Saturday night, which was my grandtreat,- partly because it was a great thing to walk home with six orseven shillings in my pocket, looking into the shops and thinkingwhat such a sum would buy, and partly because I went homeearly,- Mrs. Micawber would make the most heart-rendingconfidences to me; also on a Sunday morning, when I mixed theportion of tea or coffee I had bought overnight, in a little shaving-pot, and sat late at my breakfast.
-- My late experiences with Mr. and Mrs. Micawber suggested to methat here might be a means of keeping off the wolf for a little while.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had returned to a late dinner, after some days' absence, and now walked up to Hartfield to say that all were well in Brunswick Square.
-- When this was over, Mr. Woodhouse gratefully observed, 'It is very kind of you, Mr. Knightley, to come out at this late hour to call upon us.
-- He had not much in-tercourse with any families beyond that circle; his horror of late hours, and large dinner-parties, made him unfit for any acquaintance but such as would visit him on his own terms.
-- Emma's sense of right however had decided it; and besides the consider-ation of what was due to each brother, she had particular pleasure, from the circumstance of the late disagreement between Mr. Knightley and herself, in procuring him the proper invitation.
-- Emma, in good spirits too, from the amusement afforded her mind by the expectation of Mr. Frank Churchill, was willing to forget his late improprieties, and be as well satis-fied with him as before, and on his making Harriet his very first subject, was ready to listen with most friendly smiles.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you know how late they keep open the Buck's Head Inn?"
-- "Once he had been working late at Yalbury Bottom, and had had a drap of drink, and lost his way as he was coming home-along through Yalbury Wood, didn't ye, Master Poorgrass?"
-- "You used to bide as late as the latest."
-- In the room from which the conversation proceeded Bathsheba and her servant-companion, Liddy Smallbury, were to be discovered sitting upon the floor, and sorting a complication of papers, books, bottles, and rubbish spread out thereon remnants from the household stores of the late occupier.
-- His mother was a French governess, and it seems that a secret attachment existed between her and the late Lord Severn.
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