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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her excuse for not coming sooner, was, that her husband dying late in the morning, she was a good while consulting her servants about a convenient place where his body should be laid; and I observed, she behaved herself at our house as cheerfully as the rest.
-- The ship came within half a league of this creek, and sent her long boat with vessels to take in fresh water (for the place, it seems, was very well known); but I did not ob-serve it, till the boat was almost on shore; and it was too late to seek another hiding-place.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The late Mr. Sparsit, being by the mother's side a Powler, married this lady, being by the father's side a Scadgers.
-- I have explained to Miss Louisa this is Miss Louisa the miserable but natural end of your late career; and you are to expressly understand that the whole of that subject is past, and is not to be referred to any more.
-- However, it's too late to say that.'
-- But, he's late this year, and I have not seen him.
-- (He did not go so far as to say, for her pleasure, that there was a sort of Divine Right there; but, I have heard claims almost as magnificent of late years.)
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- remarked my uncle as we sat down to a late breakfast; "refresh yourself, my boy, and we will take a run through the town."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I won't be late any more,' she said to herself; 'it's too annoying.'
-- 'So!There tha'rt bare again, nowt but a bare-arsed lass an' a bit of a Lady Jane!Now put thy shimmy on, for tha mun go, or else Lady Chatterley's goin' to be late for dinner, an' where 'ave yer been to my pretty maid!'
-- A little later the Guthries, the prince, the countess, Sir Alexander, and sometimes Mr Lind, the chaplain, would go off to the Lido, where they would bathe; coming home to a late lunch at half past one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such was the insane act of her late husband.
-- The collegians, assembled in Symposium in the Snuggery that night, marvelled what had happened to their Father; he walked so late in the shadows of the yard, and seemed so downcast.
-- Or rather, she left about half of herself at eighteen years of age behind, and grafted the rest on to the relict of the late Mr F.; thus making a moral mermaid of herself, which her once boy-lover contemplated with feelings wherein his sense of the sorrowful and his sense of the comical were curiously blended.
-- With the sensation of becoming more and more light-headed every minute, Clennam saw the relict of the late Mr F. enjoying herself in the most wonderful manner, by putting herself and him in their old places, and going through all the old performances now, when the stage was dusty, when the scenery was faded, when the youthful actors were dead, when the orchestra was empty, when the lights were out.
-- Meanwhile Flora was murmuring in rapid snatches for his ear, that there was a time and that the past was a yawning gulf however and that a golden chain no longer bound him and that she revered the memory of the late Mr F. and that she should be at home to-morrow at half-past one and that the decrees of Fate were beyond recall and that she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray's-Inn Gardens at exactly four o'clock in the afternoon.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. March was very busy trying to finish a letter, which must go at once, and Hannah had the grumps, for being up late didn't suit her.
-- Next day Amy was rather late at school, but could not resist the temptation of displaying, with pardonable pride, a moist brown-paper parcel, before she consigned it to the inmost recesses of her desk.
-- Meg, Beth, and Amy were sitting together, late in the afternoon, when Jo burst into the room, looking excited and demanding breathlessly, 'Has anyone taken my book?'
-- didn't use so much soap on his hands, he wouldn't always be late at breakfast.
-- So it was an unusually lively meeting, and did not adjourn till a late hour, when it broke up with three shrill cheers for the new member.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School.)
-- Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original the Tyre of this Carthage; the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.
-- But it's too late to make any improvements now.
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