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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said I, "what sort of a chap is he does he always keep such late hours?"
-- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY, Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, August 3d, 1833.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER IX CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS It was late next morning when Oliver awoke, from a sound, long sleep.
-- It was too late to do it now, however; so he shook his head gravely, and, pocketing the five guineas, withdrew.
-- growled Sikes, as Oliver started up; 'half-past five!Look sharp, or you'll get no breakfast; for it's late as it is.'
-- Toby acquiesced; and they hurried through the main street of the little town, which at that late hour was wholly deserted.
-- He was smoking his pipe here, late at night, when all of a sudden Chickweed roars out, "Here he is!Stop thief!Murder!"
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was still very poorly, and Eliz-abeth would not quit her at all, till late in the evening, when she had the comfort of seeing her sleep, and when it seemed to her rather right than pleasant that she should go down-stairs herself.
-- 'Dear Sir, 'The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness, and since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequent-ly wished to heal the breach; but for some time I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest it might seem disre-spectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be at vari-ance. 'There, Mrs.
-- His father, Miss Bennet, the late Mr. Darcy, was one of the best men that ever breathed, and the truest friend I ever had; and I can never be in company with this Mr. Darcy without be-ing grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections.
-- 'Yes the late Mr. Darcy bequeathed me the next presen- tation of the best living in his gift.
-- Had the late Mr. Darcy liked me less, his son might have borne with me better; but his father's uncommon attachment to me ir-ritated him, I believe, very early in life.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- - Very hot still: but I went abroad early and late with my gun, and lay still in the middle of the day.
-- - In the morning, looking towards the sea side, the tide being low, I saw something lie on the shore bigger than ordinary, and it looked like a cask; when I came to it, I found a small barrel, and two or three pieces of the wreck of the ship, which were driven on shore by the late hurricane; and looking towards the wreck itself, I thought it seemed to lie higher out of the water than it used to do.
-- But it is never too late to be wise; and I cannot but advise all considering men, whose lives are attended with such extraordinary incidents as mine, or even though not so extraordinary, not to slight such secret intimations of Providence, let them come from what invisible intelligence they will.
-- I am now to be supposed retired into my castle, after my late voyage to the wreck, my frigate laid up and secured un-der water, as usual, and my condition restored to what it was before: I had more wealth, indeed, than I had before, but was not at all the richer; for I had no more use for it than the Indians of Peru had before the Spaniards came there.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.
-- He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters.
-- Though her late conversation with her daughter-in-law had made her resolve on remaining at Norland no longer than was unavoidable, it had not produced the smallest effect on her in that point to which it principally tended.
-- "As for the house itself, to be sure," said she, "it is too small for our family, but we will make ourselves tolerably comfortable for the present, as it is too late in the year for improvements.
-- It was late in the morning before they returned home; and no sooner had they entered the house than Marianne flew eagerly up stairs, and when Elinor followed, she found her turning from the table with a sorrowful countenance, which declared that no Willoughby had been there.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But of late he had pleaded office duty on several occasions when his wife asked for his company to any evening entertainment.
-- "I wish you wouldn't be so late coming down to breakfast," she said, addressing Jessica, while making for her crochet basket.
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