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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a greater danger was at hand, and one that it was too late to prevent.
-- At this moment a hundred Maories were assembled in the "pah," old men, full grown men, youths; the former were calm, but gloomy, awaiting the orders of Kai-Koumou; the others gave themselves up to the most violent sorrow, bewailing their parents and friends who had fallen in the late engagements.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 1 Mr. Sherlock Holmes Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the Mmornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
-- 'On the night of Sir Charles's death Barrymore the butler, who made the discovery, sent Perkins the groom on horse-back to me, and as I was sitting up late I was able to reach Baskerville Hall within an hour of the event.
-- All afternoon and late into the evening he sat lost in tobacco and thought.
-- We are very rich in orchids on the moor, though, of course, you are rather late to see the beauties of the place.'
-- He is very rare and sel-dom found in the late autumn.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This youngest girl was absolutely a beauty, and had begun of late to attract considerable at-tention in society.
-- Like most men of the world, Totski had rather despised such a cheaply-bought conquest, but of late years he had begun to think differently about it.
-- Of late she had not so much as mentioned them.
-- She and the Epanchin girls had been acquainted in childhood, although of late they had met but rarely.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No letter had come, no word of any kind, and yet here it was late in the evening and she had agreed to meet him that morning.
-- It's too late now.
-- In the very beginning it was a delight to go home late at night, as he did, and find Carrie.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, 'Let up on me it ain't too late yet I'll paddle ashore at the first light and tell.'
-- It got to be very late and still, and then along comes a steamboat up the river.
-- The second son of the late duke seized the titles and estates the infant real duke was ignored.
-- 'Bilgewater, I am the late Dauphin!'
-- 'You!At your age!No!You mean you're the late Char-lemagne; you must be six or seven hun- dred years old, at the very least.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he reached the yard in front of the house, he flung him to the ground, put a foot on his neck, and said to him roughly: "It is late now and it's time for bed.
-- "I was just saying," whined the Marionette in a whisper, "that it seems too late for me to go to school now."
-- Remember it is never too late to learn."
-- He came to the village late at night.
-- "Who knocks at this late hour?"
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