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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had served, at first, in one of the civil departments, had then attended to matters connected with the local government of provincial towns, and had of late been a corresponding member of several important scientific so-cieties.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up, then, and late though it be, save the sons of the Achaeans who faint before the fury of the Trojans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was late in the afternoon, and they were in the little beer-shop of Iping Hanger.
-- There were a number of skirmishes with Mrs. Hall on matters of domestic discipline, but in every case until late April, when the first signs of penury began, he over-rode her by the easy expedient of an extra payment.
-- It was late at night in the daytime one was bothered with the gaping, silly students and I worked then sometimes till dawn.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember how my head swayed with the seas, and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down; but I also remember as distinctly that I had a persuasion that I was dead, and that I thought what a jest it was that they should come too late by such a little to catch me in my body.
-- I stepped out of the door into the slumberous heat of the late afternoon, and walking past the main entrance locked again, I noticed turned the corner of the wall The crying sounded even louder out of doors.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The monkeys dragged him into the Cold Lairs late in the afternoon, and instead of going to sleep, as Mowgli would have done after a long journey, they joined hands and danced about and sang their foolish songs.
-- Their wives never came to the island until late in May or early in June, for they did not care to be torn to pieces; and the young two-, three-, and four-year-old seals who had not begun housekeeping went inland about half a mile through the ranks of the fighters and played about on the sand dunes in droves and legions, and rubbed off every single green thing that grew.
-- Late in October the seals began to leave St. Paul's for the deep sea, by families and tribes, and there was no more fighting over the nurseries, and the holluschickie played anywhere they liked.
-- Rikki-tikki curled himself up in the grass and slept where he was slept and slept till it was late in the after-noon, for he had done a hard day's work.
-- When Rikki got to the house, Teddy and Teddy's mother (she looked very white still, for she had been fainting) and Teddy's father came out and almost cried over him; and that night he ate all that was given him till he could eat no more, and went to bed on Teddy's shoulder, where Teddy's mother saw him when she came to look late at night.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every effort, however, to detect the least evidence of the approach of their hidden enemies was as fruitless as the inquiry after his late companions.
-- causing the opposite woods to re-echo with a name which, Heyward well remem-bered, had been given by his enemies to a celebrated hunter and scout of the English camp, and who, he now learned for the first time, had been his late companion.
-- Duncan, who perceived by the use of these Canadian appellations, that his late companions were much better known to his enemies than to himself, answered, reluctant-ly: 'He also is gone down with the water.'
-- 'Had we gone to the bend in the river, we might have been in time to rake the leaves over your bodies, but too late to have saved your scalps,' coolly answered the scout.
-- 'Yes,' said Hawkeye, rousing himself again; 'tis as you say, too late to harbor further thoughts about it.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Found among the papers of the late Diedrech Knickerbock-er.
-- All was now bustle and hubbub in the late quiet school-room.
-- Some of the damsels mounted on pillions be-hind their favorite swains, and their light-hearted laughter, mingling with the clatter of hoofs, echoed along the silent woodlands, sounding fainter and fainter, until they grad-ually died away, and the late scene of noise and frolic was all silent and deserted.
-- The bridge became more than ever an object of superstitious awe; and that may be the reason why the road has been altered of late years, so as to approach the church by the border of the mill-pond.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, as it was growing late and we were both exhausted by so much emotion, I left her.
-- "Yes; but all this time he may be dying, and when we get there it may be too late to do anything."
-- It could now be only the question of a day or two; and when, late one evening, Stroeve came to see me I knew it was to tell me she was dead.
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