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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mrs. Nichols belonged to the well-defined class, of late become vocal, which is known as the lower-middle.
-- It was impossible to start at so late an hour, and so it was not till next day soon after dawn that he set out.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No vestiges of his handiwork showed that either at an early or at a late period had man lived there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have been rendered uneasy by what you said the other night, and can only plead that I have done all for the best that it is too late to retract, if I could (though I cannot) and that I hope to triumph yet.
-- Nor was this the only start Mr Swiveller had of the market-gardener, for determining to show the family what quality of man they trifled with, and influenced perhaps by his late libations, he performed such feats of agility and such spins and twirls as filled the company with astonishment, and in particular caused a very long gentleman who was dancing with a very short scholar, to stand quite transfixed by wonder and admiration.
-- Still, there was one late shop at no great distance which sent forth a ruddy glare upon the pavement even yet, and looked bright and companionable.
-- Late as the Dutch clock showed it to be, the poor woman was still hard at work at an ironing-table; a young child lay sleeping in a cradle near the fire; and another, a sturdy boy of two or three years old, very wide awake, with a very tight night-cap on his head, and a night-gown very much too small for him on his body, was sitting bolt upright in a clothes-basket, staring over the rim with his great round eyes, and looking as if he had thoroughly made up his mind never to go to sleep any more; which, as he had already declined to take his natural rest and had been brought out of bed in consequence, opened a cheerful prospect for his relations and friends.
-- She lived in such continual dread and apprehension of meeting one or other of them on the stairs or in the passages if she stirred from her grandfather's chamber, that she seldom left it, for a moment, until late at night, when the silence encouraged her to venture forth and breathe the purer air of some empty room.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maslova had for a long time been addicted to cigarette smoking, but of late she had been getting more and more accustomed to drink.
-- On seeing that painting, on which he had worked two years, and those drawings, he called to mind the feeling of impotence, which he experienced of late with greatest force, to make further advance in the art.
-- "Matvei Nikitich is late again," said the newcomer, with an air of displeasure.
-- In the interval between early and late mass Nekhludoff left the church.
-- It was not too late to reach there for dinner.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember, too, late that night, beating the bushes with my clenched fist until my knuckles were gashed and bleeding from the broken twigs.
-- Nor until it was too late did I clearly understand what she was to me.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll try it when I go home,' she thought to herself, 'the next time I'm a little late for dinner.'
-- Now if you'd asked my advice, I'd have said "Leave off at seven" but it's too late now.'
-- 'It's too late to correct it,' said the Red Queen: 'when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Livesey came late one afternoon to see the patient, took a bit of dinner from my mother, and went into the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should come down from the hamlet, for we had no stabling at the old Benbow.
-- It is a curious thing to understand, for I had certainly never liked the man, though of late I had begun to pity him, but as soon as I saw that he was dead, I burst into a flood of tears.
-- As for the first, though we were about half a mile away, we could hear them roaring and singing late into the night; and as for the second, the doctor staked his wig that, camped where they were in the marsh and unprovided with remedies, the half of them would be on their backs before a week.
-- It was already late in the afternoon, although still warm and sunny.
-- Silver paused, and I could see by the faces of George and his late comrades that these words had not been said in vain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was too late to act.
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