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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What made you late then?"
-- At night they came back to the flat very late again, again flushed with drink.
-- "Go away, it wearies me it's too late at night," he said.
-- They saw the two girls appear, small, brilliant figures in the near distance, in the strong light of the late afternoon.
-- They passed the bathers whose striped tents stood between the willows of the meadow's edge, and drew along the open shore, past the meadows that sloped golden in the light of the already late afternoon.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, sir, she is my late master's daughter: Catherine Linton was her maiden name.
-- No; he is the late Mrs. Linton's nephew.
-- Oho!I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway."
-- He was my late master: that is his portrait over the fireplace.
-- He guesses we shouldn't wait for him till this late hour: at least, he guesses that only Mr. Hindley would be up; and he'd rather avoid having the door opened by the master.
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