ultimate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 最后的， 最终的； 根本的，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：
-- Varvara Ardalionovna married Ptitsin this winter, and it was said that the fact of Gania's retirement from busi-ness was the ultimate cause of the marriage, since Gania was now not only unable to support his family, but even re-quired help himself.
-- 'Well, this strange circumstance which I have described with so much detail was the ultimate cause which led me to taking my final determination.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that this was changed, and he knew himself to be invested through that old trial with forces to which they both looked for Charles's ultimate safe-ty and deliverance, he became so far exalted by the change, that he took the lead and direction, and required them as the weak, to trust to him as the strong.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the ultimate belief on which all the systems elaborated by human thought in almost all their ramifications rested.
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：
-- Duncan began to breathe more freely, believing that the weight of his exami-nation was past; and, as he had already prepared a simple and probable tale to support his pretended occupation, his hopes of ultimate success grew brighter.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those, ah, those, I seize them, I denounce them, I teach them right away the ultimate lesson of science, which is to wait and doubt.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ultimate and saddest singularity of woman's effort and invention was reached when, with a quickened breathing, she rose to a stooping posture, and, resting her two little arms upon the shoulders of the dog, leant firmly thereon, and murmured stimulating words.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hitherto, except during my night's anguish at the loss of the Time Machine, I had felt a sustaining hope of ultimate escape, but that hope was staggered by these new discoveries.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Confidence in ultimate victory never wavered.
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：
-- There was a certain hostility, a hidden ultimate reserve in him, cold and inaccessible.
-- And he too was tortured with shame, and ultimate dislike, and with acute pity for her, because he did not want to meet her eyes, he did not want to receive her flare of recognition.
-- It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman sort of ultimate marriage and there isn't anything else."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "More than that, I am now confident of ultimate success."
-- There remain, however, many chances of ultimate safety, and I have, in my own mind, been revolving them over, during your heavy but agitated sleep.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She shared her ultimate naked-ness with a man, another being.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to what ultimate generalizing purpose all these have written, the above cited extracts will show.
-- For one, I used to lounge up the rigging very leisurely, resting in the top to have a chat with Queequeg, or any one else off duty whom I might find there; then ascending a little way further, and throwing a lazy leg over the top-sail yard, take a preliminary view of the watery pastures, and so at last mount to my ultimate destination.
-- Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby Dick; though he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one passion; nevertheless it may have been that he was by nature and long habituation far too wedded to a fiery whaleman's ways, altogether to abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage.
-- The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.
-- But almost everybody supposed that this particular preparative heedfulness in Ahab must only be with a view to the ultimate chase of Moby Dick; for he had already revealed his intention to hunt that mortal monster in person.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had turned the cuffs back, half-way up his arm, to get his hands out of the sleeves: apparently with the ultimate view of thrusting them into the pockets of his corduroy trousers; for there he kept them.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed my courage had begun to rise so high that I allowed myself a few darting thoughts on what would be the end of the affair, and while I saw certainly that I could spin it out for long, I saw no hope of any ultimate escape.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hour was about four, and the ultimate darkness of the night was past.
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