ago是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. (常和一般过去时的动词连用) 以前， …前，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The father had long ago taken up his bundle and bidden himself away with it, when the women who had tended the bundle while it lay 157on the base of the fountain, sat there watching the running of the water and the rolling of the Fancy Ball when the one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate.
-- 'I saw him then, messieurs,' began the mender of roads, 'a year ago this running summer, underneath the carriage of the Marquis, hanging by the chain.
-- Crash! A head is held up, and the knittingwomen who scarcely lifted their eyes to look at it a moment ago when it could think and speak, count One.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- *This relates to a book published some years ago in Germany, and said to be by Herschel, which contained a description of the moon and its inhabitants, written with such a semblance of truth that many were deceived by the imposture.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had never clearly thought out the subject, but he had vaguely conceived that his wife must long ago have suspected him of being unfaithful to her, and shut her eyes to the fact.
-- Sergey Ivanovitch had long ago finished dinner, and was drinking iced lemon and water in his own room, looking through the reviews and papers which he had only just received by post, when Levin rushed into the room, talking merrily, with his wet and matted hair sticking to his forehead, and his back and chest grimed and moist.
-- The old man who had been sitting beside him had long ago gone home; the people had all separated.
-- Having attained success and an established position in the world, he had long ago forgotten this feeling; but the habitual bent of feeling reasserted itself, and dread of his own cowardice proved even now so strong that Alexey Alexandrovitch spent a long while thinking over the question of dueling in all its aspects, and hugging the idea of a duel, though he was fully aware beforehand that he would never under any circumstances fight one.
-- And not with out inward pride, and not without reason, he thought that any other man would long ago have been in difficulties, would have been forced to some dishonorable course, if he had found himself in such a difficult position.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through a fortnight, while the Norbloms agonized over deciding to do what they had long ago decided to do, Martin waited, unable to begin work.
-- He was equally distasteful of the gallant Martin of two days ago and the prosy cautious Martin of tonight.
-- Think of your being Director, head of that whole great Institute, when just a few years ago you were only a cub there!
-- And an hour ago I was so proud of you!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hence the pot-house!Honoured sir, a month ago Mr. Le-beziatnikov gave my wife a beating, and my wife is a very different matter from me!Do you understand?
-- A month ago when Mr. Lebeziatnikov beat my wife with his own hands, and I lay drunk, didn't I suffer?
-- The medal 芒聙娄 well, the medal of course was sold long ago, hm 芒聙娄 but the certificate of merit is in her trunk still and not long ago she showed it to our landlady.
-- But even so, I could not please her; and then I lost my place too, and that through no fault of mine but through changes in the office; and then I did touch it!芒聙娄 It will be a year and a half ago soon since we found ourselves at last after many wanderings and numerous calamities in this magnificent capital, adorned with innumerable monuments.
-- I did make an effort four years ago to give her a course of geography and universal history, but as I was not very well up in those subjects myself and we had no suitable books, and what books we had 芒聙娄 hm, anyway we have not even those now, so all our instruction came to an end.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being assisted by a gentleman who notlong ago aspired to the favour of your hand, I am sanguine as tothat.'
-- She'll work at them clothes, as must be made; and Ihope her troubles will begin to seem longer ago than they was,wen she finds herself once more by her rough but loving uncle.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as gov-erness, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.
-- You do not know it I dare say, but two or three years ago I had a great passion for tak-ing likenesses, and attempted several of my friends, and was thought to have a tolerable eye in general.
-- They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade, My first doth affliction denote, Which my second is destin'd to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal. made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had tran-scribed it some pages ago already.
-- 'Jane caught a bad cold, poor thing!so long ago as the 7th of November, (as I am going to read to you,) and has never been well since.
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