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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Still, I daresay in my pocket " "You told me three days ago that you hadn't anything but a sovereign's worth of silver upon you."
-- My mood was as different from that in which I had sallied forth ten minutes ago as it is possible to imagine.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a naked man's cub and not fit to dig pig-nuts.
-- Some king had built it long ago on a little hill.
-- Seal Lullaby All these things happened several years ago at a place called Novastoshnah, or North East Point, on the Island of St. Paul, away and away in the Bering Sea.
-- Then the Sea Cow began to travel northward very slowly, stopping to hold absurd bowing councils from time to time, and Kotick fol-lowed them, saying to himself, 'People who are such idiots as these are would have been killed long ago if they hadn't found out some safe island.
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：
-- 'In what manner will he speak,' demanded the wary chief, 'when the runners count to him the scalps which five nights ago grew on the heads of the Yengeese?'
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：
-- "How long ago is it?"
-- "For long ago I had the idea that he was possessed of a devil."
-- I remembered my anticipation long ago that she would marry a soldier.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but tax-gatherer and creditor came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game.
-- There was one giant a black 'un as left his carawan some year ago and took to carrying coach-bills about London, making himself as cheap as crossing-sweepers.
-- How every circumstance of her short, eventful life, came thronging into her mind, as they travelled on!Slight incidents, never thought of or remembered until now; faces, seen once and ever since forgotten; words scarcely heeded at the time; scenes, of a year ago and those of yesterday, mixing up and linking themselves together; familiar places shaping themselves out in the darkness from things which, when approached, were, of all others, the most remote and most unlike them; sometimes, a strange confusion in her mind relative to the occasion of her being there, and the place to which she was going, and the people she was with; and imagination suggesting remarks and questions which sounded so plainly in her ears, that she would start, and turn, and be almost tempted to reply; all the fancies and contradictions common in watching and excitement and restless change of place, beset the child.
-- The old house had been long ago pulled down, and a fine broad road was in its place.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that he found himself the owner of vast estates, he was confronted by two alternatives: either to waive his ownership in favor of the peasants, as he did ten years ago with the two hundred acres, or, by tacit acquiescence, confess that all his former ideas were erroneous and false.
-- Three years ago he was an honest, self-denying youth, ready to devote himself to every good cause; now he was a corrupt and refined egotist, given over to personal enjoyment.
-- There was something revolting and sacriligious to him in this representation of his mother as a denuded beauty, the more so because three months ago she lay in this very room shrunken like a mummy, and filling the entire house with an oppressive odor.
-- I heard long ago that she had gone to the bad, so whose fault is it?"
-- Three weeks ago the warden struck one of the chambermen for spilling some soup on his new uniform.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long ago I had a vague inkling of a machine ""To travel through Time!"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's been blows too, and I reckon your friends has had the best of it; and here they are ashore in the old stockade, as was made years and years ago by Flint.
-- We're outnumbered, I needn't tell you that, but we fight in shelter; and a minute ago I should have said we fought with discipline.
-- Had it been otherwise, I must long ago have perished; but as it was, it is surprising how easily and securely my little and light boat could ride.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As you spoke a while ago of the passage of the Israelites and of the catastrophe to the Egyptians, I will ask whether you have met with the traces under the water of this great historical fact?"
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