later是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 后来， 过后，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the fiddles, bull fiddles, accordions, banjos and knuckle-bones broke into a slowrendition of "Lorena" too slow for dancing, the dancing would come later when the booths were emptied of theirwares.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A little later on in the dinner, Mr. Wopsle reviewed the sermon with some severity, and intimated--in the usual hypothetical case of the Church being "thrown open"--what kind of sermon he would have given them.
-- It was not with me then, as it was in later life, when I fell into the society of the Passions, and compared them with Collins and Wopsle, rather to the disadvantage of both gentlemen.
-- Chapter XThe felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.
-- There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more.
-- I remember that at a later period of my "time," I used to stand about the churchyard on Sunday evenings when night was falling, comparing my own perspective with the windy marsh view, and making out some likeness between them by thinking how flat and low both were, and how on both there came an unknown way and a dark mist and then the sea.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently the fruit became round and firm, and she was glad and at peace; but when they were fully ripe she picked the berries and 226 Grimms' Fairy Talesate eagerly of them, and then she grew sad and ill. A little while later she called her husband, and said to him, weep-ing.
-- By degrees, however, his sorrow grew less, and although at times he still grieved over his loss, he was able to go about as usual, and later on he married again.
-- The little man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard with the fishing-line; a moment later a big fish made a bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf towards him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have been a determined character in later life, and I suppose I was then.
-- 'My visiting time is later this year than usual, for I have been rather troubled with shortness of breath, and so put it off till the weather was fine and warm.
-- Besides such volunteers as were accepted to work, only Sissy and Rachael were at first permitted within this ring; but, later in the day, when the message brought an express from Coketown, Mr. Gradgrind and Louisa, and Mr. Bounderby, and the whelp, were also there.
-- She left her love for her brother, with her eyes full of tears; and she and Sissy went away until later in the afternoon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The manuscript volume and the smaller document are written in different hands," he said, "the cryptograph is of much later date than the book; there is an undoubted proof of the correctness of my surmise.
-- The fact is, the castle is much later than the time of the heroic prince of Denmark.
-- Two days later we were not far from the coast of Scotland, somewhere near what Danish sailors call Peterhead, and then the Valkyrie stretched out direct for the Faroe Islands, between Orkney and Shetland.
-- This important matter settled, Hans gave the signal for departure, and some few moments later we had left Stapi.
-- At a later period in the world's history, a huge and mighty fissure must, reasoning by analogy, have been dug diagonally from the southwest to the northeast of the island, through which by degrees flowed the volcanic crust.
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：
-- He wanted to say something later to Connie about the demi-vierge business...the half-virgin state of her affairs.
-- But this is a later stage of King Edward's landscape gar-dening, the sort that has an ornamental coal-mine on the lawn.
-- A little later the Guthries, the prince, the countess, Sir Alexander, and sometimes Mr Lind, the chaplain, would go off to the Lido, where they would bathe; coming home to a late lunch at half past one.
-- A few days later came a letter from Clifford.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was even the later addition of a conservatory sheltering itself against it, uncertain of hue in its deep-stained glass, and in its more transparent portions flashing to the sun's rays, now like fire and now like harmless water drops; which might have stood for Tattycoram.
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