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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As for Sebastian del Piombo there, you would judge for yourself; if it were not his later manner, the question was, Who was it?
-- 'No, sir, he comes on later in the afternoon.'
-- 'Have you later news of her than I have?'
-- At any hour later than sunset, and not least at that hour when most of the people who have anything to eat at home are going home to eat it, and when most of those who have nothing have hardly yet slunk out to beg or steal, it was a deserted place and looked on a deserted scene.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A strange sense of helplessness fell upon the girls as the gray bonnet vanished round the corner, and despair seized them when a few minutes later Miss Crocker appeared, and said she'd come to dinner.
-- 'Well, they can eat beef and bread and butter, if they are hungry, only it's mortifying to have to spend your whole morning for nothing,' thought Jo, as she rang the bell half an hour later than usual, and stood, hot, tired, and dispir-ited, surveying the feast spread before Laurie, accustomed to all sorts of elegance, and Miss Crocker, whose tattling tongue would report them far and wide.
-- Mrs. March's warning was evidently thrown away, for five minutes later Laurie tore by the window on his own fleet horse, riding as if for his life.
-- A week later Amy did get her reward, and poor Jo found it hard to be delighted.
-- 'Thank you, I will,' he answered in jest, and a few months later he did it in earnest.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For the long absent ship, the outward-bounder, perhaps, has letters on board; at any rate, she will be sure to let her have some papers of a date a year or two later than the last one on her blurred and thumb-worn files.
-- Such unintermitted strainings upon the planted iron must sooner or later inevitably extract it.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Gardiner would be prevented by business from set-ting out till a fortnight later in July, and must be in London again within a month, and as that left too short a period for them to go so far, and see so much as they had proposed, or at least to see it with the leisure and comfort they had built on, they were obliged to give up the Lakes, and substitute a more contracted tour, and, according to the present plan, were to go no farther northwards than Derbyshire.
-- Without allowing herself time for consideration, and scarcely knowing what she felt, Elizabeth on finishing this letter instantly seized the other, and opening it with the ut-most impatience, read as follows: it had been written a day later than the conclusion of the first.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Much as you suffer now, think of what you would have suffered if the discovery of his character had been delayed to a later period if your engagement had been carried on for months and months, as it might have been, before he chose to put an end to it.
-- To consult with Colonel Brandon on the best means of effecting the latter, was a thought which immediately followed the resolution of its performance; and as soon she had rung up the maid to take her place by her sister, she hastened down to the drawing-room, where she knew he was generally to be found at a much later hour than the present.
-- At ten o'clock, she trusted, or at least not much later her mother would be relieved from the dreadful suspense in which she must now be travelling towards them.
-- I mean never to be later in rising than six, and from that time till dinner I shall divide every moment between music and reading.
-- I never could have been happy with him, after knowing, as sooner or later I must have known, all this. I should have had no confidence, no esteem.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A week or so later Drouet strolled into Fitzgerald and Moy's, spruce in dress and manner.
-- As it was, she wavered a little, slightly anxious, at first, to gain him completely, but later feeling at ease in waiting.
-- A few weeks later Drouet, in his peregrinations, encountered one of his well-dressed lady acquaintances in Chicago on his return from a short trip to Omaha.
-- "He hasn't talked to me about any of these later flames," thought Hurstwood to himself.
-- The next morning he had cooled down considerably, and later the ticket was duly secured, though it did not heal matters.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And later the three cores were placed on the table next to the skins.
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