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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They came from the little village not half a mile from the sea nurseries, and they were deciding what seals they would drive up to the killing pens for the seals were driven just like sheep to be turned into seal-skin jackets later on.
-- Ten minutes later little Kotick did not recognize his friends any more, for their skins were ripped off from the nose to the hind flippers, whipped off and thrown down on the ground in a pile.
-- A week later he and his army (nearly ten thousand hol-luschickie and old seals) went away north to the Sea Cow's tunnel, Kotick leading them, and the seals that stayed at No-vastoshnah called them idiots.
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:
-- Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.
-- The reputation earned by Washington in this battle was the principal cause of his being selected to command the American armies at a later day.
-- He was, in truth, a minstrel of the western con-tinent of a much later day, certainly, than those gifted bards, who formerly sang the profane renown of baron and prince, but after the spirit of his own age and country; and he was now prepared to exercise the cunning of his craft, in celebration of, or rather in thanksgiving for, the recent vic-tory.
-- 'What is ordered must sooner or later arrive,' continued Hawkeye, turning with a sad and humbled look to Uncas.
-- No horse*,' continued the scout, shaking his head, like one who mused; 'horse, I am ashamed to say must sooner or later decide these scrimmages.
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:
-- For a long time no critic has enjoyed in France a more incontestable authority, and it was impossible not to be impressed by the claims he made; they seemed extravagant; but later judgments have confirmed his estimate, and the reputation of Charles Strickland is now firmly established on the lines which he laid down.
-- He wrote his biography芒聭露 avowedly to "remove certain misconceptions which had gained currency" in regard to the later part of his father's life, and which had "caused considerable pain to persons still living."
-- Mrs. Strickland asked me for my address, and a few days later I received an invitation to luncheon.
-- Chapter XA day or two later Mrs. Strickland sent me round a note asking if I could go and see her that evening after dinner.
-- Everyone has some sort of a conscience, and sooner or later it will find you out.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Half an hour later the land was not more than a mile off, but the balloon, exhausted, flabby, hanging in great folds, had gas in its upper part alone.
-- Three hours later at low tide, the greater part of the sand forming the bed of the channel was uncovered.
-- A minute later the dry wood crackled and a cheerful flame, assisted by the vigorous blowing of the sailor, sprang up in the midst of the darkness.
-- An instant later the capybara, dragged to the bank, was killed by a blow from Neb's stick.
-- Half an hour later they arrived at the river.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But, in a little time, this closed, the light was extinguished, and all was gloomy and quiet, except when some stray footsteps sounded on the pavement, or a neighbour, out later than his wont, knocked lustily at his house-door to rouse the sleeping inmates.
-- He was not unsusceptible of warm attachments in his later life, for when the good bachelor came to live with Mr Garland upon the clergyman's decease, he conceived a great friendship for him, and amiably submitted to be driven by his hands without the least resistance.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the square he jumped off, took one of the best cabs, and ten minutes later he alighted in front of Korchagin's large dwelling.
-- These three started on foot with the other convicts in the early morning, the politicals following them later in wagons.
-- "I was promised in St. Petersburg that the news of this woman's fate would be sent to this place not later than this month."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At first I was puzzled by all these strange fruits, and by the strange flowers I saw, but later I began to perceive their import.
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