prolong是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 延长; 拖延，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We need it anyway, either to prolong our search or continue our route."
-- "Stop, Paganel, don't excite yourself; I don't mean to say that we should prolong our search in America."
-- Glenarvan could not prolong the halt for a moment.
-- "There is only one chance against it; that is, if the savages prolong their watch at the foot of Maunganamu, we may run short of provisions.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat down with these words, evidently intending to prolong his visit.
-- May you be accursed too, for you were the only one I trusted among them all!Go away, Rogojin, I don't want you,' she continued, blind with fury, and forcing the words out with dry lips and distorted features, evidently not believing a single word of her own tirade, but, at the same time, doing her utmost to prolong the moment of self-deception.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Levin, pointing to Laska, who with one ear raised, wagging the end of her shaggy tail, came slowly back as though she would prolong the pleasure, and as it were smiling, brought the dead bird to her master.
-- He was absolutely convinced that nothing could be done to prolong his brother's life or to relieve his suffering.
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：
-- Heyward, perceiving that the stubborn adherence of the scout to the cause of his friends the Delawares, or Mohicans, for they were branches of the same numerous people, was likely to prolong a useless discussion, changed the subject.
-- In that language he knew so well how to assume, he diverted his comrades from their instant purpose, and invited them to prolong the misery of their victims.
-- Unwilling to prolong a useless discussion, the young man affected to comply, by posting his back against the logs of the blockhouse, in a half recumbent posture, though reso-lutely determined, in his own mind, not to close an eye until he had delivered his precious charge into the arms of Mun-ro himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By lightening the car of all the articles which it contained, the passengers had been able to prolong their suspension in the air for a few hours.
-- According to him, Neb's delay was ca used by some new circumstances which had induced him to prolong his search.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man who had been in motion since eight o'clock in the morning, and might now have been still, who had been long talking, and might have been silent, who had been in more than one crowd, and might have been alone! Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world! Could he by a touch of his finger have instantly taken back his wife, there would have been a motive; but his coming would probably prolong rather than break up the party.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All Troy's vigour spasmodically revived to prolong the struggle yet a little further.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He revolved a thousand plans by which he should be enabled to prolong the deceit until it might be no longer necessary, and secretly to take his daughter with him when he departed.
-- He mentioned the beauties of his native country and asked us if those were not sufficient allure-ments to induce us to prolong our journey as far north as Perth, where he resided.
-- But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, if electricity does not furnish me with air to breathe, it works at least the powerful pumps that are stored in spacious reservoirs, and which enable me to prolong at need, and as long as I will, my stay in the depths of the sea.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we make the fatal mistake of husbanding our little remnant of food, we may probably prolong our wretched existence a few hours--but we shall remain weak to the end."
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：
-- For she only had to hold herself back in sexual intercourse, and let him fin-ish and expend himself without herself coming to the crisis: and then she could prolong the connexion and achieve her orgasm and her crisis while he was merely her tool.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dismissal, and its accompanying finger pointed straight at the door, was so curt and direct that Mr Pancks did not see his way to prolong his visit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fagin was sufficiently well acquainted with the manners and customs of that particular species of humanity to which Nancy belonged, to feel tolerably certain that it would be rather unsafe to prolong any conversation with her, at present.
-- she added, disengaging her hand, 'why should we prolong this painful interview?
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