least是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 最小的； 最少的ad. 最小； 最少，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel.
-- It has been done in your name, or at least in that of your family,' said Scrooge.
-- So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob, the father, with at least three feet of comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder.
-- 'At least you always tell me so.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He walked up hill in the mire by the side of the mail, as the rest of the passengers did; not because they had the least relish for walking exercise, under the circumstances, but because the hill, and the harness, and the mud, and the mail, were all so heavy, that the horses had three times already come to a stop, besides once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath.
-- But indeed, at that time, putting to death was a recipe much in vogue with all trades and professions, and not least of all with Tellson's.
-- Not that it did the least good in the way of prevention it might almost have been worth remarking that the fact was exactly the reverse but, it cleared off (as to this world) the trouble of each particular case, and left nothing else connected with it to be looked after.
-- 'So at least you say he may have been one of them?'
-- 'All sorts of people who are not in the least degree worthy of the pet, are always turning up,' said Miss Pross.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not trouble himself in the least about his soldiers; nor did he care to go either to the theatre or the chase, except for the opportunities then afforded him for displaying his new clothes.
-- 'I cannot discover the least bit of thread on the looms.'
-- They took hold of the worthy man; who, hearing on every side that he was intoxicated, did not in the least doubt the truth of this certainly not very polite assertion; but on the contrary, implored the ladies and gentlemen present to pro-cure him a hackney-coach: they, however, imagined he was talking Russian.
-- He stood in the handsomely furnished apartment, and held between his fingers a small sheet of rose-colored paper, on which some verses were written written indeed by the officer himself; for who has not', at least once in his life, had a lyrical mo-ment?
-- Here one of the sorrows of life, in which there is real poetry, gave itself vent; not that barren grief which the poet may only hint at, but never depict in its detail misery and want: that animal necessity, in short, to snatch at least at a fallen leaf of the bread-fruit tree, if not at the fruit itself.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.
-- She was just attempting to do what she had attempted to do ten times already in these last three days--to sort out the children's things and her own, so as to take them to her mother's--and again she could not bring herself to do this; but now again, as each time before, she kept saying to herself, "that things cannot go on like this, that she must take some step" to punish him, put him to shame, avenge on him some little part at least of the suffering he had caused her.
-- I don't see the least chance of it.
-- You know to me all women are divided into two classes...at least no...truer to say: there are women and there are...I've never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same."
-- But though Vronsky had not the least suspicion what the parents were saying, he felt on coming away from the Shtcherbatskys' that the secret spiritual bond which existed between him and Kitty had grown so much stronger that evening that some step must be taken.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People said that he resembled Byron at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
-- He was, in short, the least communicative of men.
-- He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
-- It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years.
-- "But, Mr. Fogg, eighty days are only the estimate of the least possible time in which the journey can be made."
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