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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At least Clif had reality; the reality of a plowed field, of a steaming manure-pile.
-- You see the world that way, and at least you aren't racing up and down the boat trying to drag patients away from some rival doc that has an office on another deck!"
-- If Duer was quiet and book-wrapped, he was not in the least timid; he faced Clif with the eye of a magistrate, and cowed him.
-- It was not the unfeeling Angus Duer who stared at the watchman; it was a killer, and his eyes were the terrible eyes of the killer, speaking to the least experienced a message of death.
-- It was, at least on the part of Clif and Mr. Babbitt, a mirthful affair, and when Martin had joined them in cocktails, St. Louis beer, and highballs, he saw that Clif was the most generous person now living, and Mr. George F. Babbitt a companion of charm.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there was such accu-mulated bitterness and contempt in the young man's heart, that, in spite of all the fastidiousness of youth, he minded his rags least of all in the street.
-- And yet 芒聙娄 oh, if only she felt for me!Honoured sir, honoured sir, you know every man ought to have at least one place where 24 Crime and Punishmentpeople feel for him!But Katerina Ivanovna, though she is magnanimous, she is unjust芒聙娄.
-- I have noticed more than once in my life that husbands don't quite get on with their moth-ers-in- law, and I don't want to be the least bit in anyone's way, and for my own sake, too, would rather be quite inde-pendent, so long as I have a crust of bread of my own, and such children as you and Dounia.
-- I would send you more, but I am uneasy about our travelling expenses; for though Pyotr Petrovitch has been so kind as to under-take part of the expenses of the journey, that is to say, he has taken upon himself the conveyance of our bags and big trunk (which will be conveyed through some acquaintanc-es of his), we must reckon upon some expense on our arrival in Petersburg, where we can't be left without a halfpenny, 60 Crime and Punishmentat least for the first few days.
-- The student chattered on, saying that she had a sister Lizaveta, whom the wretched little creature was continually beating, and kept in complete bondage like a small child, though Lizaveta was at least six feet high.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each of them was lyingon at least four chairs, and had a large rough jacket on.
-- Little Em'ly had overcome her shyness, andwas sitting by my side upon the lowest and least of the lockers,which was just large enough for us two, and just fitted in the 38chimney corner.
-- It appeared, inanswer to my inquiries, that nobody had the least idea of theetymology of this terrible verb passive to be gormed; but that theyall regarded it as constituting a most solemn imprecation.
-- Shestarted from my side, and ran along a jagged timber whichprotruded from the place we stood upon, and overhung the deepwater at some height, without the least defence.
-- Ihad little doubt then, and I have less doubt now, that he wouldhave knocked me down without the least compunction, if I hadhesitated.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His per-ception of the striking improvement of Harriet's manner, since her introduction at Hartfield, was not one of the least agreeable proofs of his growing attachment.
-- There was merit in every drawing in the least finished, perhaps the most; her style was spirited; but had there been much less, or had there been ten times more, the delight and admiration of her two companions would have been the same.
-- 'Miss Woodhouse has given her friend the only beauty she wanted,' observed Mrs. Weston to him not in the least suspecting that she was addressing a lover. 'The ex-pression of the eye is most correct, but Miss Smith has not those eyebrows and eyelashes.
-- Emma knew that she had, but would not own it; and Mr. Elton warmly added, 'Oh no!certainly not too tall; not in the least too tall.
-- Yes, quite a proposal of marriage; and a very good letter, at least she thought so.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But since a woman can't show off in that way by herself, I shan't marry at least yet."
-- The ewes lay dead and dying at its foot a heap of two hundred mangled carcasses, representing in their condition just now at least two hundred more.
-- The smaller human elements were kept out of sight; the pettinesses that enter so largely into all earthly living and doing were disguised by the accident of lover and loved-one not being on visiting terms; and there was hardly awakened a thought in Boldwood that sorry household realities appertained to her, or that she, like all others, had moments of commonplace, when to be least plainly seen was to be most prettily remembered.
-- Bathsheba, not being the least in love with him, was eventually able to look calmly at his offer.
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