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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here at least the spirit of the ancient builders was at one with the spirit of the modern beholder.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the ugliest quarter of Paris, and, it may be added, the least known.
-- Vauquer herself occupying the least important, while the rest were let to a Mme.
-- Suddenly the young man's ambition discerned in those recollections of hers, which had been like nursery fairy tales to her nephews and nieces, the elements of a social success at least as important as the success which he had achieved at the Ecole de Droit.
-- After much shaking of the branches of the family tree, the old lady came to the conclusion that of all persons who could be useful to her nephew among the selfish genus of rich relations, the Vicomtesse de Beauseant was the least likely to refuse.
-- Eugene said to himself, "I am in for it now, and at least I will not spend cab-hire for nothing!-- Drive to the Hotel Beauseant," he said aloud.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I should be engaged, I will at least make notes.
-- Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
-- I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts 53would at least lay the foundations of future success.
-- He is desirous to be a true Swiss and to enter into foreign service, but we cannot part with him, at least until his elder brother return to us.
-- Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each oth-er's blood.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They said they were going tohave her go to one party at least like a lady, riding in the carriage."
-- No one could ever tell what he was thinking about, Scarlett least ofall.
-- Being the least analytic ofpeople, she did not realize that this was because she possessed in some degree these same qualities, despite sixteenyears of effort on the part of Ellen and Mammy to obliterate them.
-- You'd be happier if he did, for at least you'd be understanding that.
-- Mr. Wilkes always had at least a dozen darkies busy running back and forth withtrays to serve the guests.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, I desperately considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it had best be done in the least improbable manner consistent with the circumstances.
-- Not because I was squeezed in at an acute angle of the tablecloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn't want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain.
-- A man can't starve; at least I can't.
-- "So," said my convict, turning his eyes on Joe in a moody manner, and without the least glance at me,--"so you're the blacksmith, are you?
-- Joe pronounced this word, as if it began with at least twelve capital Bs.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The least they will do will be to throw you into the horse-pond.
-- And on each side of her were two rows of burning lights, of all sizes, the greatest as large as the highest and biggest tower in the world, and the least no larger than a small rushlight.
-- And thus she thought she should at least get rid of her.
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