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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These 40 pounds I had mustered together by the assistance of some of my relations whom I corresponded with; and who, I believe, got my father, or at least my mother, to contribute so much as that to my first adventure.
-- Here I meditated nothing but my escape, and what meth-od I might take to effect it, but found no way that had the least probability in it; nothing presented to make the sup-position of it rational; for I had nobody to communicate it to that would embark with me - no fellow-slave, no English-man, Irishman, or Scotchman there but myself; so that for two years, though I often pleased myself with the imagi-nation, yet I never had the least encouraging prospect of putting it in practice.
-- It happened one time, that going a-fishing in a calm morning, a fog rose so thick that, though we were not half a league from the shore, we lost sight of it; and rowing we knew not whither or which way, we laboured all day, and all the next night; and when the morning came we found we had pulled off to sea instead of pulling in for the shore; and that we were at least two leagues from the shore.
-- The wind blew from the N.N.E., which was contrary to my desire, for had it blown southerly I had been sure to have made the coast of Spain, and at least reached to the bay of Cadiz; but my resolutions were, blow which way it would, I would be gone from that horrid place where I was, and leave the rest to fate.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as he required the promise, I could not do less than give it; at least I thought so at the time.
-- "Is there a felicity in the world," said Marianne, "superior to this? Margaret, we will walk here at least two hours."
-- Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her.
-- "Yes," cried he in the same eager tone, "with all and every thing belonging to it; in no one convenience or INconvenience about it, should the least variation be perceptible.
-- Elinor's uneasiness was at least equal to her mother's.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aside from making her uncomfortable by sidelong glances, no one paid her the least attention.
-- There was a class, however, too rich, too famous, or too successful, with whom he could not attempt any familiarity of address, and with these he was professionally tactful, assuming a grave and dignified attitude, paying them the deference which would win their good feeling without in the least compromising his own bearing and opinions.
-- There was the least quaver in her voice as she said this.
-- Her decision to hunt for work was moderately strong, but the money in her pocket, after all her troubling over it, made the work question the least shade less terrible.
-- He might suffer the least rudimentary twinge of conscience in whatever he did, and in just so far he was evil and sinning.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Tom and Bob went to the sideboard where the decanter was, and mixed a glass of bitters and handed it to him, and he held it in his hand and waited till Tom's and Bob's was mixed, and then they bowed and said, 'Our duty to you, sir, and madam;' and THEY bowed the least bit in the world and said thank you, and so they drank, all three, and Bob and Tom poured a spoonful of water on the sugar and the mite of whisky or apple brandy in the bottom of their tum-blers, and give it to me and Buck, and we drank to the old people too.
-- So then we was pretty scared, and made up an agreement that we wouldn't have nothing in the world to do with such actions, and if we ever got the least show we would give them the cold shake and clear out and leave them behind.
-- It ain't no crime in a prisoner to steal the thing he needs to get away with, Tom said; it's his right; and so, as long as we was representing a prisoner, we had a perfect right to steal anything on this place we had the least use for to get ourselves out of prison with.
-- But Tom he showed him how unregular it would be, and set down and told him all about our plans, and how we could alter them in a minute any time there was an alarm; and not to be the least afraid, because we would see he got away, SURE.
-- So he set his ear to the crack and listened, and listened, and listened, and the steps a-scraping around out there all the time; and at last he nudged us, and we slid out, and stooped down, not breathing, and not making the least noise, and slipped stealthy towards the fence in Injun file, and got to it all right, and me and Jim over it; but Tom's britches catched fast on a splinter on the top rail, and then he hear the steps coming, so he had to pull loose, which snapped the splin-ter and made a noise; and as he dropped in our tracks and started somebody sings out: 'Who's that?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the Cricket, who was a wise old philosopher, instead of being offended at Pinocchio's impudence, continued in the same tone: "If you do not like going to school, why don't you at least learn a trade, so that you can earn an honest living?"
-- Poor Pinocchio ran to the fireplace where the pot was boiling and stretched out his hand to take the cover off, but to his amazement the pot was only painted!Think how he felt!His long nose became at least two inches longer.
-- "I beg for mercy for my poor friend, Harlequin, who has never done the least harm in his life."
-- Pinocchio ate least of all.
-- Just because I would not listen to that bothersome Cricket, who knows how many misfortunes may be awaiting me!Assassins indeed!At least I have never believed in them, nor ever will.
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