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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Glenarvan examined them attentively for a few minutes, turning them over on all sides, holding them up to the light, and trying to decipher the least scrap of writing, while the others looked on with anxious eyes.
-- It would not in the least alter the actual state of the case; so not a word was said, and after answering all Miss Grant's questions, Lady Helena began to interrogate in her turn, asking her about her past life and her present circumstances.
-- It will not the least interfere with our route."
-- We must go in there anyhow for coal, so your disembarkation will not occasion the least delay."
-- "Does not the name Patagonia seem apparent even to the least clear-sighted individual?"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As to the latter part, I have no means of checking you,' said I, 'but at least it is not difficult to find out a few -particulars about the man's age and professional career.'
-- 'The circumstances connected with the death of Sir Charles cannot be said to have been entirely cleared up by the inquest, but at least enough has been done to dispose of those rumours to which local superstition has given rise.
-- 'At least I might go the length of saying that there is some evidence that this may be so.'
-- If the gipsy's evidence may be taken as true, he ran with cries for help in the direction where help was least likely to be.
-- If on that forbidding moor a difficult and dangerous quest should lie before us, this was at least a comrade for whom one might venture to take a risk with the certainty that he would bravely share it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is hardly a relation at all; so little, in fact, that I was not in the least surprised to have no answer to my letter.
-- said the general with an-noyance, and apparently not in the least anxious to conceal it.
-- IV LL three of the Miss Epanchins were fine, healthy Agirls, wellgrown, with good shoulders and busts, and strong almost masculine hands; and, of course, with all the above attributes, they enjoyed capital appetites, of which they were not in the least ashamed.
-- The answer of the sisters to the communication was, if not conclusive, at least consoling and hopeful.
-- He had sufficient insight to understand that she valued nothing in the world herself least of all and he made no attempt to conceal the fact that he was a cow-ard in some respects.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If however you are kept back through knowledge of some oracle, or if your mother Thetis has told you something from the mouth of Jove, at least send me and the Myrmidons with me, if I may bring deliverance to the Danaans.
-- But Achilles spoke saying, 'Son of Atreus, we know how far you excel all others both in power and in throwing the jav-elin; take the cauldron back with you to your ships, but if it so please you, let us give the spear to Meriones; this at least is what I should myself wish.'
-- I see a man who I think will presently fall upon us; let us fly with our horses, or at least embrace his knees and implore him to take com-passion upon us?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And directly the crates were unpacked, the stranger went to the window and set to work, not troubling in the least about the litter of straw, the fire which had gone out, the box of books outside, nor for the trunks and other luggage that had gone upstairs.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is at least this much in its behalf: my uncle passed out of human knowledge about lat-itude 5' S. and longitude 105' E., and reappeared in the same part of the ocean after a space of eleven months.
-- Here at least was one visi-tor to the island disposed of!There were no traces of other violence about it.
-- They were talking, or at least one of the men was talking to the other two, and all three had been too closely interest-ed to heed the rustling of my approach.
-- I had even a certain wish to encounter Moreau face to face; and as I had waded into the water, I remembered that if I were too hard pressed at least one path of escape from torment still lay open to me, they could not very well prevent my drowning myself.
-- He was a man, then, at least as much of a man as Montgomery's attendant, for he could talk.
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