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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my part, my curiosity and interest were at least equal to the child's, for child she certainly was, although I thought it probable from what I could make out, that her very small and delicate frame imparted a peculiar youthfulness to her appearance.
-- 'But what,' said Mr Swiveller with a sigh, 'what is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather!What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!'
-- And so he went on, content to read the book of her heart from the page first presented to him, little dreaming of the story that lay hidden in its other leaves, and murmuring within himself that at least the child was happy.
-- He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Nothing, of course," the prosecutor said, with a faint smile on his face, and not in the least disturbed.
-- In other words, he was paid five rubles for what hired, cheap labor would cost at least ten rubles.
-- His mother asks to be permitted to visit him, or, at least to send him books."
-- In a sympathetic conversation about the injustice of the strong, the poverty of the people, the awful condition of the prisoners, she succeeded in rousing in him the least expected feeling of physical attraction, and under the din of conversation their eyes plainly queried, "Can you love me?"
-- This one is at least truthful, while the other is lying."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I got to demonstrative pronouns, and even the verb 'to eat.'
-- And I now understood to some slight degree at least the reason of the fear of the little Upperworld people for the dark.
-- I at least would defend myself.
-- At least she utilised them for that purpose.
-- "To judge from the size of the place, this Palace of Green Porcelain had a great deal more in it than a Gallery of Pal脙娄ontology; possibly historical galleries; it might be, even a library!To me, at least in my present circumstances, these would be vastly more interesting than this spectacle of old-time geology in decay.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'
-- 'I don't rejoice in insects at all,' Alice explained, 'because I'm rather afraid of them at least the large kinds.
-- Humpty Dumpty was sitting with his legs crossed, like a Turk, on the top of a high wall such a narrow one that Alice quite wondered how he could keep his balance and, as his eyes were steadily fixed in the opposite direction, and he didn't take the least notice of her, she thought he must be a stuffed figure after all.
-- His name is Haigha, and he lives ''He lives on the Hill,' the King remarked simply, without the least idea that he was joining in the game, while Alice was still hesitating for the name of a town beginning with H. 'The other Messenger's called Hatta.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of the men who had been to field-work on the far side of the Admiral Benbow remembered, besides, to have seen several strangers on the road, and taking them to be smugglers, to have bolted away; and one at least had seen a little lugger in what we called Kitt's Hole.
-- We'll have favourable winds, a quick passage, and not the least difficulty in finding the spot, and money to eat, to roll in, to play duck and drake with ever after."
-- Sometimes he fell and cut himself; sometimes he lay all day long in his little bunk at one side of the companion; sometimes for a day or two he would be almost sober and attend to his work at least passably.
-- Double grog was going on the least excuse; there was duff on odd days, as, for instance, if the squire heard it was any man's birthday, and always a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist for anyone to help himself that had a fancy.
-- Second point, we have time before us at least until this treasure's found.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I myself, for whom money had no charms, was not the least attentive on board.
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