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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At least I thought so.
-- However, if electricity does not furnish me with air to breathe, it works at least the powerful pumps that are stored in spacious reservoirs, and which enable me to prolong at need, and as long as I will, my stay in the depths of the sea.
-- "Now, if water is not absolutely incompressible, it is at least capable of very slight compression.
-- "If Captain Nemo does sometimes go on dry ground," said I, "he at least chooses desert islands."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At least she touched first, but I had my hand on her shoulder."
-- And he was very picturesque, at least in Gudrun's eyes, sitting soft and close on the slender red mare, whose long tail flowed on the air.
-- He knew that Hermione had a curious pleasure in treading down all the social differences, at least apparently, and he left it to her.
-- "Well " said Gudrun reluctantly, for she always hated to have her unfinished work exposed "there's nothing in the least interesting."
-- "At least my only rightness lies in the fact that I know it.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It includes kitchen and parlour, generally; but I believe at Wuthering Heights the kitchen is forced to retreat altogether into another quarter: at least I distinguished a chatter of tongues, and a clatter of culinary utensils, deep within; and I observed no signs of roasting, boiling, or baking, about the huge fireplace; nor any glitter of copper saucepans and tin cullenders on the walls.
-- Catherine's library was select, and its state of dilapidation proved it to have been well used, though not altogether for a legitimate purpose: scarcely one chapter had escaped, a pen and ink commentary at least the appearance of one covering every morsel of blank that the printer had left.
-- I did remark, to be sure, that mounting the stairs made her breathe very quick; that the least sudden noise set her all in a quiver, and that she coughed troublesomely sometimes: but I knew nothing of what these symptoms portended, and had no impulse to sympathise with her.
-- The curate might s et as many chapters as he pleased for Catherine to get by heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time I've cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfriended creatures.
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