latter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 后者的； 后一半的， 接近终了的n. 后者，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marley in his pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights and boots; the tassels on the latter bris-tling, like his pigtail, and his coat-skirts, and the hair upon his head.
-- The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come conveyed him, as before though at a different time, he thought: indeed, there seemed no order in these latter visions, save that they were in the Future into the resorts of business men, but showed him not himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- the latter whispered.
-- But for the latter inconvenience, the carriage probably would not have stopped; carriages were often known to drive on, and leave their wounded behind, and why not?
-- In the church and at the Cross, a kneeling figure or two; attendant on the latter prayers, the led cow, trying for a breakfast among the weeds at its foot.
-- The latter so received it, and remained silent.
-- The latter he was intimate with, and affectionately embraced.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the latter there may be far more poetical natures than many an ac-knowledged poet, when examined more closely, could boast of; the difference only is, that the poet possesses a better mental memory, on which account he is able to retain the 50 Andersen's Fairy Talesfeeling and the thought till they can be embodied by means of words; a faculty which the others do not possess.
-- The latter lives there still.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When on the evening that he arrived home he informed the bailiff of his plans, the latter with visible pleasure agreed with what he said so long as he was pointing out that all that had been done up to that time was stupid and useless.
-- It must be admitted that the latter case is rarely met with in practice," said the lawyer, and stealing a glance at Alexey Alexandrovitch he paused, as a man selling pistols, after enlarging on the advantages of each weapon, might await his customer's choice.
-- (These latter days she used these names almost alternately.)
-- When she was parted from him, and all this latter time when she had been feeling a fresh rush of love for him, she had pictured him as he was at four years old, when she had loved him most of all.
-- After drinking tea at the same well-to-do peasant's with whom Levin had stayed on the way to Sviazhsky's, and chatting with the women about their children, and with the old man about Count Vronsky, whom the latter praised very highly, Darya Alexandrovna, at ten o'clock, went on again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or commanding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for the sub-lieutenants get 280 pounds, brigadiers, 2,400 pounds, and generals of divisions, 4,000 pounds.
-- After this meeting, Passepartout and Fix got into the habit of chatting together, the latter making it a point to gain the worthy man's confidence.
-- Sir Francis corrected Passepartout's time, whereupon the latter made the same remark that he had done to Fix; and upon the general insisting that the watch should be regulated in each new meridian, since he was constantly going eastward, that is in the face of the sun, and therefore the days were shorter by four minutes for each degree gone over, Passepartout obstinately refused to alter his watch, which he kept at London time.
-- They hastened into the forest, followed by the soldiers, who fired a volley after the fugitives; but the latter rapidly increased the distance between them, and ere long found themselves beyond the reach of the bullets and arrows.
-- IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG, PASSEPARTOUT, AND FIX GO EACH ABOUT HIS BUSINESSThe weather was bad during the latter days of the voyage.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Within two hours the Nautilus papers vomited specials which explained that not merely had Pickerbaugh organized the greatest lesson in health ever seen, but he had also, by his courage and his power to command, saved hundreds of people from being crushed, which latter was probably the only completely accurate thing that has been said about Dr. Almus Pickerbaugh in ten thousand columns of newspaper publicity.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked repeatedly at the clerk, partly no doubt because the latter was staring persistently at him, obviously anxious to enter into conversation.
-- The latter turned round.
-- The latter glanced at it, said: 'Wait a minute,' and went on attending to the lady in mourning.
-- But allow me to ex-plain 芒聙娄' Raskolnikov put in again, still addressing Nikodim Fomitch, but trying his best to address Ilya Petrovitch also, though the latter persistently appeared to be rummag-ing among his papers and to be contemptuously oblivious of him.
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