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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- the latter asked, gruffly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she came to herself, or when Miss Betsey had restored her,whichever it was, she found the latter standing at the window.
-- I glanced at the latter deferentially as he stood lookingout of window.
-- A good shop for the latter was in the Strand-somewhere in that part which has been rebuilt since.
-- The latter and I would have gone out to fly the great kite; but that Ihad still no other clothes than the anything but ornamentalgarments with which I had been decorated on the first day, andwhich confined me to the house, except for an hour after dark,when my aunt, for my health's sake, paraded me up and down onthe cliff outside before going to bed.
-- Miss Murdstone, during the latter portion of the contest, haddismounted, and was now waiting with her brother at the bottomof the steps until my aunt should be at leisure to receive them.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed an unnecessary caution; Jane was wanting to give her words, not to Mrs. Elton, but to Miss Woodhouse, as the latter plainly saw.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the side of the latter a steaming bran-mash stood in a bucket.
-- The forward ewes were kept apart from those among which the fall of lambs would be later, there being two hundred of the latter class in Gabriel's flock.
-- There was room for a little pity, also for a very little exultation: the former at his position, the latter at her own.
-- "'Tis a pity that playing the flute should make a man look such a scarecrow," observed Mr. Mark Clark, with additional criticism of Gabriel's countenance, the latter person jerking out, with the ghastly grimace required by the instrument, the chorus of "Dame Durden:" 'Twas Moll' and Bet', and Doll' and Kate',And Dor'-othy Drag'-gle Tail'.
-- That the latter was of the smallest magnitude compatible with its existence at all, Boldwood, of course, did not know.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a skilful, thrifty workman, sufficiently enterprising to buy his master's business when the latter fell a chance victim to the disturbances of 1789.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall depart for the latter town in a fortnight or three weeks; and my intention is to hire a ship there, which can easily be done by paying the insurance for the owner, and to engage as many sailors as I think necessary among those who are accustomed to the whale-fishing.
-- If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been introduced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimeri-34 Frankensteincal, while those of the former were real and practical, under such circumstances I should certainly have thrown Agrip-pa aside and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies.
-- Under the guidance of my new preceptors I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life; but the latter soon obtained my undivided attention.
-- Summer passed away in these occupations, and my re-turn to Geneva was fixed for the latter end of autumn; but being delayed by several accidents, winter and snow arrived, the roads were deemed impassable, and my journey was re-tarded until the ensuing spring.
-- He quickly arranged with the Turk that if the latter should find a favourable opportunity for escape before Felix could return to Italy, Safie should remain as a boarder at a con-vent at Leghorn; and then, quitting the lovely Arabian, he hastened to Paris and delivered himself up to the vengeance of the law, hoping to free De Lacey and Agatha by this pro-ceeding.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These latter young men were as anxious to fight the Yankees, should war come, as were their richer neighbors;but the delicate question of money arose.
-- It was for the latter reason thathe was barely on speaking terms with his sister, Miss Pittypat From childhood, they had been exact opposites intemperament and they had been further estranged by his objections to the manner in which she had reared Charles "Making a damn sissy out of a soldier's son!"
-- The latter in itself was enough to attract attentionto him, for the uniforms of the soldiers were dingy and worn now and the civilians, even when turned out in their best,showed skillful patching and darning.
-- There was a nibble of the tough old bird foreach, an adequate amount of dressing made of corn meal and seasoned with onions, a bowl of dried peas, and plenty ofrice and gravy, the latter somewhat watery, for there was no flour with which to thicken it For dessert, there was asweet potato pie followed by Rhett's bonbons, and when Rhett produced real Havana cigars for the gentlemen to enjoyover their glass of blackberry wine, everyone agreed it was indeed a Lucullan banquet When the gentlemen joined the ladies on the front porch, the talk turned to war.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sarah Pocket and Georgiana contended who should remain last; but Sarah was too knowing to be outdone, and ambled round Georgiana with that artful slipperiness that the latter was obliged to take precedence.
-- Although the only coherent part of the latter piece of literature were the opening lines.
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