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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Startop, being a lively, bright young fellow, and Drummle being the exact opposite, the latter was always disposed to resent him as a direct personal affront.
-- At last, the old woman and the niece came in,--the latter with a head not easily distinguishable from her dusty broom,--and testified surprise at sight of me and the fire.
-- I took the latter course and went up.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Have no fear,' said the latter to his master.
-- So he rode away, and when he reached his father, the latter was dangerously ill, and near his death.
-- He let the host have no rest, until the latter told him, that not far from thence stood a haunted castle where anyone could very easily learn what shuddering was, if he would but watch in it for three nights.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new- fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remem-ber upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.
-- He put this engine into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water- mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consult-ing it.
-- Some of the latter had already been to see me, and reported strange things of my beauty, behaviour, and good sense.
-- The latter part was altogeth-er framed in the style peculiar to that people, whereof I learned some phrases from Glumdalclitch, while she was carrying me to court.
-- The great oven is not so wide, by ten paces, as the cupola at St. Paul's: for I measured the latter on purpose, after my return.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter part of this speech was addressed to Mr. Gradgrind, who received it with a grave inclination of his head, and then remarked:'The only observation I will make to you, Jupe, in the way of influencing your decision, is, that it is highly desirable to have a sound practical education, and that even your father himself (from what I understand) appears, on your behalf, to have known and felt that much.'
-- Mr. and Miss Gradgrind being then announced, he received the former with a shake of the hand, and the latter with a kiss.
-- He was roused from the latter state by an uneasy dream of being stirred up with a boot, and also of a voice saying: 'Come, it's late.
-- He was startled when they came upon him while he was engaged in this latter pastime, and his colour changed.
-- Several coaches were rattling before them and behind them as they approached Mr. Bounderby's, and one of the latter drew up with such briskness as they were in the act of passing the house, that they looked round involuntarily.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I had been speaking, he had hoisted a new mast and sail, the latter already fluttering and waving in the breeze.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hear these details from Linley and the doctor: the latter being amused.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many years ago, it had had it in its mind to slide down sideways; it had been propped up, however, and was leaning on some half-dozen gigantic crutches: which gymnasium for the neighbouring cats, weather-stained, smoke-blackened, and overgrown with weeds, appeared in these latter days to be no very sure reliance.
-- The latter asked him, when they were alone together among the heavy shadows of the dining-room, would he have some supper?
-- The landlady, who had been at one moment thinking within herself that this was a handsome man, at another moment that this was an ill-looking man, observed the nose coming down and the moustache going up, and strongly inclined to the latter decision.
-- The latter part of the day turning out wet, they were fain to keep the house, look over Mr Meagles's collection, and beguile the time with conversation.
-- If he did not avail himself of this latter civility, it was only because he had lost the relish for it; inasmuch as he took everything else he could get, and would say at times, 'Extremely civil person, Chivery; very attentive man and very respectful.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter informs the party that she bequeths untold wealth to the young pair and an awful doom to Don Pedro, if he doesn't make them happy.
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