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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter allowed it to come within half a cable's length; then, as if disdaining to dive, it took a little turn, and stopped a short distance off.
-- The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress.
-- The latter stopped walking and directed his glass towards the place indicated.
-- The latter came now and then to the surface to breathe.
-- To the conglomerate and trachyte succeeded black basalt, the first dispread in layers full of bubbles, the latter forming regular prisms, placed like a colonnade supporting the spring of the immense vault, an admirable specimen of natural architecture.
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：
-- The latter took up a large, curved conch shell, that lay on a shelf, and without reference to anybody, blew a shattering blast.
-- He was looking at the white legs of Gerald, as the latter sat on the side of the bed in his shirt.
-- That which he affirms and loves one day a little latter he turns on it in a fury of destruction.
-- Gerald did not heed the latter part of this speech.
-- The latter was ashamed, and selfconscious.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter had never been under drawn: its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a frame of wood laden with oatcakes and clusters of legs of beef, mutton, and ham, concealed it.
-- His treatment of the latter was enough to make a fiend of a saint.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter stood in several places as much as a foot or a foot and a half above the surface of the sand.
-- Have I lived this many years, and a son of a rum puncheon cock his hat athwart my hawse at the latter end of it?
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