finally是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 最后， 最终； 决定性地，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：
-- On this point he was finally and abso-lutely fixed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, Madame Rigaud, in an access of fury that I must ever deplore, threw herself upon me with screams of passion (no doubt those that were overheard at some distance), tore my clothes, tore my hair, lacerated my hands, trampled and trod the dust, and finally leaped over, dashing herself to death upon the rocks below.
-- Finally said Captain Maroon, when that wouldn't suit either, 'Hand over, then!
-- As the room-ridden invalid settled for the night, these would gradually disappear: Mistress Affery's magnified shadow always flitting about, last, until it finally glided away into the air, as though she were off upon a witch excursion.
-- More afraid of her husband at the moment than of the mysterious sound in the kitchen, Affery crept away as lightly and as quickly as she could, descended the kitchen stairs almost as rapidly as she had ascended them, resumed her seat before the fire, tucked up her skirt again, and finally threw her apron over her head.
-- 'That is to say,' said Arthur, with a growing admiration of his quiet companion, 'you are not finally discouraged even now?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the sec-ond Saturday after Jo got out of the window, Meg, as she sat sewing at her window, was scandalized by the sight of Lau-rie chasing Jo all over the garden and finally capturing her in Amy's bower.
-- While apparently absorbed in her own affairs, Jo watched Beth, and after many conflicting conjectures, finally settled upon one which seemed to explain the change in her.
-- When little Vladimir finally relinquished her, with assurances that he was 'desolated to leave so early', she was ready to rest, and see how her recreant knight had borne his punishment.
-- Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer.
-- She wondered what the business was that brought Mr. Bhaer to the city, and finally decided that he had been ap-pointed to some great honor, somewhere, but had been too modest to mention the fact.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As sinful men, it is a lesson to us all, because it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.
-- Rising from a little cabin-boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief-mate, and captain, and finally a ship owner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income.
-- This relieved me; and once more, and finally as it seemed to me, I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.
-- And with these cracked words he finally departed, leaving me, for the moment, in no small wonderment at his frantic impudence.
-- So that in many cases such a panic did he finally strike, that few who by those rumors, at least, had heard of the White Whale, few of those hunters were willing to encounter the perils of his jaw.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What was Oliver's horror and alarm as he stood a few paces off, looking on with his eyelids as wide open as they would possibly go, to see the Dodger plunge his hand into the old gentleman's pocket, and draw from thence a handkerchief!To see him hand the same to Charley Bates; and finally to behold them, both running away round the corner at full speed!
-- Finally the treaty was entered into; and the parties thereunto sat down to wait, with some impatience, until Oliver should awake.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself; and the agree-able manner in which he immediately fell into conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, made her feel that the commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
-- This matter may be considered, therefore, as finally settled.'
-- His own father did not long survive mine, and within half a year from these events, Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me that, having finally resolved against taking orders, he hoped I should not think it unreasonable for him to expect some more immediate pecuniary advantage, in lieu of the pre-ferment, by which he could not be benefited.
-- But against this there were objections; and she finally resolved that it could be the last resource, if her private inquiries to the ab-sence of the family were unfavourably answered.
-- The vague and un-settled suspicions which uncertainty had produced of what Mr. Darcy might have been doing to forward her sister's match, which she had feared to encourage as an exertion of goodness too great to be probable, and at the same time dreaded to be just, from the pain of obligation, were proved beyond their greatest extent to be true!He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet, frequently meet, reason with, persuade, and finally bribe, the man whom he always most wished to avoid, and whose very name it was punishment to him to pronounce.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It gave to his intentions whatever of decision was wanting before; and he finally resolved, that it would be absolutely unnecessary, if not highly indecorous, to do more for the widow and children of his father, than such kind of neighbourly acts as his own wife pointed out.
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