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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He studied it carefully and minutely for a long time, and finally declared his opinion that no other interpretation of it was possible.
-- They had long since said to themselves that the question of their father's deliverance was about to be finally settled.
-- During that day, their departure was finally arranged; they resolved to reach Melbourne without delay.
-- Here the violence of the surf, as well as the unfriendly attitude of the natives, prevented his obtaining water, and he finally quitted these shores, giving them the name Staten-land or the Land of the States, in honor of the States-General.
-- The ladies were carried to land without wetting a fold of their dresses, and soon the whole party, with their arms and provisions, were finally landed on these much dreaded New Zealand shores.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had the prosaic finding of the coroner not finally put an end to the romantic stories which have been whispered in connection with the affair, it might have been difficult to find a tenant for Baskerville Hall.
-- I followed the footsteps down the Yew Alley, I saw the spot at the moor-gate where he seemed to have wait-ed, I remarked the change in the shape of the prints after that point, I noted that there were no other footsteps save those of Barrymore on the soft gravel, and finally I carefully examined the body, which had not been touched until my arrival.
-- This matter cuts very deep, and though I have not finally made up my mind whether it is a benevolent or a malevolent agency which is in touch with us, I am conscious always of power and de-sign.
-- Finally Stapleton turned upon his heel and beckoned in a peremptory way to his sister, who, af-ter an irresolute glance at Sir Henry, walked off by the side of her brother.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After very little farther discourse, it was finally settled that the invitation should be fully accepted.
-- Is every thing finally settled?
-- The name of Willoughby, John Willoughby, frequently repeated, first caught my attention; and what followed was a positive assertion that every thing was now finally settled respecting his marriage with Miss Grey it was no longer to be a secret it would take place even within a few weeks, with many particulars of preparations and other matters.
-- He was giving orders for a toothpick-case for himself, and till its size, shape, and ornaments were determined, all of which, after examining and debating for a quarter of an hour over every toothpick-case in the shop, were finally arranged by his own inventive fancy, he had no leisure to bestow any other attention on the two ladies, than what was comprised in three or four very broad stares; a kind of notice which served to imprint on Elinor the remembrance of a person and face, of strong, natural, sterling insignificance, though adorned in the first style of fashion.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally he jumped up and handed the child to his wife.
-- She concluded by thanking him for his kindness in a crude way, then puzzled over the formality of signing her name, and finally decided upon the severe, winding up with a "Very truly," which she subsequently changed to "Sincerely."
-- She walked east along Van Buren Street through a region of lessening importance, until it deteriorated into a mass of shanties and coal-yards, and finally verged upon the river.
-- Carrie finally decided that she would give the money back.
-- She walked on and on, and finally did go into one place, with the old result.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, then, there he was, slim and handsome, and dressed the gaudiest and prettiest you ever saw, and he lit into that horse with his whip and made him fairly hum and finally skipped off, and made his bow and danced off to the dressing-room, and everybody just a-howling with pleasure and astonishment.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And growing angrier each moment, they went from words to blows, and finally began to scratch and bite and slap each other.
-- After a hard race of almost an hour, tired and out of breath, Pinocchio finally reached the door of the cottage and knocked.
-- He walked impatiently to and fro and finally turned his nose toward the Field of Wonders.
-- He became terribly frightened and, running as fast as he could, he finally came to the spot where it had once stood.
-- Finally a little woman went by carrying two water jugs.
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