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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally we stopped and sat panting on two rocks, while we watched him disappearing in the distance.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, although there's comparative peace at home at present, the storm will break if anything is finally settled tonight.'
-- 'It's a present from herself to him,' said Varia; 'the ques-tion is to be finally decided this evening.'
-- And now she turns up again like this, when I thought she had finally disappeared!Where's Rogo-jin all this time?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally he marched up the steps, and was seen by Mr. Huxter to turn to the left and open the door of the parlour.
-- Finally he expressed himself satisfied.
-- Finally all the chairs were turned up on to the counters, leaving the floor clear.
-- Finally I went to sleep in a heap of down quilts, very warm and comfortable.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
-- Finally they did; and so we lost the yacht.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length the sun set in a flood of glory, behind the distant western hills, and as dark-ness drew its veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminished; the last light finally disappeared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deep-er shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, and a silence soon pervaded the camp, as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed.
-- After a few minutes of earnest and solemn dialogue, altogether different from the noisy clamor with which they had first collected about the spot, the sounds grew fainter and more distant, and finally were lost in the depths of the forest.
-- For several miles in this direction, the moun-tains appeared reluctant to yield their dominion, but within reach of the eye they diverged, and finally melted into the level and sandy lands, across which we have accompanied our adventurers in their double journey.
-- The silence was finally broken by the aged warrior so often named.
-- The scout heard them attentively, but im-patiently, and finally closed the discussion, by answering, in a tone that instantly silenced Alice, while it told Heyward how fruitless any further remonstrances would be.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true, an old farmer, who had been down to New York on a visit several years after, and from whom this account of the ghostly adventure was received, brought home the intelligence that Ichabod Crane was still alive; that he had left the neighborhood partly through fear of the goblin and Hans Van Ripper, and partly in mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the heiress; that he had changed his quarters to a distant part of the country; had kept school and studied law at the same time; had been admitted to the bar; turned politician; electioneered; written for the news-papers; and finally had been made a justice of the ten pound court.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And presently Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz produced the work which finally set at rest the misgivings of all lovers of art.
-- Finally it occurred to me that I would call as though nothing had happened, and send a message in by the maid asking Mrs. Strickland if it was convenient for her to see me.
-- Finally I gave him a draught, and he sank into uneasy slumber.
-- Finally he was elected to a position on the staff, and his career was assured.
-- It seemed to me that here Strickland had finally put the whole expression of himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, two minutes later, it reproached obliquely, and finally fell on a sandy beach, out of the reach of the waves.
-- The ladder was finally fixed on the 28th of May.
-- Between the place occupied by the colonists and the other side of the immense bay, the shore was composed, first, of a tract of low land, bordered in the background by trees; then the shore became more irregular, projecting sharp points into the sea, and finally ended in the black rocks which, accumulated in picturesque disorder, formed Claw Cape.
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