interval是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 间隔的时间, 间隔, 间歇，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.
-- After an interval I arose, and as if by instinct, crawled into the room where the corpse of my beloved lay.
-- My manner as I thus ad-dressed him was impressive but calm; I had formed in my own heart a resolution to pursue my destroyer to death, and this purpose quieted my agony and for an interval recon-ciled me to life.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And after an interval a tall black boy of their own age ran breathlessly around thehouse and out toward the tethered horses.
-- There was a brief interval ofwhispering, and Pork entered, his usual dignity gone, his eyes rolling and his teeth a-gleam.
-- In this interval between the morning party and the evening's ball, they seemed a placid, peaceful lot.
-- Then there would have been a decorous interval of a year or at least six months.
-- After an interval of silent sewing, they heard sounds outside and, peering through the curtains, they saw Dr.Meade alighting from his horse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Pumblechook added, after a short interval of reflection, "Look at Pork alone.
-- The soldiers were in front of us, extending into a pretty wide line with an interval between man and man.
-- To which I replied, after a long interval of reflection, "I don't know."
-- The interval between that time and supper Wemmick devoted to showing me his collection of curiosities.
-- After an interval of suspense on my part that was quite enthralling and almost painful, I saw his hand appear on the other side of Miss Skiffins.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, Mrs. Sparsit, who had improved the interval by touching up her cap, took her classical features down-stairs again, and entered the board-room in the manner of a Roman matron going outside the city walls to treat with an invading general.
-- Apparently so long an interval ensued with the men at the windlass standing idle, that some women shrieked that another accident had happened!But the surgeon who held the watch, declared five minutes not to have elapsed yet, and sternly admonished them to keep silence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, after another interval of successorship to Mrs Bangham, he found a pursuit for himself, and announced it.
-- The tea-table was drawn up near the sofa, with a small interval between it and Mrs Clennam's own particular table.
-- This last week was, in truth, an uneasy interval for the whole house.
-- The interval had been short, but he had greatly complained of its length, and had been imperious with Mr Rugg touching the delay.
-- Miss Fanny and Mr Tip required no direction in making an appearance of great fashion and elegance; and the three passed this interval together at the best hotel in the neighbourhood though truly, as Miss Fanny said, the best was very indifferent.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then placed the first bench lengthwise along the only clear space against the wall, leaving a little interval between, for my back to settle down in.
-- But the interval I spent in deliberating what to say, was a fatal one.
-- Nor is it to be gainsaid, that in some of these instances it has been declared that the interval of time between the two assaults could not have exceeded very many days.
-- For there and then, for several consecutive years, Moby Dick had been periodically descried, lingering in those waters for awhile, as the sun, in its annual round, loiters for a predicted interval in any one sign of the Zodiac.
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