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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He scanned it eagerly during every short interval of clear weather.
-- Then after a few minutes' interval he proceeded more calmly.
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：
-- 'Because I received help in the interval from another source.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die.
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：
-- Chingachgook and Uncas profited by the interval to regain their wind, though Duncan contin-ued to work with the most persevering industry.
-- It was only after a sufficient interval that he shook the ashes from his pipe, replaced the toma-hawk, tightened his girdle, and arose, casting for the first time a glance in the direction of the prisoner, who stood a little behind him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 13Daniel Quilp of Tower Hill, and Sampson Brass of Bevis Marks in the city of London, Gentleman, one of her Majesty's attornies of the Courts of the King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster and a solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, slumbered on, unconscious and unsuspicious of any mischance, until a knocking on the street door, often repeated and gradually mounting up from a modest single rap to a perfect battery of knocks, fired in long discharges with a very short interval between, caused the said Daniel Quilp to struggle into a horizontal position, and to stare at the ceiling with a drowsy indifference, betokening that he heard the noise and rather wondered at the same, and couldn't be at the trouble of bestowing any further thought upon the subject.
-- These were often the commencement of a little village: and after an interval came a wheelwright's shed or perhaps a blacksmith's forge; then a thriving farm with sleepy cows lying about the yard, and horses peering over the low wall and scampering away when harnessed horses passed upon the road, as though in triumph at their freedom.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because, an interval of three hundred and sixty-five days and nights was before him; an interval which, instead of impatiently enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt; if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, Oliver and Noah had descended into the kitchen at the usual dinner -hour, to banquet upon a small joint of mutton--a pound and a half of the worst end of the neck--when Charlotte being called out of the way, there ensued a brief interval of time, which Noah Claypole, being hungry and vicious, considered he could not possibly devote to a worthier purpose than aggravating and tantalising young Oliver Twist.
-- inquired the Dodger; taking advantage of the next interval of breathlessness on the part of his friend to propound the question.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the girls, who could not listen to their cousin, and who had nothing to do but to wish for an instrument, and examine their own indifferent imi-tations of china on the mantelpiece, the interval of waiting appeared very long.
-- But not long was the interval of tranquillity; for, when supper was over, singing was talked of, and she had the mortification of seeing Mary, after very little entreaty, pre-paring to oblige the company.
-- Here, leading the way through every walk and cross walk, and scarcely allowing them an interval to utter the praises he asked for, every view was pointed out with a minuteness which left beauty en-tirely behind.
-- Fixed there by the keenest of all anguish, self-reproach, she could find no interval of ease or forgetfulness.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the interval of time while this was doing, I went out once at least every day with my gun, as well to divert myself as to see if I could kill anything fit for food; and, as near as I could, to acquaint myself with what the island produced.
-- In this interval the good advice of my father came to my mind, and presently his prediction, which I mentioned at the be-ginning of this story - viz.
-- In the interval of this operation I took up the Bible and be-gan to read; but my head was too much disturbed with the tobacco to bear reading, at least at that time; only, having opened the book casually, the first words that occurred to me were these, 'Call on Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.'
-- The perturbation of my mind during this fifteen or sixteen months' interval was very great; I slept unquietly, dreamed always frightful dreams, and often started out of my sleep in the night.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sir John called on them as soon as the next interval of fair weather that morning allowed him to get out of doors; and Marianne's accident being related to him, he was eagerly asked whether he knew any gentleman of the name of Willoughby at Allenham.
-- She blushed at this hint; but it was even visibly gratifying to her; and after a ten minutes' interval of earnest thought, she came to her sister again, and said with great good humour, "Perhaps, Elinor, it WAS rather ill-judged in me to go to Allenham; but Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; and it is a charming house, I assure you. There is one remarkably pretty sitting room up stairs; of a nice comfortable size for constant use, and with modern furniture it would be delightful.
-- As dinner was not to be ready in less than two hours from their arrival, Elinor determined to employ the interval in writing to her mother, and sat down for that purpose.
-- The effect of his discourse on the lady too, could not escape her observation, for though she was too honorable to listen, and had even changed her seat, on purpose that she might NOT hear, to one close by the piano forte on which Marianne was playing, she could not keep herself from seeing that Elinor changed colour, attended with agitation, and was too intent on what he said to pursue her employment. Still farther in confirmation of her hopes, in the interval of Marianne's turning from one lesson to another, some words of the Colonel's inevitably reached her ear, in which he seemed to be apologising for the badness of his house.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the interval which marked the preparation of the meal Carrie found time to study the flat.
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