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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stranger had left his hat in Mr Witherden's room, and seemed to have established himself in this short interval on quite a friendly footing.
-- The cold sharp interval between night and morning the distant streak of light widening and spreading, and turning from grey to white, and from white to yellow, and from yellow to burning red the presence of day, with all its cheerfulness and life men and horses at the plough birds in the trees and hedges, and boys in solitary fields, frightening them away with rattles.
-- Wide as the interval between them was, however, they became rivals too soon.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the interval between early and late mass Nekhludoff left the church.
-- Then came another interval of silence, followed by more abuse.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After an interval the Psychologist had an inspiration.
-- So I don't think any of us said very much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next, though its odd potentialities ran, no doubt, in most of our minds: its plausibility, that is, its practical incredibleness, the curious possibilities of anachronism and of utter confusion it suggested.
-- What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness, and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful?
-- Then, think how narrow the gap between a negro and a white man of our own times, and how wide the interval between myself and these of the Golden Age!I was sensible of much which was unseen, and which contributed to my comfort; but save for a general impression of automatic organisation, I fear I can convey very little of the difference to your mind.
-- The moon was on the wane: each night there was a longer interval of darkness.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cannon-shot was followed after a considerable interval by a volley of small arms.
-- Well, so short had been the interval that when I found my feet again all was in the same posture, the fellow with the red night-cap still half-way over, another still just showing his head above the top of the stockade.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this extraordinary creature could transport itself from one place to another with surprising velocity; as, in an interval of three days, the Governor Higginson and the Columbus had observed it at two different points of the chart, separated by a distance of more than seven hundred nautical leagues.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced, and filled up an interval of silence by attempting to caress the canine mother, who had left her nursery, and was sneaking wolfishly to the back of my legs, her lip curled up, and her white teeth watering for a snatch.
-- It is strange,' I began, in the interval of swallowing one cup of tea and receiving another 'it is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world as you spend, Mr. Heathcliff; yet, I'll venture to say, that, surrounded by your family, and with your amiable lady as the presiding genius over your home and heart My amiable lady!'
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