meanwhile是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 其时， 其间ad. 当时， 与此同时，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meanwhile the lame horse recovered so fast, that the party to Box Hill was again under happy consideration; and at last Donwell was settled for one day, and Box Hill for the next, the weather appearing exactly right.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was recognized by all as the conclusion of some gloomy speech which had been expressed in thought alone during the shake of the head; Henery meanwhile retained several marks of despair upon his face, to imply that they would be required for use again directly he should go on speaking.
-- Meanwhile the faint cloudlets had flown back into the south-east corner of the sky, as if in terror of the large cloud, like a young brood gazed in upon by some monster.
-- "We may," added Mark Clark, emphatically, at once drinking himself, to run no further risk of losing his chance by the event alluded to, Jan meanwhile merging his additional thoughts of to-morrow in a song: To-mor-row, to-mor-row!And while peace and plen-ty I find at my board, With a heart free from sick-ness and sor-row,With my friends will I share what to-day may af-ford, And let them spread the ta-ble to-mor-row.
-- Meanwhile the early and the late summer brought round the week in which Greenhill Fair was held.
-- Meanwhile Troy had added a few touches to his ordinary make-up for the character, the more effectually to disguise himself, and though he had felt faint qualms on first entering, the metamorphosis effected by judiciously "lining" his face with a wire rendered him safe from the eyes of Bathsheba and her men.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile Clerval occupied himself, so to speak, with the moral relations of things.
-- 'In the meanwhile also the black ground was covered with herbage, and the green banks interspersed with in-numerable flowers, sweet to the scent and the eyes, stars of pale radiance among the moonlight woods; the sun became warmer, the nights clear and balmy; and my nocturnal ram-bles were an extreme pleasure to me, although they were considerably shortened by the late setting and early ris-ing of the sun, for I never ventured abroad during daylight, fearful of meeting with the same treatment I had formerly endured in the first village which I entered.
-- Or (so my fond fancy imaged) some accident might meanwhile occur to destroy him and put an end to my slavery forever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would all come out in good time, I observed, and in the meanwhile nothing was to be said, save that I had come into great expectations from a mysterious patron.
-- Chapter LVIINow that I was left wholly to myself, I gave notice of my intention to quit the chambers in the Temple as soon as my tenancy could legally determine, and in the meanwhile to underlet them.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door.
-- Meanwhile the miser crept out of the bush half-naked and in a piteous plight, and began to ponder how he should take his revenge, and serve his late companion some trick.
-- The bird took its flight to a dark wood and remained there for a long time, and meanwhile the parents could hear nothing of their child.
-- Meanwhile he had gone outside again and mount-ed his horse and thrown off the cloak.
-- Meanwhile the princess was eagerly waiting till her de-liverer should come back; and had a road made leading up to her palace all of shining gold; and told her courtiers that whoever came on horseback, and rode straight up to the 295gate upon it, was her true lover; and that they must let him in: but whoever rode on one side of it, they must be sure was not the right one; and that they must send him away at once.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile the marriage was appointed to be solemnized in eight weeks' time, and Mr. Bounderby went every evening to Stone Lodge as an accepted wooer.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile you just lived on and there was nothing to it.
-- Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast inter-laced intricacy of her body.
-- Meanwhile the back of Clifford's head was held sleek and motionless, just in front of them.
-- Meanwhile the Venus of Stacks Gate is established in the cottage, which she claims is her home, and Apollo, ap-parently, is domiciled in Tevershall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile Flora was murmuring in rapid snatches for his ear, that there was a time and that the past was a yawning gulf however and that a golden chain no longer bound him and that she revered the memory of the late Mr F. and that she should be at home to-morrow at half-past one and that the decrees of Fate were beyond recall and that she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray's-Inn Gardens at exactly four o'clock in the afternoon.
-- 'Mrs Finching has been telling me, sir,' said Arthur, after making his acknowledgments; the relict of the late Mr F. meanwhile protesting, with a gesture, against his use of that respectable name; 'that she hopes occasionally to employ the young needlewoman you recommended to my mother.
-- Meanwhile Mr Pancks, looking, not without some pity, at Young John, slowly and thoughtfully twisted up his canvas bag as if he were wringing its neck.
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