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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile the DUNCAN was speeding on at a frightful rate.
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：
-- Meanwhile we left Lestrade in possession of the house while Holmes and I went back with the baronet to Baskerville Hall.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, I meanwhile had borrowed twenty-five roubles from a friend, and off I went to Pskoff to my aunt's.
-- Gavrila Ardalionovitch meanwhile seemed to be trying to recall something.
-- Meanwhile you, Gania, just look over these accounts, will you?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little Dorrit in the meanwhile had been waiting to go, but afraid to disturb her by moving.
-- Bishop seemed to like his own way of putting the case very much, and rather dwelt upon it; Bar, meanwhile (not to throw away a jury-man), making a show of sitting at his feet and feeding on his precepts.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile she lay on her bed with old Joanna at her side, for even in her wanderings she did not forget her forlorn protege.
-- Laurie meanwhile posted off to comfort Amy, and told his story so well that Aunt March actually 'sniffed' herself, and never once said 'I told you so".
-- Meg meanwhile had apparently forgotten the matter and was absorbed in preparations for her father's return, but all of a sudden a change seemed to come over her, and, for a day or two, she was quite unlike herself.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way.
-- Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be looking out at the storm from the casement, he never heeded my presence, never troubled himself with so much as a single glance; but appeared wholly occupied with counting the pages of the marvellous book.
-- Meanwhile Captain Bildad sat earnestly and steadfastly eyeing Queequeg, and at last rising solemnly and fumbling in the huge pockets of his broad-skirted drab coat, took out a bundle of tracts, and selecting one entitled "The Latter Day Coming; or No Time to Lose," placed it in Queequeg's hands, and then grasping them and the book with both his, looked earnestly into his eyes, and said, "Son of darkness, I must do my duty by thee; I am part owner of this ship, and feel concerned for the souls of all its crew; if thou still clingest to thy Pagan ways, which I sadly fear, I beseech thee, remain not for aye a Belial bondsman.
-- Meanwhile Captain Ahab remained invisibly enshrined within his cabin.
-- While the mate was getting the hammer, Ahab, without speaking, was slowly rubbing the gold piece against the skirts of his jacket, as if to heighten its lustre, and without using any words was meanwhile lowly humming to himself, producing a sound so strangely muffled and inarticulate that it seemed the mechanical humming of the wheels of his vitality in him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next day, (the family having been meanwhile relieved with a half-quartern loaf and a piece of cheese, left with them by Mr. Bumble himself,) Oliver and his master returned to the miserable abode; where Mr. Bumble had already arrived, accompanied by four men from the workhouse, who were to act as bearers.
-- Meanwhile Oliver was in such a desperate state of impatience and anxiety, that he felt as if he could have jumped upon the horse himself, and galloped away, full tear, to the next stage.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next was in these words: 'I do not pretend to regret anything I shall leave in Hertfordshire, except your society, my dear-est friend; but we will hope, at some future period, to enjoy many returns of that delightful intercourse we have known, and in the meanwhile may lessen the pain of separation by a very frequent and most unreserved correspondence.
-- An hour, however, saw the whole completed; and Mr. Gardiner meanwhile having settled his account at the inn, nothing remained to be done but to go; and Elizabeth, after all the misery of the morn-ing, found herself, in a shorter space of time than she could have supposed, seated in the carriage, and on the road to Longbourn.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meanwhile Hurstwood encountered a humorous item concerning a stranger who had arrived in the city and became entangled with a bunco-steerer.
-- Meanwhile he gave a thought now and then to Carrie.
-- Meanwhile he had not sent the money.
-- Meanwhile their own show closed May 5th.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And meanwhile his hunger grew and grew.
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