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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And meanwhile he notices and remembers everything.
-- Meanwhile there is a tragedy in the house.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- Meanwhile Ulysses reached Chryse with the hecatomb.
-- Meanwhile Iris went to Helen in the form of her sister-in-law, wife of the son of Antenor, for Helicaon, son of Antenor, had married Laodice, the fairest of Priam's daughters.
-- Meanwhile the heralds were bringing the holy oath-of-ferings through the city two lambs and a goatskin of wine, the gift of earth; and Idaeus brought the mixing bowl and the cups of gold.
-- Meanwhile the two hosts lifted up their hands and prayed saying, 'Father Jove, that rulest from Ida, most glorious in power, grant that he who first brought about this war between us may die, and enter the house of Hades, while we others remain at peace and abide by our oaths.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eyes meanwhile were at liberty to examine Mr. Marvel's dusty figure, and the books beside him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile the sailors progressed rapidly with the task of unshipping the packages and caged animals.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile he had never ceased to work at his art; but, soon tiring of the studios, entirely by himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meanwhile Captain Harding was rejoined by a servant who was devoted to him in life and in death.
-- Meanwhile Grant continued his energetic operations.
-- Meanwhile the night advanced, and it was perhaps two hours from morning, when Pencroft, then sound asleep, was vigorously shaken.
-- Meanwhile the cold became very severe, and unhappily they had no means of defending themselves from it.
-- Meanwhile Captain Harding had made no reply.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile you shall have a little taste of something that'll do you good, for I'm sure you must want it after all you've gone through to-day.
-- Meanwhile the dog in disgrace ground hard at the organ, sometimes in quick time, sometimes in slow, but never leaving off for an instant.
-- Then, Mr Brass left off writing entirely, and, with his pen in his hand, hummed his very loudest; shaking his head meanwhile from side to side, like a man whose whole soul was in the music, and smiling in a manner quite seraphic.
-- To all these rambling observations, Mr Swiveller answered not one word, but, returning for the aquatic jacket, rolled it into a tight round ball: looking steadily at Brass meanwhile as if he had some intention of bowling him down with it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile Nekhludoff put on his pince-nez and examined the prisoners while they were questioned.
-- Meanwhile he already felt in the depth of his soul all the cruelty, dastardliness and baseness not only of that act of his, but of his whole idle, dissolute, cruel and wayward life.
-- Meanwhile Kolosoff was energetically and loudly discussing the article against trial by jury which had roused his indignation.
-- "I will wait for the next train, throw myself under the wheels, and that will end it all," Katiousha was meanwhile thinking, not heeding the girl.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Gnat amused itself meanwhile by humming round and round her head: at last it settled again and remarked, 'I suppose you don't want to lose your name?'
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