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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile I was occupying myself in classifying my mineralogical, botanical, and zoological riches, when the accident happened to the Scotia.
-- But in the meanwhile I must seek this narwhal in the North Pacific Ocean, which, to return to France, was taking the road to the antipodes.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile the men stood in calm little groups, chatting, smoking, pretending to pay no heed to the rustling animation of the women's world.
-- Meanwhile her voice sounded out reedy and nonchalant, as she talked indifferently with Birkin and with Maxim.
-- Meanwhile the eternal trucks were rumbling on, very slowly, treading one after the other, one after the other, like a disgusting dream that has no end.
-- Meanwhile Ursula was peeping under one of the cloths.
-- Meanwhile her heart was plunging, she was almost fainting.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our natural distress, the visits of the neighbours, the arranging of the funeral, and all the work of the inn to be carried on in the meanwhile kept me so busy that I had scarcely time to think of the captain, far less to be afraid of him.
-- In the meanwhile we had been making headway at a good pace for a boat so overloaded, and we had shipped but little water in the process.
-- Meanwhile a third, running unharmed all around the house, appeared suddenly in the doorway and fell with his cutlass on the doctor.
-- Meanwhile the schooner gradually fell off and filled again upon another tack, sailed swiftly for a minute or so, and brought up once more dead in the wind's eye.
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