week是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 星期， 周，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, Ashley Wilkes and hisfather told Pa just last week that our commissioners in Washington would come to to an amicable agreement withMr. Lincoln about the Confederacy.
-- The Troop met twice a week in Jonesboro to drill and to pray for the war to begin.
-- For two years he had squired her about the County, to balls, fish fries, picnics and court days, never so often asthe Tarleton twins or Cade Calvert, never so importunate as the younger Fontaine boys, but, still, never the week wentby that Ashley did not come calling at Tara.
-- Now come, daughter, cheer up, and I'lltake you to Charleston next week to visit your Aunt Eulalie and, what with all the hullabaloo they are having over thereabout Fort Sumter, you'll be forgetting about Ashley in a week."
-- And as for poker, didn't Ashley take two hundred dollars awayfrom you just last week in Jonesboro?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
-- The Constables and the Bow Street men from London--for, this happened in the days of the extinct red-waistcoated police--were about the house for a week or two, and did pretty much what I have heard and read of like authorities doing in other such cases.
-- A tremulous uncertainty of the action of all her limbs soon became a part of her regular state, and afterwards, at intervals of two or three months, she would often put her hands to her head, and would then remain for about a week at a time in some gloomy aberration of mind.
-- It led to my remarking, with more zeal than discretion, that it came with a bad grace from him, to whom Startop had lent money in my presence but a week or so before.
-- Before a week was out, I received a note from Wemmick, dated Walworth, stating that he hoped he had made some advance in that matter appertaining to our private and personal capacities, and that he would be glad if I could come and see him again upon it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything went right for a week or two, and then Dame Ilsabill said, 'Husband, there is not near room enough for us in this cottage; the courtyard and the garden are a great deal too small; I should like to have a large stone castle to 50 Grimms' Fairy Taleslive in: go to the fish again and tell him to give us a castle.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, so far have you been from answering my ex-pectation in any of your letters; that on the contrary you are loading our carrier every week with libels, and keys, and reflections, and memoirs, and second parts; wherein I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk; of de-grading human nature (for so they have still the confidence to style it), and of abusing the female sex.
-- There could not be few-er than thirty persons with their wives and children (for the country is very populous;) and my master demanded the rate of a full room whenever he showed me at home, al-though it were only to a single family; so that for some time I had but little ease every day of the week (except Wednes-day, which is their Sabbath,) although I were not carried to the town.
-- I began last week to permit my wife to sit at dinner with me, at the farthest end of a long table; and to answer (but with the utmost brevity) the few questions I asked her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is not coming down to the country house for a week or so, being due somewhere else.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once we had fed on bits and scraps for a week while he sorted some curiosities.
-- An hour after leaving the wood of olives, we reached the fort of San Vicenza, where Hans demanded the price of his thirteenth week of service.
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：
-- For the first week or so, Mrs Bolton, however, was very quiet at Wragby, her assured, bossy manner left her, and she was nervous.
-- 'My game-keeper to boot, and I pay him two pounds a week and give him a house.'
-- 'Pay him!What do you think you pay for, with two pounds a week and a house?'
-- 'Bah!I would tell you to keep your two pounds a week and your house.'
-- So if you go to Venice, there's temptation removed for a week or two, at least.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the large, hard-featured clock on the sideboard, which he used to see bending its figured brows upon him with a savage joy when he was behind-hand with his lessons, and which, when it was wound up once a week with an iron handle, used to sound as if it were growling in ferocious anticipation of the miseries into which it would bring him.
-- Little more than a week ago at Marseilles, the face of the pretty girl from whom he had parted with regret, had had an unusual interest for him, and a tender hold upon him, because of some resemblance, real or imagined, to this first face that had soared out of his gloomy life into the bright glories of fancy.
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