while是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为conj. 当…的时候; 而; 虽然; 尽管n. 一会儿,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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Liddy chose a position at her elbow and began to sew, sometimes pausing and looking round, or, with the air of a privileged person, taking up one of the half-sovereigns lying before her and surveying it merely as a work of art, while strictly preventing her countenance from expressing any wish to possess it as money.
-- She was married to a poor medical man, and soon after an infant was born; and while money was forthcoming all went on well.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Vauquer's cat appears, announcing the near approach of his mistress, and jumps upon the sideboards to sniff at the milk in the bowls, each protected by a plate, while he purrs his morning greeting to the world.
-- Vauquer herself occupying the least important, while the rest were let to a Mme.
-- Vauquer exhausted the vocabulary of abuse, and failed to find words that did justice to the banker's iniquitous conduct; but while they heaped execrations on the millionaire, Victorine's words were as gentle as the moan of the wounded dove, and affection found expression even in the cry drawn from her by pain.
-- Or, once more, there are other mercenary natures who never do a kindness to a friend or a relation simply because these have a claim upon them, while a service done to a stranger brings its reward to self-love.
-- While they were at dinner that evening, Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy which otherwise he would command.
-- This manuscript will doubtless afford you the greatest pleasure; but to me, who know him and who hear it from his own lips with what interest and sympathy shall I read it in some future day!Even now, as I commence my task, his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness; I see his thin hand raised in animation, while the lineaments of his face are irradiated by the soul within.
-- My mother's tender caresses and my father's smile of benevolent plea-sure while regarding me are my first recollections.
-- With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the be-ing to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.
-- When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they 27passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Tom and us left home early this morning beforeshe got up, and Tom's laying out over at the Fontaines' while we came over here."
-- She was hot-tempered and easily plagued bythe frequent scrapes of her four sons, and while no one was permitted to whip a horse or a slave, she felt that a licknow and then didn't do the boys any harm.
-- They had sorely missed the excitement of the drills while away, and they counted education well lost if only they couldride and yell and shoot off rifles in the company of their friends.
-- But, look, youimpudent black fool, if you put on any airs in front of the Wynder darkies and hint that we all the time have friedchicken and ham, while they don't have nothing but rabbit and possum, I'll I'll tell Ma.
-- Andthen, in a wheedling tone: "When I was mentioning the Tarletons the while ago, I wasn't pushing them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When the church came to itself,--for he was so sudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple under my feet,--when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling while he ate the bread ravenously.
-- By this time, my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him, while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.
-- On this particular evening the urgency of my case demanded a pint of this mixture, which was poured down my throat, for my greater comfort, while Mrs. Joe held my head under her arm, as a boot would be held in a bootjack.
-- While Mrs. Joe sat with her head bending over her needlework, I put my mouth into the forms of saying to Joe, "What's a convict?"
-- Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So he said, 'Yes,' and forgot the fox's counsel, and sat down on the side of the river; and while he suspect-ed nothing, they came behind, and threw him down the bank, and took the princess, the horse, and the bird, and went home to the king their master, and said.
-- A long while after, he went to walk one day in the wood, and the old fox met him, and besought him with tears in his eyes to kill him, and cut off his head and feet.
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