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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Glenarvan examined them attentively for a few minutes, turning them over on all sides, holding them up to the light, and trying to decipher the least scrap of writing, while the others looked on with anxious eyes.
-- "To get to Dunbarton as quickly as possible, John; and Lady Helena will return to Malcolm Castle, while I go on to London and lay this document before the Admiralty."
-- His kindheartedness was even greater than his generosity, for the one knew no bounds, while the other, of necessity, had its limits.
-- And yet he was not a man behind the times, and there was nothing little or narrow-minded about him; but while always keeping open his ancestral county to progress, he was a true Scotchman at heart, and it was for the honor of Scotland that he competed in the yacht races of the Royal Thames Yacht Club.
-- All the while his sister was speaking, he gazed at her with wide-open eyes, only knowing now how much she had done and suffered for him; and, as she ended, he flung himself on her neck, and exclaimed, "Oh, mamma!My dear little mamma!"
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：
-- When they had brought her to the Hall the maiden was placed in an upper chamber, while Hugo and his friends sat down to a long carouse, as was their nightly custom.
-- And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.
-- You may have ob-served that I twice strolled over to the window while Dr. Mortimer was reading his legend.'
-- That means that while they are, as we have seen, very anxious to watch him, they are equally anxious that he should not see them.
-- 'In that case the waiter must have placed it there while we were lunching.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All of them seemed weary, and most of them had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their com- plexions generally appeared to have taken on the colour of the fog outside.
-- He wore a large fur or rather astra-chan overcoat, which had kept him warm all night, while his neighbour had been obliged to bear the full severity of a Russian November night entirely unprepared.
-- 'Of course I can't argue the matter, because I know only my own case; but my doctor gave me money and he had very little to pay my jour-ney back, besides having kept me at his own expense, while there, for nearly two years.'
-- observed the clerk, while his face assumed an expression of great deference and servil-ity if not of absolute alarm: 'what, a son of that very Semen Rogojin hereditary honourable citizen who died a month or so ago and left two million and a half of roubles?'
-- I ran away from my father and came to Pskoff to my aunt's house, where I caved in at once with fever, and he went and died while I was away.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Achilles answered, 'Fear not, but speak as it is borne in upon you from heaven, for by Apollo, Calchas, to whom you pray, and whose oracles you reveal to us, not a Dan-aan at our ships shall lay his hand upon you, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth no, not though you name Agamemnon himself, who is by far the foremost of the Achaeans.'
-- Are you to keep your own prize, while I sit tamely under my loss and give up the girl at your bidding?
-- While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its scab-bard, Minerva came down from heaven (for Juno had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her.
-- With this the son of Peleus dashed his gold-bestudded sceptre on the ground and took his seat, while the son of Atreus was beginning fiercely from his place upon the other side.
-- The son of Peleus went back to his tents and ships with the son of Menoetius and his company, while Agamemnon drew a vessel into the water and chose a crew of twenty oarsmen.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hall lit the fire and left him there while she went to prepare him a meal with her own hands.
-- And while she herself finished mixing the mustard, she gave Millie a few verbal stabs for her excessive slowness.
-- She had cooked the ham and eggs, laid the table, and done everything, while Millie (help indeed!)
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, while Geppetto stuck on the two feet with a bit of glue melted in an eggshell, doing his work so well that the joint could hardly be seen.
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