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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stranger, muffled in hat, coat, gloves, and wrapper, came out impatiently to meet Fearenside's cart, while Hall was having a word or so of gossip preparatory to helping being them in.
-- said Fearenside, climbing off the waggon with his whip in his hand, while the dog watched him through the wheel.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I rubbed my eyes and lay listening to the noise, doubtful for a little while of my whereabouts.
-- I fancied while we were still far off that I saw some other and very grotesque-looking creatures scuttle into the bushes upon the slope; but I saw nothing of these as we drew nearer.
-- I made no ado, but set to work on the biscuits at once, while the white-haired man helped Montgomery to release about a score more of the rabbits.
-- His keys, and the elaborate locking-up of the place even while it was still under his eye, struck me as peculiar.
-- After a little while I heard through the locked door the noise of the stag-hounds, that had now been brought up from the beach.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Wain-gunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!Keep him?
-- And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat's claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
-- So he strode round the corner and met the boy, took the pot from his hand, and disappeared into the mist while the boy howled with fear.
-- And he went to the cave where she lived with Father Wolf, and he cried on her coat, while the four cubs howled miserably.
-- 'Never while we can follow a trail,' said the cubs.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself, and while his cheek-bones have a very striking in-dication of a Tartar origin, his eyes have not.
-- Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.
-- While writing this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too common-place, and the Indian too unpronounceable, for either to be used familiarly in a work of fiction.
-- While the husbandman shrank back from the dangerous passes, within the safer boundaries of the more ancient set-tlements, armies larger than those that had often disposed of the scepters of the mother countries, were seen to bury themselves in these forests, whence they rarely returned but in skeleton bands, that were haggard with care or dejected by defeat.
-- It is a circumstance worthy of observation, that while all America rang with his well-merited reputation, his name does not occur in any European account of the battle; at least the author has searched for it without success.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
-- How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays; gathering grapes for them from the wild vines that overran the surrounding trees; reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tomb-stones; or sauntering, with a whole bevy of them, along the banks of the adjacent mill-pond; while the more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his supe-rior elegance and address.
-- But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cud-dling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly pur-chased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.
-- In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its giz- zard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if crav- ing that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.
-- Thus, while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza, honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other, watching the achievements of a little wooden warrior, who, armed with a sword in each hand, was most valiantly fighting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn.
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：
-- Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experiences he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.
-- In my timidity I wandered up and down the street while I screwed up my courage to ring the bell; and then, sick with apprehension, was ushered into an airless room full of people.
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