meantime是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 其间， 其时ad. 同时， 当时，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doctor was meantime with difficulty restraining the expression of his contempt for this old gentleman, and with difficulty condescending to the level of his intelligence.
-- Anna meantime went back to her boudoir, took a wine glass and dropped into it several drops of a medicine, of which the principal ingredient was morphine.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meantime Martin and she would have no, uh, relations.
-- Meantime he prepared for disaster.
-- Meantime I suggest you have in some expert to test my results; say Long of Chicago or Brent of Minneapolis or somebody."
-- Meantime you better avoid doing anything brash.
-- But meantime I'm going to stick here.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But supposing she were in the meantime to miss the axe, look for it, make an outcry that would mean suspi-cion or at least grounds for suspicion.
-- 'Thanks!And I'll wait with Pashenka meantime and will keep watch on him through Nastasya芒聙娄.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So I was sentupstairs to Peggotty to be made spruce; and, in the meantime Mr.Murdstone dismounted, and, with his horse's bridle drawn overhis arm, walked slowly up and down on the outer side of thesweetbriar fence, while my mother walked slowly up and down onthe inner, to keep him company.
-- In the meantime I learnt lessons at home.
-- The malady will wear out by andby, the doctors say, but in the meantime she has to lie down for atwelve-month.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here's some cider for him that'll cure his throat," said Jan Coggan, lifting a flagon of cider, pulling out the cork, and applying the hole to Cainy's mouth; Joseph Poorgrass in the meantime beginning to think apprehensively of the serious consequences that would follow Cainy Ball's strangulation in his cough, and the history of his Bath adventures dying with him.
-- In the meantime one of the grisly forms had alighted upon the point of Gabriel's rod, to run invisibly down it, down the chain, and into the earth.
-- He found that, though still pale and unwell, she had in the meantime sent for the Budmouth man who brought the tidings, and learnt from him all there was to know.
-- In the meantime the surgeon, having hastened into the hall at Boldwood's, found it in darkness and quite deserted.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime he had fifteen months in which to navigate the ocean of Paris, to spread the nets and set the lines that would bring him a protectress and a fortune.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Safie resolved to remain with her father until the mo-ment of his departure, before which time the Turk renewed his promise that she should be united to his deliverer; and Felix remained with them in expectation of that event; and in the meantime he enjoyed the society of the Arabian, who exhibited towards him the simplest and tenderest affection.
-- With trembling hand I conveyed the instruments out of the room, but I reflected that I ought not to leave the relics of my work to excite the horror and suspicion of the peasants; and I accordingly put them into a basket, with a great quantity of stones, and lay-ing them up, determined to throw them into the sea that very night; and in the meantime I sat upon the beach, em-ployed in cleaning and arranging my chemical apparatus.
-- In the meantime I took every precaution to defend my person in case the fiend should openly attack me.
-- My father was in the meantime overjoyed and in the bustle of preparation only recognized in the melancholy of his niece the diffidence of a bride.
-- In the meantime he told me that my friend had certainly not many hours to live.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, all the children laughed, and Mr. Pocket (who in the meantime had twice endeavored to lift himself up by the hair) laughed, and we all laughed and were glad.
-- In the meantime Mr. Pocket grew grayer, and tried oftener to lift himself out of his perplexities by the hair.
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