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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meantime the galley, which was very skilfully handled, had crossed us, let us come up with her, and fallen alongside.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meantime the countryman began to look grave, and shook his head.
-- Meantime he began to be tired, and hungry too, for he had given away his last penny in his joy at getting the cow.
-- 'Very well,' answered the sparrow, 'do so, and in the meantime I will perch upon that bush.'
-- Then Chanticleer ran to the garden, and took the garland from the bough where it hung, and brought it to the bride; and then the bride gave him the silken cord, and he took the silken cord to the river, and the river gave him wa-ter, and he carried the water to Partlet; but in the meantime she was choked by the great nut, and lay quite dead, and never moved any more.
-- In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to where the 98 Grimms' Fairy Talesflies were sitting in great numbers, and they were attracted and descended on it in hosts.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My master gave public notice that he would show me again the next market-day; and in the meantime he pre-pared a convenient vehicle for me, which he had reason enough to do; for I was so tired with my first journey, and with entertaining company for eight hours together, that I could hardly stand upon my legs, or speak a word.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bounderby, who had been in danger of bursting in silence, interposed here with a project for postponing the family dinner till half-past six, and taking Mr. James Harthouse in the meantime on a round of visits to the voting and interesting notabilities of Coketown and its vicinity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime Mrs Bangham had been out on an errand to a neighbouring establishment decorated with three golden balls, where she was very well known.
-- But he got pretty well over it in a month or two; and in the meantime the children played about the yard as regularly as ever, but in black.
-- Several projectors, likewise, availed themselves of the same opportunity to correspond with Mr Meagles; as, for example, to apprise him that their attention having been called to the advertisement by a friend, they begged to state that if they should ever hear anything of the young person, they would not fail to make it known to him immediately, and that in the meantime if he would oblige them with the funds necessary for bringing to perfection a certain entirely novel description of Pump, the happiest results would ensue to mankind.
-- The Father of the Marshalsea in the meantime took his younger daughter to his breast, and patted her head.
-- 'Fetch my Flintwinch!Tell him that it is his old Blandois, who comes from arriving in England; tell him that it is his little boy who is here, his cabbage, his well-beloved!Open the door, beautiful Mrs Flintwinch, and in the meantime let me to pass upstairs, to present my compliments homage of Blandois to my lady!My lady lives always?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The girls meantime spread the table, set the children round the fire, and fed them like so many hungry birds, laughing, talking, and trying to understand the funny broken English.
-- Jo meantime devoted herself to literature and Beth, who remained del-icate long after the fever was a thing of the past.
-- Meantime you can go to Italy, Germany, Swit-zerland, where you will, and enjoy pictures, music, scenery, and adventures to your heart's content.'
-- 'If that's the way he's going to grow up, I wish he's stay a boy,' she thought, with a curious sense of disappointment and discomfort, trying meantime to seem quite easy and gay.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meantime the sky darkens the wind rises.)
-- Meantime his ship was still increasing the distance between.
-- Meantime everything in the Pequod was aslant.
-- Meantime Pip's blue, choked face plainly looked, Do, for God's sake!All passed in a flash.
-- Meantime while his whole attention was absorbed, the Parsee was kneeling beneath him on the ship's deck, and with face thrown up like Ahab's, was eyeing the same sun with him; only the lids of his eyes half hooded their orbs, and his wild face was subdued to an earthly passionlessness.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lived with him some time, and acquainted myself by that means with the manner of planting and making of sugar; and seeing how well the planters lived, and how they got rich suddenly, I resolved, if I could get a licence to settle there, I would turn planter among them: resolving in the meantime to find out some way to get my money, which I had left in London, remitted to me.
-- These things being added to my desire of having a good quantity for store, and to secure a constant supply, I resolved not to taste any of this crop but to preserve it all for seed against the next season; and in the meantime to em-ploy all my study and hours of working to accomplish this great work of providing myself with corn and bread.
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