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。
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, now that I had found the boat, you would have thought I had had enough of truantry for once, but in the meantime I had taken another notion and become so obstinately fond of it that I would have carried it out, I believe, in the teeth of Captain Smollett himself.
-- The speed in the meantime had strangely increased.
-- In the meantime I had a better chance, as I supposed, before me.
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