term是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 期, 学期, 条件，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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no term of comparison.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And being led and tempted on by this remorseful thought into a condition which the evil-minded class before referred to would term the maudlin state or stage of drunkenness, it occurred to Mr Swiveller to cast his hat upon the ground, and moan, crying aloud that he was an unhappy orphan, and that if he had not been an unhappy orphan things had never come to this.
-- The other old man was not behindhand with some moral reflections on this fruitful theme, and both adduced a mass of evidence, of such weight as to render it doubtful not whether the deceased was of the age suggested, but whether she had not almost reached the patriarchal term of a hundred.
-- He softened again at sight of these two friends, and, laying aside the angry manner if to anything so feeble and so sad the term can be applied in which he had spoken when the door opened, resumed his former seat, and subsided, by little and little into the old action, and the old, dull, wandering sound.
-- These were, that he should, for a term of years, reside in a spacious mansion where several other gentlemen were lodged and boarded at the public charge, who went clad in a sober uniform of grey turned up with yellow, had their hair cut extremely short, and chiefly lived on gruel and light soup.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Breae was an assistant prosecuting attorney and was assigned to this term of the court.
-- 777 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, this 28th day of April, 188-, decrees that Simon Kartinkin, thirty- three years of age, and Katherine Maslova, twenty-seven years of age, be deprived of all civil rights, and sent to penal servitude, Kartinkin for eight, Maslova for the term of four years, under conditions prescribed by ch.
-- "Maslova was confronted by one of two things: either a short term in jail, in which case her lengthy confinement would have been taken into consideration, or penal servitude; no other sentence was possible.
-- He became particularly attached to a consumptive young man who was on his way to a life term at hard labor.
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：
-- Thus, the term used in the title of this book has undergone the changes of Mahicanni, Mohicans, and Mohegans; the latter being the word commonly used by the whites.
-- Mingo was a term of peculiar reproach, as were Mengwe and Maqua in a less degree.
-- * Mingo was the Delaware term of the Five Nations.
-- I had her but a single year, though; a short term of happiness for one who had seen her youth fade in hopeless pining.'
-- There was no term of abuse known to the Huron vocabu-lary that the disappointed women did not lavishly expend on the successful stranger.
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