lapse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 小错, 记错; (时间) 流逝，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was vexatious; but in the warm lands everything grows so quickly; and after the lapse of eight days he observed, to his great joy, that a new shadow came in the sunshine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a picturesque expanse, framed in lofty crags in large strata, encrusted with white salt a superb sheet of water, which was formerly of larger extent than now, its shores having encroached with the lapse of time, and thus at once reduced its breadth and increased its depth.
-- Then she would return, chilled through, to issue out again after the lapse of a few moments, but always in vain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether it was the following Sunday when I saw the gentlemanagain, or whether there was any greater lapse of time before hereappeared, I cannot recall.
-- Notwithstanding the lapse of time that had occurred sinceMr. Heep's decease, she still wore weeds.
-- 647CHAPTER XLIXI Am Involved in MysteryI RECEIVED one morning by the post the following letter, datedCanterbury, and addressed to me at Doctors' Commons; which Iread with some surprise:'My Dear Sir, 'Circumstances beyond myindividual control have, for a considerable lapse of time, effected aseverance of that intimacy which, in the limited opportunitiesconceded to me in the midst of my professional duties, ofcontemplating the scenes and events of the past, tinged by theprismatic hues of memory, has ever afforded me, as it ever mustcontinue to afford, gratifying emotions of no common description.
-- You havehardly ever told me of your own life, in all this lapse of time!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A material difference then,' she replied 'and no doubt you were much my superior in judgment at that period of our lives; but does not the lapse of one-and-twenty years bring our understandings a good deal nearer?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here, after the lapse of a few minutes, several more fell down, and lay helpless and livid as the rest.
-- Boldwood's deep attachment was a matter of great interest among all around him; but, after having been pointed out for so many years as the perfect exemplar of thriving bachelorship, his lapse was an anticlimax somewhat resembling that of St. John Long's death by consumption in the midst of his proofs that it was not a fatal disease.
-- Having from their youth up been entirely unaccustomed to any liquor stronger than cider or mild ale, it was no wonder that they had succumbed, one and all, with extraordinary uniformity, after the lapse of about an hour.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitter-ness of grief commences.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was arranging his fruit in plates while we talked, which divided his attention, and was the cause of his having made this lapse of a word.
-- When Miss Havisham had fixed her attention on me, she said, speaking as if there had been no lapse in our dialogue,--"What else?"
-- The truth was, that she had objected to me as an expensive companion who did Herbert no good, and that, when Herbert had first proposed to present me to her, she had received the proposal with such very moderate warmth, that Herbert had felt himself obliged to confide the state of the case to me, with a view to the lapse of a little time before I made her acquaintance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a great lapse of time, the rapidity of our journey increased.
-- Suddenly, after a lapse of time scarcely appreciable, I felt something like a shock.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunates with wrongs, or with projects for the general welfare (and they had better have had wrongs at first, than have taken that bitter English recipe for certainly getting them), who in slow lapse of time and agony had passed safely through other public departments; who, according to rule, had been bullied in this, over-reached by that, and evaded by the other; got referred at last to the Circumlocution Office, and never reappeared in the light of day.
-- I wish to investigate his confused affairs so far as to ascertain whether it may not be possible, after this lapse of time, to ameliorate his unhappy condition.
-- Pictures of demolished streets and altered houses, as they formerly were when the occupant of the chair was familiar with them, images of people as they too used to be, with little or no allowance made for the lapse of time since they were seen; of these, there must have been many in the long routine of gloomy days.
-- Some pitying acquaintance chance acquaintance very often has warmed up his weakness with a treat of beer, and the consequence will be the lapse of a longer time than usual before he shall pass again.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The others sat round the fire, talking away, utterly regardless of the lapse of time, till Meg, whose maternal was impressed with a firm conviction that Daisy had tumbled out of be, and Demi set his nightgown afire studying the structure of matches, made a move to go.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there are instances where, after the lapse of many hours or several days, the sunken whale again rises, more buoyant than in life.
-- cried Ahab, when, after the lapse of some minutes since the first cry, no more had been heard.
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