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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His case was discussed among psychologists at the time as a curious instance of the lapse of memory consequent upon physi-cal and mental stress.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hoped that the grief which now seemed intolerable would be softened by the lapse of time, and a merciful forgetfulness would help him to take up once more the burden of life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 59When Kit, having discharged his errand, came down-stairs from the single gentleman's apartment after the lapse of a quarter of an hour or so, Mr Sampson Brass was alone in the office.
-- By slow degrees he resumed his sitting posture after that lapse of time, and inquired:'And where do you live, Marchioness?'
-- There were many such whispers as these in circulation; but the truth appears to be that, after the lapse of some five years (during which there is no direct evidence of her having been seen at all), two wretched people were more than once observed to crawl at dusk from the inmost recesses of St Giles's, and to take their way along the streets, with shuffling steps and cowering shivering forms, looking into the roads and kennels as they went in search of refuse food or disregarded offal.
-- Under this title the Marchioness repaired, in tears, to the school of his selection, from which, as she soon distanced all competitors, she was removed before the lapse of many quarters to one of a higher grade.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, after a lapse of twelve hours, we had only raised a block of ice one yard thick, on the marked surface, which was about 600 cubic yards!Reckoning that it took twelve hours to accomplish this much it would take five nights and four days to bring this enterprise to a satisfactory conclusion.
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：
-- You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unknowingness, and give up your volition.
-- She lifted her heavy eyes and saw him lapse suddenly away, on a sudden, unknown tide, and the waves broke over her.
-- We fall from the connection with life and hope, we lapse from pure integral being, from creation and liberty, and we fall into the long, long African process of purely sensual understanding, knowledge in the mystery of dissolution.
-- And they both felt the subterranean desire to let go, to fling away everything, and lapse into a sheer unrestraint, brutal and licentious.
-- After a lapse of stillness, after the rivers of strange dark fluid richness had passed over her, flooding, carrying away her mind and flooding down her spine and down her knees, past her feet, a strange flood, sweeping away everything and leaving her an essential new being, she was left quite free, she was free in complete ease, her complete self.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, after a lapse of something more than an hour, Mr. Bumble, and Sowerberry, and the clerk, were seen running towards the grave.
-- After the lapse of a week or so, the Jew left the room-door unlocked; and he was at liberty to wander about the house.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had realised with the lapse of the quarter hours that Drouet was not coming, and somehow she felt a little resentful, a little as if she had been forsaken-- was not good enough.
-- With the lapse of time it must necessarily become dryer and dryer--must eventually be tinder, easily lighted and destroyed.
-- In the lapse of another half-hour it became apparent to Carrie that it was quite a run to wherever he was taking her, anyhow.
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