time是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 时间， 时刻； 次， 回； 时代， 时期； 倍， 乘，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
-- If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
-- Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?
-- In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.
-- And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,--a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
-- The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.
-- Oliver, having had by this time as much of the outer coat of dirt which encrusted his face and hands, removed, as could be scrubbed off in one washing, was led into the room by his benevolent protectress.
-- To these interrogations Mr. Bumble returned very brief and snappish replies; for the temporary blandness which gin-and-water awakens in some bosoms had by this time evaporated; and he was once again a beadle.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At our time of life it is not so pleasant, I can tell you, to be making new acquaintances every day; but for your sakes, we would do anything.
-- You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.'
-- He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting.
-- I remember the time when I liked a red coat myself very well and, indeed, so I do still at my heart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year, should want one of my girls I shall not say nay to him; and I thought Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William's in his regimentals.'
-- To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend's vulgar rela-tions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.
-- At one time she was Tatty, and at one time she was Coram, until we got into a way of mixing the two names together, and now she is always Tattycoram.'
-- We have been advised more than once when she has been a little ailing, to change climate and air for her as often as we could especially at about this time of her life and to keep her amused.
-- So, as I have no need to stick at a bank-desk now (though I have been poor enough in my time I assure you, or I should have married Mrs Meagles long before), we go trotting about the world.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You don't have half such a hard time as I do,' said Jo.
-- 'It's no use!Do the best you can when the time comes, and if the audience laughs, don't blame me.
-- Beth said nothing, but wiped away her tears with the blue army sock and began to knit with all her might, los-ing no time in doing the duty that lay nearest her, while she resolved in her quiet little soul to be all that Father hoped to find her when the year brought round the happy coming home.
-- 'We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another.
-- They had always done this from the time they could lisp... Crinkle, crinkle, 'ittle 'tar, and it had become a household custom, for the mother was a born singer.
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