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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- I expected every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship fell down, as I thought it did, in the trough or hollow of the sea, we should never rise more; in this agony of mind, I made many vows and resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again, I would go directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such mis-eries as these any more.
-- These wise and sober thoughts continued all the while the storm lasted, and indeed some time after; but the next day the wind was abated, and the sea calmer, and I began to be a little inured to it; however, I was very grave for all that day, being also a little sea-sick still; but towards night the weather cleared up, the wind was quite over, and a charm-ing fine evening followed; the sun went down perfectly clear, and rose so the next morning; and having little or no wind, and a smooth sea, the sun shining upon it, the sight was, as I thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.
-- I had slept well in the night, and was now no more sea-sick, but very cheerful, looking with wonder upon the sea that was so rough and terrible the day before, and could be so calm and so pleasant in so little a time after.
-- at south-west - for seven or eight days, during which time a great many ships from Newcastle came into the same Roads, as the common harbour where the ships might wait for a wind for the river.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The time may come when Harry will regret that so large a sum was parted with.
-- This circumstance was a growing attachment between her eldest girl and the brother of Mrs. John Dashwood, a gentleman-like and pleasing young man, who was introduced to their acquaintance soon after his sister's establishment at Norland, and who had since spent the greatest part of his time there.
-- She needed no time for deliberation or inquiry.
-- Now was the time when her son-in-law's promise to his father might with particular propriety be fulfilled.
-- With the size and furniture of the house Mrs. Dashwood was upon the whole well satisfied; for though her former style of life rendered many additions to the latter indispensable, yet to add and improve was a delight to her; and she had at this time ready money enough to supply all that was wanted of greater elegance to the apartments.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For some time she had been conscious of a man behind.
-- All the time she was conscious of certain features out of the side of her eye.
-- Here was a type of the travelling canvasser for a manufacturing house--a class which at that time was first being dubbed by the slang of the day "drummers."
-- To the child, the genius with imagination, or the wholly untravelled, the approach to a great city for the first time is a wonderful thing.
-- In the interval which marked the preparation of the meal Carrie found time to study the flat.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary.
-- Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom boom boom twelve licks; and all still again stiller than ever.
-- And next time Jim told it he said they rode him down to New Orleans; and, after that, every time he told it he spread it more and more, till by and by he said they rode him all over the world, and tired him most to death, and his back was all over saddle-boils.
-- I set down one time back in the woods, and had a long think about it.
-- He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.
-- This time it giggled as it spoke: "Stop it!Oh, stop it!Ha, ha, ha!You tickle my stomach."
-- This time poor Mastro Cherry fell as if shot.
-- Very little time did it take to get poor old Geppetto to prison.
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