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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at those petrifactions all over it, these different substances almost turned to mineral, we might say, through the action of the salt water!This waif had been tossing about in the ocean a long time before the shark swallowed it."
-- But you can employ your time usefully.
-- A broken spar, or any fragment of the vessel, would have put them in the right track; but nothing whatever was visible, and the yacht continued her route, till she dropped anchor at the port of Talcahuano, forty-two days from the time she had sailed out of the fogs of the Clyde.
-- And for want of better work, Paganel whiled away the time along the road by practising the difficulties in pronunciation, repeating all the break-jaw words he could, though still making geographical observations.
-- However strong the will of these brave men might be, the time came at last when their physical powers failed, and vertigo, that terrible malady in the mountains, destroyed not only their bodily strength but their moral energy.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You have presented an inch or two of it to my examina- tion all the time that you have been talking.
-- 'Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion (the history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly commend to your attention) this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man.
-- 'It chanced that some little time later Hugo left his guests to carry food and drink with other worse things, per-chance to his captive, and so found the cage empty and the bird escaped.
-- Their evidence, corroborated by that of several friends, tends to show that Sir Charles's health has for some time been impaired, and points especially to some affection of the heart, manifesting itself in changes of colour, breathlessness, and acute attacks of nervous depression.
-- There were indications that Sir Charles had stood for some little time here.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A special feature of this physiognomy was its death-like pallor, which gave to the whole man an indescribably emaciated appearance in spite of his hard look, and at the same time a sort of passionate and suffering expression which did not harmonize with his impudent, sarcastic smile and keen, self-satisfied bearing.
-- I wrote to Mrs. General Epanchin at the time (she is a distant relative of mine), but she did not answer my letter.
-- These men generally have about a hundred pounds a year to live on, and they spend their whole time and talents in the amassing of this style of knowledge, which they reduce or raise to the standard of a science.
-- As to age, General Epanchin was in the very prime of life; that is, about fifty-five years of age, the flowering time ofexistence, when real enjoyment of life begins.
-- 'Oh well, look here, if I have some time to wait, would you mind telling me, is there any place about where I could have a smoke?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We waste our time in words, and for all our talking here shall be no further forward.
-- As countless swarms of flies buzz around a herdsman's homestead in the time of spring when the pails are drenched with milk, even so did the Achaeans swarm on to the plain to charge the Trojans and destroy them.
-- Of the men, Ajax, son of Telamon, was much the foremost so long as Achilles' anger lasted, for Achil-les excelled him greatly and he had also better horses; but Achilles was now holding aloof at his ships by reason of his quarrel with Agamemnon, and his people passed their time upon the sea shore, throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark, and in archery.
-- In his likeness Iris spoke, saying, 'Old man, you talk idly, as in time of peace, while war is at hand.
-- After a time they delivered their message, and the speech of Menel-aus ran trippingly on the tongue; he did not say much, for he was a man of few words, but he spoke very clearly and to the point, though he was the younger man of the two; Ulysses, on the other hand, when he rose to speak, was at first silent and kept his eyes fixed upon the ground.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips.
-- But his snubbing way had irritated her, and Millie had a hot time of it that afternoon.
-- Should he remark that the weather was very cold for the time of year?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio had no hat, but he managed to get under the window just in time to feel a shower of ice-cold water pour down on his poor wooden head, his shoulders, and over his whole body.
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