temporary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 暂时的, 临时的，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：
-- The lives of the shipwrecked men were at stake, and Lady Helena was too much concerned herself about them to grudge her husband's temporary absence.
-- A sort of leather tent, called a ROUKAH, which had been left by the natives, afforded the party a temporary resting-place, and the weary horses stretched themselves along the muddy banks, and tried to browse on the marine plants and dry reeds they found there—nauseous to the taste as they must have been.
-- The only consolation in such circumstances was to sleep, and accordingly each one lay down and endeavored to find in slumber a temporary forgetfulness of his discomforts and his fatigues.
-- The plain was furrowed in some places by fantastic winding creeks surrounded by box, and whose waters were rather temporary than permanent.
-- The temporary influx would soon be exhausted, and the violence also.
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：
-- We succeeded in our object at a cost which both the specialist and Dr. Mortimer assure me will be a temporary one.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Evgenie Pavlovitch was not afraid to compromise himself by paying the prince a visit, and did so, in spite of the fact that he had recommenced to visit at the Epanchins', where he was received with redoubled hospital-ity and kindness after the temporary estrangement.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in the silly season, and a prominent editor, a cousin of the temporary labora-tory-assistant, appealed to the conscience of the nation.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A spring, which many long years before had induced the natives to select the place for their temporary fortification, was soon cleared of leaves, and a fountain of crystal gushed from the bed, diffusing its waters over the verdant hillock.
-- He was alone, if the solitary sentinel who paced the mound be excepted; for the artillerists had hastened also to profit by the temporary suspension of their arduous duties.
-- A few fragments of rafters were reared against a blackened wall; and when Uncas had covered them slightly with brush, the temporary accommo- dations were deemed sufficient.
-- Their rounded roofs, admirably molded for defense against the weather, denoted more of industry and foresight than the natives were wont to bestow on their regular habitations, much less on those they occupied for the temporary purposes of hunting and war.
-- It was the principal edifice of the village, though roughly constructed of the bark and branches of trees; being the lodge in which the tribe held its councils and public meetings during their temporary residence on the borders of the English province.
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：
-- For the most part, they keep their various activities in various compartments, and they can pursue one to the temporary exclusion of the other.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Falling into that kind of abstraction which such a solitude awakens, the child continued to gaze upon the passing crowd with a wondering interest, amounting almost to a temporary forgetfulness of her own condition.
-- 'It was then, when the love of two dead people who had been nearest and dearest to his heart, was all transferred to this slight creature; when her face, constantly before him, reminded him, from hour to hour, of the too early change he had seen in such another of all the sufferings he had watched and known, and all his child had undergone; when the young man's profligate and hardened course drained him of money as his father's had, and even sometimes occasioned them temporary privation and distress; it was then that there began to beset him, and to be ever in his mind, a gloomy dread of poverty and want.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The inspector told him that she might be found in the old temporary prison.
-- It was the same feeling with the difference that, while it was temporary then, now it was permanent.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "At first, proceeding from the problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer was the key to the whole position.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once in a while he would meet a woman whose youth, sprightliness, and humour would make his wife seem rather deficient by contrast, but the temporary dissatisfaction which such an encounter might arouse would be counterbalanced by his social position and a certain matter of policy.
-- Carrie only listened as one who has granted a temporary amnesty.
-- The fact that he had in a measure mollified Carrie was a source of satisfaction to Hurstwood, but it furnished only the most temporary relief.
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