elapse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. (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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
-- It might be that a long interval would elapse ere the White Whale was seen.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On my arrival here I purposely allowed a few days to elapse before coming to see you, in order that I might be fully assured that you were in full possession of the tidings; but now, to my astonish-ment 芒聙娄' 'I know, I know!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the few hours that I can possibly allow to elapse before I publish the truth, how is he to be found by us, and only by us?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But then years might elapse before he would arrive at the correct solution.
-- There were yet forty-eight hours to elapse before we made our final start.
-- Its magnificent snowy nightcap, as we began to call it, by an optical delusion very common in mountains, appeared to me to be close at hand; and yet how many long weary hours must elapse before we reached its summit.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A whole day had to elapse before they could make a start, and they employed it in arranging a plan of flight.
-- But four days at least must elapse before they could hope to leave it.
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