period是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 时期， 时代； 学时； 周期， 一段时间； 句点，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge reverently disclaimed all intention to offend or any knowledge of having wilfully bonneted the Spirit at any period of his life.
-- After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Book the First Recalled to Life A tale of two citiesI The Period t was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was Ithe age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had ev-erything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present peri-od, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
-- It was the first time, except at the trial, of her ever hear-ing him refer to the period of his suffering.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amongst other things they spoke of the middle ages: some praised that period as far more interesting, far more poetical than our own too sober present; indeed Councillor Knap defended this opin-18 Andersen's Fairy Talesion so warmly, that the hostess declared immediately on his side, and both exerted themselves with unwearied el-oquence.
-- These shoes possess the property of instantly transporting him who has them on to the place or the period in which he most wishes to be; every wish, as regards time or place, or state of being, will be immediately fulfilled, and so at last man will be happy, here below.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin remembered that when Nikolay had been in the devout stage, the period of fasts and monks and church services, when he was seeking in religion a support and a curb for his passionate temperament, everyone, far from encouraging him, had jeered at him, and he, too, with the others.
-- The feeling of jealousy, which had tortured him during the period of uncertainty, had passed away at the instant when the tooth had been with agony extracted by his wife's words.
-- And consequently, not being able to believe in the significance of what he was doing nor to regard it with indifference as an empty formality, during the whole period of preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame at doing what he did not himself understand, and what, as an inner voice told him, was therefore false and wrong.
-- Chapter 8 Anna, in that first period of her emancipation and rapid return to health, felt herself unpardonably happy and full of the joy of life.
-- These quarrels frequently arose from the fact that they did not yet know what was of importance to each other and that all this early period they were both often in a bad temper.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These ruffians, united by a secret bond, strangled victims of every age in honour of the goddess Death, without ever shedding blood; there was a period when this part of the country could scarcely be travelled over without corpses being found in every direction.
-- A railway train from San Francisco to New York, and a transatlantic steamer from New York to Liverpool, would doubtless bring them to the end of this impossible journey round the world within the period agreed upon.
-- If Phileas Fogg had left in the China, one of the fastest steamers on the Atlantic, he would have reached Liverpool, and then London, within the period agreed upon.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did, during the period of Martin's internship in Zenith General, a thing more preposterous than any of the superstitions at which he scoffed.
-- In fact I make it a regular practice to set aside a period for scientific research, without a certain amount of which even the most ardent crusade for health methods would scarcely make much headway."
-- This was the most difficult period of Martin's life.
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：
-- Part VI612 Crime and PunishmentChapter I strange period began for Raskolnikov: it was as though A a fog had fallen upon him and wrapped him in a dreary solitude from which there was no escape.
-- Sometimes days and even weeks of gloomy silence and tears would be succeeded by a period of hysterical animation, and the invalid would begin to talk almost incessantly of her son, of her hopes of his future芒聙娄.
-- During all this period Ra-zumihin wore an air of resolute determination.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I now approach a period of my life, which I can never lose theremembrance of, while I remember anything; and the recollectionof which has often, without my invocation, come before me like aghost, and haunted happier times.
-- 'I shall never, Master Copperfield,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'revert tothe period when Mr. Micawber was in difficulties, withoutthinking of you.
-- I felt more miserable anddestitute than I had done at any period of my running away.
-- Walking along the street, reflecting upon the probability ofsomething turning up (of which I am at present rather sanguine), Ifind a young but valued friend turn up, who is connected with themost eventful period of my life; I may say, with the turning pointof my existence.
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