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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I had known that young man, at the period when mydifficulties came to a crisis, all I can say is, that I believe mycreditors would have been a great deal better managed than theywere.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had made his fortune, bought his house, and obtained his wife; and was beginning a new period of ex-istence, with every probability of greater happiness than in any yet passed through.
-- 'A material difference then,' she replied 'and no doubt you were much my superior in judgment at that period of our lives; but does not the lapse of one-and-twenty years bring our understandings a good deal nearer?'
-- It was accepted; and from that period Jane had belonged to Colonel Campbell's family, and had lived with them entirely, only visiting her grandmother from time to time.
-- The post-office has agreat charm at one period of our lives.
-- To amuse her, and be agree-able in her eyes, seemed all that he cared for and Emma, glad to be enlivened, not sorry to be flattered, was gay and easy too, and gave him all the friendly encouragement, the admission to be gallant, which she had ever given in the first and most animating period of their acquaintance; but which now, in her own estimation, meant nothing, though in the judgment of most people looking on it must have had such an appearance as no English word but flirtation could very well describe.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was at the brightest period of masculine growth, for his intellect and his emotions were clearly separated: he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family.
-- There was a wide margin of grass along here, and Gabriel's footsteps were deadened by its softness, even at this indurating period of the year.
-- It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season.
-- At this period the single opinion in the parish on herself and her doings that she valued as sounder than her own was Gabriel Oak's.
-- The simple consciousness that superhuman strain was no longer required had at once put a period to her power to continue it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Possibly it was the careless generosity with which Father Goriot allowed himself to be overreached at this period of his life (they called him Monsieur Goriot very respectfully then) that gave Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the most favourable period for travelling in Russia.
-- During all that period she appeared to me the most amiable and benevolent of human creatures.
-- 117Chapter 11 t is with considerable difficulty that I remember the 'Ioriginal era of my being; all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct.
-- 'A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing de-gree.
-- After so long a period of an absorbing melancholy that re-sembled madness in its intensity and effects, he was glad to find that I was capable of taking pleasure in the idea of such a journey, and he hoped that change of scene and var-ied amusement would, before my return, have restored me entirely to myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That, if Joe knew it, and at any subsequent period of our joint domestic life remarked that his beer was flat or thick, the conviction that he suspected tar in it, would bring a rush of blood to my face.
-- I insensibly fall into a general mention of these journeys as numerous, because it was at once settled that I should return every alternate day at noon for these purposes, and because I am now going to sum up a period of at least eight or ten months.
-- I remember that at a later period of my "time," I used to stand about the churchyard on Sunday evenings when night was falling, comparing my own perspective with the windy marsh view, and making out some likeness between them by thinking how flat and low both were, and how on both there came an unknown way and a dark mist and then the sea.
-- As I never assisted at any other representation of George Barnwell, I don't know how long it may usually take; but I know very well that it took until half-past nine o' clock that night, and that when Mr. Wopsle got into Newgate, I thought he never would go to the scaffold, he became so much slower than at any former period of his disgraceful career.
-- At that time jails were much neglected, and the period of exaggerated reaction consequent on all public wrongdoing--and which is always its heaviest and longest punishment--was still far off.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They bury their dead with their heads directly down-ward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.
-- It would be tedious to trouble the reader with relating what vast numbers of illustrious persons were called up to 246 Gulliver's Travelsgratify that insatiable desire I had to see the world in every period of antiquity placed before me.
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