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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sail was taken in, and everything made snug for a tedious period of inaction.
-- During the whole period of our exile only two or three vessels appeared on the horizon, and those only to disappear again immediately.
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：
-- Though Sir Charles had resided at Basker-ville Hall for a comparatively short period his amiability of character and extreme generosity had won the affection and respect of all who had been brought into contact with him.
-- In the centre of this room there was an upright beam, which had been placed at some period as a support for the old worm-eaten baulk of timber which spanned the roof.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At one period of these five years of Petersburg life, Totski had certainly not spared his expenditure upon her.
-- You see, we were talking over this period of history.
-- And yet we know, equally certainly, that during this period he several times set off, suddenly, to the Epanchins', not concealing the fact from Nastasia Philipov-na, and driving the latter to absolute despair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The oldest inhabitants recollected no period at which measles had been so prevalent, or so fatal to infant existence; and many were the mournful processions which little Oliver headed, in a hat-band reaching down to his knees, to the indescribable admiration and emotion of all the mothers in the town.
-- It is not improbable that if Mr. Bumble had been possessed of this information at an earlier period of the interview, he might have imparted a very different colouring to his little history.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Mery- ton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, un- shackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.
-- It was necessary to make this circumstance a matter of pleasure, because on such occa-sions it is the etiquette; but no one was less likely than Mrs. Bennet to find comfort in staying home at any period of her life.
-- But may we not hope that the period of future happiness to which Miss Bingley looks forward may arrive earlier than she is aware, and that the delightful intercourse you have known as friends will be renewed with yet greater satisfaction as sisters?
-- Within doors there was Lady Catherine, books, and a billiard-table, but gentlemen cannot always be within doors; and in the nearness of the Parsonage, or the pleasantness of the walk to it, or of the people who lived in it, the two cousins found a temptation from this period of walking thither almost every day.
-- After this period ev-ery appearance of acquaintance was dropped.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.
-- Since he had neglected to do it on first coming to the estate, their quitting his house might be looked on as the most suitable period for its accomplishment.
-- The youthful infatuation of nineteen would naturally blind him to every thing but her beauty and good nature; but the four succeeding years years, which if rationally spent, give such improvement to the understanding, must have opened his eyes to her defects of education, while the same period of time, spent on her side in inferior society and more frivolous pursuits, had perhaps robbed her of that simplicity which might once have given an interesting character to her beauty.
-- "It was nearly three years after this unhappy period before I returned to England.
-- Volume IIICHAPTER 37Mrs. Palmer was so well at the end of a fortnight, that her mother felt it no longer necessary to give up the whole of her time to her; and, contenting herself with visiting her once or twice a day, returned from that period to her own home, and her own habits, in which she found the Miss Dashwoods very ready to resume their former share.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Particularly if it be evening--that mystic period between the glare and gloom of the world when life is changing from one sphere or condition to another.
-- "You see that things are safe and all the employees are out when you go home, George," Moy had once remarked to him, and he never once, in all the period of his long service, neglected to do this.
-- During all this time--a period rapidly approaching three years-- Hurstwood had been moving along in an even path.
-- Frequently there is a period between the cessation of youthful accretion and the setting in, in the case of the middle-aged man, of the tendency toward decay when the two processes are almost perfectly balanced and there is little doing in either direction.
-- For another period this state continued, the twain leading a rather monotonous life, and then there was a slight change for the worse.
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