indefinitely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 不明确地，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 route was indefinitely prolonged owing to the insurmountable obstacles, huge blocks of granite, deep ravines, suspected lagoons, which obliged them to make a thousand detours.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our dinner hadbeen indefinitely postponed; but it was growing so late, that myaunt had ordered it to be got ready, when she gave a sudden alarmof donkeys, and to my consternation and amazement, I beheldMiss Murdstone, on a side-saddle, ride deliberately over the sacredpiece of green, and stop in front of the house, looking about her.
-- Upon my honour,'said Mr. Micawber, indefinitely kissing his hand and bowing hisgenteelest air, 'I do homage to Miss Wickfield!Hem!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Coggan looked up indefinitely at Oak, one or other of his eyes occasionally opening and closing of its own accord, as if it were not a member, but a dozy individual with a distinct personality.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But with young bachelors ah, that was a different matter!You could laugh softly at them and when they cameflying to see why you laughed, you could refuse to tell them and laugh harder and keep them around indefinitely tryingto find out.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the right, the range of mountains was prolonged indefinitely like a great system of natural fortifications, of which we skirted the glacis.
-- His route, he found, began to be indefinitely prolonged, instead of "sliding down the celestial ray," according to his expression.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply.
-- In the distance he saw the diminished dotted boat; and then a swift gleam of bubbling white water; and after that nothing more; whence it was concluded that the stricken whale must have indefinitely run away with his pursuers, as often happens.
-- But the added power of the boat did not equal the added power of the whale, for he seemed to have treble-banked his every fin; swimming with a velocity which plainly showed, that if now, under these circumstances, pushed on, the chase would prove an indefinitely prolonged, if not a hopeless one; nor could any crew endure for so long a period, such an unintermitted, intense straining at the oar; a thing barely tolerable only in some one brief vicissitude.
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