indefinite是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不明确的； 不定的，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：
-- "In an indefinite way I do."
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：
-- 'If matters came to a crisis I should endeavour to be present in person; but you can understand that, with my extensive consulting practice and with the constant appeals which reach me from many quarters, it is impossible for me to be absent from London for an indefinite time.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince remembered that at this moment Aglaya remarked in a half-whisper: 'WHAT a ' She did not finish her indefinite sentence; she restrained herself in a moment; but it was enough.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In its disengaged times, the tobacconist had announced it in his window as 'apartments' for a single gentleman, and Mr Swiveller, following up the hint, never failed to speak of it as his rooms, his lodgings, or his chambers, conveying to his hearers a notion of indefinite space, and leaving their imaginations to wander through long suites of lofty halls, at pleasure.
-- Indeed he so overflowed with liberality and condescension, that, in the fulness of his heart, he invited Mr Swiveller to partake of a bowl of punch with him at that remote and indefinite period which is currently denominated 'one of these days,' and paid him many handsome compliments on the uncommon aptitude for business which his conduct on the first day of his devotion to it had so plainly evinced.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On his head there was a wreck of a hat of indefinite form, but his gun of a new patent was a perfect gem, and his game bag and cartridge belt, though worn, were of the very best quality.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The monster became a small island, a rock, a reef, but a reef of indefinite and shifting proportions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should be happy, myself,to propose two monthsthree- an indefinite period, in fact- but Ihave a partner.
-- He seemed to swell andgrow before my eyes; the room seemed full of the echoes of hisvoice; and the strange feeling (to which, perhaps, no one is quite a 355stranger) that all this had occurred before, at some indefinite time,and that I knew what he was going to say next, took possession ofme.
-- In the beginning of the change that gradually worked in me, whenI tried to get a better understanding of myself and be a better man,I did glance, through some indefinite probation, to a period when Imight possibly hope to cancel the mistaken past, and to be soblessed as to marry her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you imagine Colonel Campbell knows the business to be going forward just at this time? Do you imagine it to be the consequence of an immediate commission from him, or that he may have sent only a general direction, an order indefinite as to time, to depend upon contingencies and conveniences?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I associated them in some indefinite way with the white animal I had startled in my first passionate search for the Time Machine.
-- For an indefinite time I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite unheeding how I went, and when I brought myself to look at the dials again I was amazed to find where I had arrived.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And at the best, how indefinite and unsatisfactory, only to know so vaguely what they are!"
-- With those words the Impostor shook them both by the hand, with an air, and left the house; leaving me much more astonished than delighted by the virtues of that same indefinite "it."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The crater of Mount Sneffels represented an inverted cone, the gaping orifice apparently half a mile across; the depth indefinite feet.
-- I, moreover, heard a vague and indefinite murmur, like the ebb and flow of waves upon a strand, and sometimes I verily believed I could hear the sighing of the wind.
-- Some indefinite warning told me that it had marked me for its own.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If there were a last subject in his thoughts, and it lay towards Twickenham, its form was so indefinite that it was little more than the pervading atmosphere in which these other subjects floated before him.
-- More than that, there's no saying when we may come home again; and it would never do to take him away for an indefinite time.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!For worm-like, then, oh!who would craven crawl to land!Terrors of the terrible!is all this agony so vain?
-- Secondly: People ashore have indeed some indefinite idea that a whale is an enormous creature of enormous power; but I have ever found that when narrating to them some specific example of this two-fold enormousness, they have significantly complimented me upon my facetiousness; when, I declare upon my soul, I had no more idea of being facetious than Moses, when he wrote the history of the plagues of Egypt.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, he had only five hundred dollars left, and this he hugged, half feeling as if he could stave off absolute necessity for an indefinite period.
-- Nevertheless, he went on, vaguely anticipating that indefinite something which is always better.
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