duration是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 持久； 期间； 持续时间，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：
-- John hoped that the duration of this deluge of rain would be in an inverse ratio to its violence, but he was doomed to disappointment.
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：
-- The sun now set: a freezing cold, though of short duration pervaded the whole cre-62 Andersen's Fairy Talesation; it was like a horrid gust coming from a burial-vault on a warm summer's day but all around the mountains retained that wonderful green tone which we see in some old pictures, and which, should we not have seen a similar play of color in the South, we declare at once to be unnatu-ral.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without allowing himself even to think of what was to come, of how it would end, judging from his inquiries as to the usual duration of these ordeals, Levin had in his imagination braced himself to bear up and to keep a tight rein on his feelings for five hours, and it had seemed to him he could do this.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a single combat of some duration they returned, and I saw, tomy joy, both in Mrs. Crupp's countenance and in my aunt's, thatthe deed was done.
-- Whenever she was particularly discomposed, shealways performed one of these pedestrian feats; and the amount ofher discomposure might always be estimated by the duration ofher walk.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The duration of my absence was left to my own choice; a few months, or at most a year, was the period contemplat-ed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel twenty miles for a visit, the visit was seldom ofshorter duration than a month, usually much longer.
-- So she gracefully evaded, for the time being, a definite answer as to the duration of her visit and slipped easilyinto the life of the red-brick house at the quiet end of Peachtree Street.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, the average duration of human life is proved to have increased of late years.
-- CHAPTER X. MRS. SPARSIT'S STAIRCASEMrs. Sparsit's nerves being slow to recover their tone, the worthy woman made a stay of some weeks in duration at Mr. Bounderby's retreat, where, notwithstanding her anchorite turn of mind based upon her becoming consciousness of her altered station, she resigned herself with noble fortitude to lodging, as one may say, in clover, and feeding on the fat of the land.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever was the cause, it was a phenomenon upon the duration of which we could calculate with certainty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An interval of some duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs General.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And John sipped his tea with an air of reposeful rapture, which was of very short duration however, for as he put down his cup, the door han-dle rattled mysteriously, and a little voice was heard, saying impatiently ... 'Opy doy.
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