fortnight是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 两星期，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her hus-band saw her (so she learned from her father) it might be once in five or six times: it might be twice or thrice run-ning: it might be, not for a week or a fortnight together.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I came home to Russia--had to see my wife, and, what's more, go to my country place; and there, you'd hardly believe it, in a fortnight I'd got into a dressing gown and given up dressing for dinner.
-- A fortnight ago a penitent letter had come from Stepan Arkadyevitch to Dolly.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he expected Martin to perform a miracle or two in the whole fortnight of the holidays and Martin had no stomach with which to think.
-- II To find an office took a fortnight of diplomacy, and of discussion brightening three meals a day, every day.
-- In the fortnight he was called only once: for the sick-headache of Miss Agnes Ingleblad, aunt and housekeeper of Alec Ingleblad the barber.
-- In early summer, two months before the outbreak of the Great War in Europe, Leora went to Wheatsylvania for a fortnight with her family.
-- Usually it took him a fortnight to make the discovery, write the report, and have it accepted.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His landlady had for the last fortnight given up sending him in meals, and he had not yet thought of expostulating with her, though he went without his dinner.
-- This noose, too, he had designed a fortnight before.
-- 'I had presumed and calculated,' he faltered, 'that a letter posted more than ten days, if not a fortnight ago 芒聙娄' 'I say, why are you standing in the doorway?'
-- And the things he said yesterday!And they were delighted!He can keep it up for a fortnight together.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were sitting as before, one evening (when my mother was outas before), in company with the stocking and the yard measure,and the bit of wax, and the box with Saint Paul's on the lid, and thecrocodile book, when Peggotty, after looking at me several times,and opening her mouth as if she were going to speak, withoutdoing it- which I thought was merely gaping, or I should havebeen rather alarmed- said coaxingly'Master Davy, how should youlike to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother's atYarmouth?
-- She's going to stay for a fortnight with Mrs. Grayper.
-- So the fortnight slipped away, varied by nothing but the variationof the tide, which altered Mr. Peggotty's times of going out andcoming in, and altered Ham's engagements also.
-- I got a little the better of my uneasiness when I went to school nextday, and a good deal the better next day, and so shook it off bydegrees, that in less than a fortnight I was quite at home, andhappy, among my new companions.
-- 299CHAPTER XXIISome Old Scenes, and Some New PeopleSTEERFORTH and I stayed for more than a fortnight in that part ofthe country.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June, and my birthday is the 23rd just a fortnight and a day's difference which is very odd.'
-- Mr. Weston gave her the history of the engagements at Enscombe, which allowed his son to answer for having an entire fortnight at his command, as well as the route and the method of his journey; and she listened, and smiled, and congratulated.
-- They ought to have balls there at least every fortnight through the winter.
-- 'Such a fortnight as it has been!'
-- She had soon afterwards reason to believe that the be-ginning was already made, and could not but hope that the gipsy, though she had told no fortune, might be proved to have made Harriet's. About a fortnight after the alarm, they came to a sufficient explanation, and quite undesign-edly.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The execution had been fixed for eight o'clock on a Saturday morning about a fortnight after the sentence was passed, and up to Friday afternoon no answer had been received.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall depart for the latter town in a fortnight or three weeks; and my intention is to hire a ship there, which can easily be done by paying the insurance for the owner, and to engage as many sailors as I think necessary among those who are accustomed to the whale-fishing.
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