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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fortnight afterwards, the marriage was celebrated in grand style in the chapel of Malcolm Castle.
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：
-- A fortnight has passed since his flight, during which he has not been seen and nothing has been heard of him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Within a fortnight Totski himself arrived, and from that time he appeared to have taken a great fancy to this part of the world and came down each summer, staying two and three months at a time.
-- At the end of that time, and about four months after Tots-ki's last visit (he had stayed but a fortnight on this occasion), a report reached Nastasia Philipovna that he was about to be married in St. Petersburg, to a rich, eminent, and love-ly woman.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In another fortnight I was able to leave my chamber.
-- We passed a fortnight in these perambulations; my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.
-- The grand jury rejected the bill, on its being proved that I was on the Orkney Islands at the hour the body of my friend was found; and a fortnight after my removal I was liberated from prison.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One morning, about a fortnight after I had obtained my liberty, Reldresal, principal secretary (as they style him) for 50 Gulliver's Travelsprivate affairs, came to my house attended only by one ser-vant.
-- They were astonished to observe me without the usual hair or skin, except on my head, face, and hands; but I discovered that secret to my master upon an accident which happened about a fortnight before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He remained shut up in his room for a fortnight afterwards; and an attorney's clerk, who was going through the Insolvent Court, engrossed an address of condolence to him, which looked like a Lease, and which all the prisoners signed.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A whole fortnight of fun will be regularly splendid,' replied Jo, looking like a windmill as she folded skirts with her long arms.
-- The next day was fine, and Meg departed in style for a fortnight of novelty and pleasure.
-- And Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After amusing himself some time with their curiosity, he thus explained: 'About a month ago I received this letter; and about a fortnight ago I answered it, for I thought it a case of some delicacy, and requiring early attention.
-- In this quiet way, the first fortnight of her visit soon passed away.
-- It was some consolation to think that his visit to Rosings was to end on the day after the next and, a still greater, that in less than a fortnight she should herself be with Jane again, and enabled to contribute to the recovery of her spirits, by all that affection could do.
-- In a fortnight they were to go and once gone, she hoped there could be nothing more to plague her on his account.
-- After the first fortnight or three weeks of her absence, health, good humour, and cheerfulness began to reappear at Longbourn.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I gave him a cake of my bread, and he devoured it like a ravenous wolf that had been starving a fortnight in the snow; I then gave the poor creature some fresh water, with which, if I would have let him, he would have burst himself.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, yes; he had been staying a fortnight with us.
-- "No," replied Elinor, most feelingly sensible of every fresh circumstance in favour of Lucy's veracity; "I remember he told us, that he had been staying a fortnight with some friends near Plymouth."
-- "I begged him to exert himself for fear you should suspect what was the matter; but it made him so melancholy, not being able to stay more than a fortnight with us, and seeing me so much affected. Poor fellow! I am afraid it is just the same with him now; for he writes in wretched spirits.
-- Eliza had confessed to me, though most reluctantly, the name of her lover; and when he returned to town, which was within a fortnight after myself, we met by appointment, he to defend, I to punish his conduct.
-- Early in February, within a fortnight from the receipt of Willoughby's letter, Elinor had the painful office of informing her sister that he was married.
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