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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XVIIIIn point of fact, I met Strickland before I had been a fortnight in Paris.
-- For a fortnight it was necessary that someone should stay with him all night, and she took turns at watching with her husband.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Remember that today, for the last time, I am out in the air, and in the company of my fellow-men, and that in a fortnight I shall I certainly be no longer in this world.
-- Give me twenty-five that will be enough; it is all I really need, for a fortnight at least.
-- There is no question about the truth of it, for it is not worthwhile lying for a fort-night; a fortnight of life is not itself worth having, which is a proof that I write nothing here but pure truth.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In less than a fortnight a ditch, twelve feet wide and six deep, was dug out in the hard ground of the plateau.
-- By the end of the first fortnight of December these works were finished, and Prospect Heights that is to say, a sort of irregular pentagon, having a perimeter of nearly four miles, surrounded by a liquid belt was completely protected from depredators of every description.
-- It naturally happened that game was more rare in those situations where there was hardly sufficient room to move; two or three large herbivorous animals were however killed during the last fortnight of April.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I spent more than a fortnight grubbing among the black ruins of the en-closure and on the beach where the boats had been burnt, looking for nails and other stray pieces of metal that might prove of service.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ah!But then they'll have taken 'em for a fortnight certain,' replied the child with a shrewd look; 'and people don't like moving when they're once settled.'
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