ahead是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 在前面(头) ； 向(朝) 前； 提前，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Were her tiredeyes playing her tricks? the white bricks of Tara blurred and indistinct Home!Home!The dear white walls, thewindows with the fluttering curtains, the wide verandas were they all there ahead of her, in the gloom?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had not gone far when three cannon were fired ahead of us with a sound that seemed to burst something inside my ear.
-- As we neared home, Joe vaguely acknowledging the occasion as an impressive and ceremonious one, went on ahead to open the front door.
-- Drummle and I then sat snorting at one another for an hour, while the Grove engaged in indiscriminate contradiction, and finally the promotion of good feeling was declared to have gone ahead at an amazing rate.
-- Early as it was, there were plenty of scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges dropping down with the tide; the navigation of the river between bridges, in an open boat, was a much easier and commoner matter in those days than it is in these; and we went ahead among many skiffs and wherries briskly.
-- We had all shaken hands cordially, and neither Herbert's eyes nor mine were quite dry, when I saw a four-oared galley shoot out from under the bank but a little way ahead of us, and row out into the same track.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He waited till it was darker and people had begun to light up their houses, and then seeing a little glimmer ahead of him, he went towards it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have not the slightest anxiety about him: that sort of people go ahead without knowing even what they are about.
-- He was about to make some energetic observation to the guide, but Hans, without taking the slightest notice of him, went in front of the horses, and walked ahead with the same imperturbable phlegm he had always exhibited.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wanted nothing more than what she'd got; only she wanted to get ahead with what she'd got: Clifford, the stories, Wragby, the Lady-Chatterley business, money and fame, such as it was...she wanted to go ahead with it all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, John, being in that state of mind in which nothing would seem to be more impossible to a certain class of people than the giving of an answer, went ahead blindly.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There are some sailors running ahead there, if I see right," said I to Queequeg, "it can't be shadows; she's off by sunrise, I guess; come on!"
-- Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided the furthest to windward, was still ranging ahead of the other boats; a circumstance bespeaking how potent a crew was pulling him.
-- "Pull, pull, my good boys," said Starbuck, in the lowest possible but intensest concentrated whisper to his men; while the sharp fixed glance from his eyes darted straight ahead of the bow, almost seemed as two visible needles in two unerring binnacle compasses.
-- "I tell thee again, Gabriel, that " But again the boat tore ahead as if dragged by fiends.
-- But having plenty of line yet in the tubs, and the whale not sounding very rapidly, they paid out abundance of rope, and at the same time pulled with all their might so as to get ahead of the ship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Off he starts once more, with Chickweed half-way down the street ahead of him; and after twice as long a run as the yesterday's one, the man's lost again!This was done, once or twice more, till one-half the neighbours gave out that Mr. Chickweed had been robbed by the devil, who was playing tricks with him arterwards; and the other half, that poor Mr. Chickweed had gone mad with grief.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got up out of my cabin and looked out; but such a dismal sight I never saw: the sea ran mountains high, and broke upon us every three or four minutes; when I could look about, I could see nothing but distress round us; two ships that rode near us, we found, had cut their masts by the board, being deep laden; and our men cried out that a ship which rode about a mile ahead of us was foundered.
-- We worked on; but the water increasing in the hold, it was apparent that the ship would founder; and though the storm began to abate a little, yet it was not possible she could swim till we might run into any port; so the master continued firing guns for help; and a light ship, who had rid it out just ahead of us, ventured a boat out to help us.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There she found other girls ahead of her, applicants like herself, but with more of that self-satisfied and independent air which experience of the city lends; girls who scrutinised her in a painful manner.
-- The thought of the latter turned his mind into a most pleasant vein, and he wandered how he would get ahead of the drummer.
-- Now you go ahead and see."
-- This man was far ahead of her.
-- The man ahead had been paid for and gone to the blessed line of success.
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