delay是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 耽搁， 延迟，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：
-- After some delay and demur, the door grudgingly turned on its hinges a very little way, and allowed Mr. Jerry Crunch-er to squeeze himself into court.
-- The burning of the body (previously reduced to pieces convenient for the purpose) was com-menced without delay in the kitchen fire; and the tools, shoes, and leather, were buried in the garden.
-- More than enough of bad roads, bad equipages, and bad horses, he would have en-countered to delay him, though the fallen and unfortunate King of France had been upon his throne in all his glory; but, the changed times were fraught with other obstacles than these.
-- Noon coming, and the Doctor not returning, and every minute's delay tending to compromise Tellson's, Mr. Lorry advised with Lucie.
-- 'Remember these words to-morrow: change the course, or delay in it for any reason and no life can possibly be saved, and many lives must inevitably be sacrificed.'
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：
-- 'That is probably a wax-work show,' thought he; 'and the people delay taking down their sign in hopes of a late visi-tor or two.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was afraid that her daughter, who had at one time, as she fancied, a feeling for Levin, might, from extreme sense of honor, refuse Vronsky, and that Levin's arrival might generally complicate and delay the affair so near being concluded.
-- The question of the Native Tribes had been brought up incidentally in the Commission of the 2nd of June, and had been pressed forward actively by Alexey Alexandrovitch as one admitting of no delay on account of the deplorable condition bf the native tribes.
-- In the first class he put the debts which he would have to pay at once, or for which he must in any case have the money ready so that on demand for payment there could not be a moment's delay in paying.
-- But she could not but agree with Levin that to fix it for after Lent would be putting it off too late, as an old aunt of Prince Shtcherbatsky's was seriously ill and might die, and then the mourning would delay the wedding still longer.
-- Then the long delay began to be positively discomforting, and relations and guests tried to look as if they were not thinking of the bridegroom but were engrossed in conversation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communication; should Phileas Fogg once miss, even by an hour; a steamer, he would have to wait for the next, and that would irrevocably render his attempt vain.
-- Send with out delay warrant of arrest to Bombay.
-- Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty exchanged a few words from time to time, and now Sir Francis, reviving the conversation, observed, "Some years ago, Mr. Fogg, you would have met with a delay at this point which would probably have lost you your wager."
-- "Such a delay would not have deranged my plans in the least," said Mr. Fogg.
-- "Mr. Fogg, this is a delay greatly to your disadvantage."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He cursed the delay involved in the growth of the bacteria, without which he could not discover the effect of the various sorts of broths and bacterial strains, but choked his impatience.
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：
-- But at the first turning he stopped and, after a minute's thought, turned into a side street and went two streets out of his way, possibly without any object, or pos-sibly to delay a minute and gain time.
-- I had to have something to cling to, something to delay me, some friendly face to see!And I dared to believe in myself, to dream of what I would do!I am a beggarly contemptible wretch, contemptible!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Something has happened to delay her; some visitors per-haps.'
-- They did as they were desired; and by the time she judged it reasonable to have done with her boot, she had the comfort of farther delay in her power, being overtaken by a child from the cottage, setting out, according to orders, with her pitcher, to fetch broth from Hartfield.
-- 'Yes; and every delay makes one more apprehensive of other delays.
-- They would feel that they could trust him; that the nephew who had done rightly by his father, would do rightly by them; for they know, as well as he does, as well as all the world must know, that he ought to pay this visit to his father; and while meanly exerting their power to delay it, are in their hearts not thinking the better of him for submitting to their whims.
-- Emma was most happy to be called to such a council; and her father, engaging to think it all over while she was gone, the two young people set off together without delay for the Crown.
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