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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a tenderly-shaped reproach for his previous delay was the one speech in the language that he could pardon for not being commendation of his readiness now.
-- Visions of several unhappy contingencies which might arise from this delay flitted before him.
-- Boldwood felt his love to be so deep and strong and eternal, that it was possible she had never yet known its full volume, and this patience in delay would afford him an opportunity of giving sweet proof on the point.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be impossible to give an idea of the old, rotten, shaky, cranky, worm-eaten, halt, maimed, one-eyed, rickety, and ramshackle condition of the furniture without an exhaustive description, which would delay the progress of the story to an extent that impatient people would not pardon.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt this delay very bitterly, for I longed to see my native town and my beloved friends.
-- I had heard of some discoveries having been made by an English philoso-pher, the knowledge of which was material to my success, and I sometimes thought of obtaining my father's consent to visit England for this purpose; but I clung to every pre-tence of delay and shrank from taking the first step in an undertaking whose immediate necessity began to appear less absolute to me.
-- Do not suppose, however, that I wish to dictate happiness to you or that a delay on your part would cause me any serious uneasiness.
-- He could not any longer delay his departure; but as his journey to London might be followed, even sooner than he now conjectured, by his longer voyage, he entreated me to bestow as much of my society on him as I could spare.
-- It was neces-sary that I should return without delay to Geneva, there to watch over the lives of those I so fondly loved and to lie in wait for the murderer, that if any chance led me to the place of his concealment, or if he dared again to blast me by his presence, I might, with unfailing aim, put an end to the existence of the monstrous image which I had endued with the mockery of a soul still more monstrous.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The delay would give her time to quiet her breathing and calm her face so thathis suspicions would not be aroused.
-- Generally when tomorrow came, the thought either did not occurat all or it was so attenuated by the delay it was not very troublesome.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last she came to Mother Holle's house, and as she had heard all about the large teeth from her sister, she was not afraid of them, and engaged herself without delay to the old woman.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had now a day before us, a delay of about ten hours.
-- I asked, considerably puzzled by the delay and the dialogue.
-- So great a distance was it now from its fiery source that its water was scarcely lukewarm, and could be drunk without delay or difficulty.
-- A short delay between question and answer.
-- After a delay of forty-eight hours, on the 30th of September a little vessel took us to Messina, where a few days of delightful and complete repose restored us to ourselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clennam besought him not to delay a moment.
-- 'I was saying,' she pursued, 'that my brother's illness has occasioned a delay in examining and arranging papa's property.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father is as regular as the sun, but there's some delay on the way, perhaps.'
-- Another hour, still no one came, and anxious fears of delay in the storm, or accidents by the way, or, worst of all, a great grief at Washington, haunted the girls.
-- It was very hard to do, but she did it, know-ing that delay was both useless and cruel.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when that functionary appeared before him, he bade him without delay set about making a new leg, and directed the mates to see him supplied with all the studs and joists of jaw-ivory (Sperm Whale) which had thus far been accumulated on the voyage, in order that a careful selection of the stoutest, clearest-grained stuff might be secured.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The driver wanted no directions, but lashed his horse into full speed, without the delay of an instant.
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