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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would not delay an instant, but went straight on to the house of Mr. Bentic, her Majesty's Consul, who received them very courteously, and, on learning their errand, undertook to make inquiries all along the coast.
-- "And that would delay us?"
-- However, Thalcave would not give in, and though every instant's delay but increased the danger, the discussion continued.
-- We are close on the trade winds, and if we get them ever so little in our teeth, it will delay us greatly."
-- As soon as he consented to Paganel's proposition, he gave immediate orders to make arrangements for the journey with as little delay as possible.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having engaged his room, he was asked by the waiter whether he would take dinner; replying mechanically in the affirmative, he sat down and waited; but it was not long before it struck him that dining would delay him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he said 'Hapless and dearest comrade, you it was who would get a good dinner ready for me at once and without delay when the Achaeans were hasting to fight the Trojans; now, there-fore, though I have meat and drink in my tents, yet will I fast for sorrow.
-- This might cause delay in the delivery of the body.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, the instant's delay brought Rikki-tikki up to her, and as she plunged into the rat-hole where she and Nag used to live, his little white teeth were clenched on her tail, and he went down with her and very few mongooses, however wise and old they may be, care to follow a cobra into its hole.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yielding to his powerful interest in the subject, and impatient of a delay that seemed fraught with so much additional danger, Heyward drew still nigher to the dusky group, with an intention of making his offers of compensa-tion more definite, when the white man, motioning with his hand, as if he conceded the disputed point, turned away, saying in a sort of soliloquy, and in the English tongue: 'Uncas is right!it would not be the act of men to leave such harmless things to their fate, even though it breaks up the harboring place forever.
-- 'So much the more reason why we should not delay our march,' returned Heyward; 'let us proceed.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In addition to the pain and delay attendant on a broken limb, his exposure to the wet and cold had brought on fever and ague: which hung about him for many weeks, and reduced him sadly.
-- My feelings remain unchanged, as they ever will; and why should I suffer the pain of a delay in giving them vent, which can be productive of no earthly good?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Allowing the case, however, to stand according to your representa-tion, you must remember, Miss Bennet, that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, and the delay of his plan, has merely desired it, asked it without offering one argument in favour of its propriety.'
-- They were then, with no other delay than his pointing out the neatness of the entrance, taken into the house; and as soon as they were in the parlour, he wel-comed them a second time, with ostentatious formality to his humble abode, and punctually repeated all his wife's of-fers of refreshment.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it is not in my power to delay my journey for one day!"
-- With such encouragement as this, was she dismissed on the present occasion, to her brother's carriage; which they were ready to enter five minutes after it stopped at the door, a punctuality not very agreeable to their sister-in-law, who had preceded them to the house of her acquaintance, and was there hoping for some delay on their part that might inconvenience either herself or her coachman.
-- This delay on the Colonel's side, however, did not seem to offend or mortify his fair companion in the least, for on their breaking up the conference soon afterwards, and moving different ways, Mrs. Jennings very plainly heard Elinor say, and with a voice which shewed her to feel what she said,"I shall always think myself very much obliged to you."
-- One day's delay will not be very material; and till I have written to Mr. Ferrars, I think it ought not to be mentioned to any body else.
-- Not a moment was lost in delay of any kind.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time, she would not delay to inflict any injury, big or little, which would wound the object of her revenge and still leave him uncertain as to the source of the evil.
-- "Say," he said, rising, putting a note of determination in his voice which caused her to delay her departure, "what's the matter with you of late?
-- It seemed as if this paltry sum would delay the desired culmination longer than all the rest had.
-- Some one was at the head showing rooms, so that there was no delay for keys.
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