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：
-- 'Let us not delay a moment, without some good and ob-vious cause.'
-- If a rock, or a rivulet, or a bit of earth harder than common, severed the links of the clew they fol-lowed, the true eye of the scout recovered them at a distance, and seldom rendered the delay of a single moment neces-sary.
-- Chapter 24 'Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay Dissolve the council, and their chief obey.
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：
-- He was a practical little fellow, and without delay set about making bread-and-milk.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- According to him, Neb's delay was ca used by some new circumstances which had induced him to prolong his search.
-- Cyrus Harding, therefore, resolved to proceed without any further delay to the fabrication of a strong rope ladder, which, once raised, would render Granite House completely inaccessible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding that there was nobody in sight, he presently returned into the house with his legal friend, protesting (as the child heard from the staircase), that there was a league and plot against him; that he was in danger of being robbed and plundered by a band of conspirators who prowled about the house at all seasons; and that he would delay no longer but take immediate steps for disposing of the property and returning to his own peaceful roof.
-- A small loaf and a morsel of cheese, therefore, were all she could afford, and with these she took her place in the boat again, and, after half an hour's delay during which the men were drinking at the public-house, proceeded on the journey.
-- Indeed, the poor little creature experienced so much trouble and delay from having to grope for these articles of dress in mud and kennel, and suffered in these researches so much jostling, pushing, squeezing and bandying from hand to hand, that by the time she reached the street in which the notary lived, she was fairly worn out and exhausted, and could not refrain from tears.
-- The ten minutes that ensued appeared an hour; but at the end of that time, a shivering figure led out the horses they required, and after another brief delay they were again in motion.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The justiciary was hurrying the case, and though he knew that the reading of the report would only bring ennui and delay the dinner, and that the prosecutor demanded it only because he had the right to do so, he could not refuse the request and gave his consent.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without further delay I determined to make myself arms and a fastness where I might sleep.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this triumph we were filled with hope and hurried upstairs without delay to the little room where he had slept so long and where his box had stood since the day of his arrival.
-- But it was plain that they meant nothing should delay their shot.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next day, the 5th of November, at twelve, the delay would (morally speaking) expire; after that time, Commander Farragut, faithful to his promise, was to turn the course to the south-east and abandon for ever the northern regions of the Pacific.
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