speed是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 速度， 快v. 迅速， 前进， 急行； 加速， 使加速，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked at the work upon the table, and praised the industry and speed of Mrs Cratchit and the girls.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through gloomy vaults where the light of day had never shone, past hideous doors of dark dens and cages, down cav-ernous flights of steps, and again up steep rugged ascents of stone and brick, more like dry waterfalls than staircases, De-farge, the turnkey, and Jacques Three, linked hand and arm, went with all the speed they could make.
-- Carton, pressing forward, had already, with the speed of lightning, got him down into it, and stood over him, barefoot.
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：
-- As to ourselves, we all know the speed produced by the employment of steam; we have experienced it either on rail-roads, or in boats when crossing the sea; but such a flight is like the travelling of a sloth in comparison with the velocity with which light moves.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin rose to his feet, took off his overcoat, and scurrying over the rough ice round the hut, came out on the smooth ice and skated without effort, as it were, by simple exercise of will, increasing and slackening speed and turning his course.
-- Chapter 22 The rain did not last long, and by the time Vronsky arrived, his shaft-horse trotting at full speed and dragging the trace-horses galloping through the mud, with their reins hanging loose, the sun had peeped out again, the roofs of the summer villas and the old limetrees in the gardens on both sides of the principal streets sparkled with wet brilliance, and from the twigs came a pleasant drip and from the roofs rushing streams of water.
-- The new commission for the inquiry into the condition of the native tribes in all its branches had been formed and despatched to its destination with an unusual speed and energy inspired by Alexey Alexandrovitch.
-- Three minutes later Levin ran full speed into the corridor, not looking at his watch for fear of aggravating his sufferings.
-- He went downstairs, but before he had time to leave his study he heard his wife's familiar footsteps running with reckless speed to him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon after, Phileas Fogg, Sir Francis Cromarty, and Passepartout, installed in a carriage with Aouda, who had the best seat, were whirling at full speed towards Benares.
-- Everything had gone so well till now!Earth and sea had seemed to be at his master's service; steamers and railways obeyed him; wind and steam united to speed his journey.
-- The pilot had hung out his lights, which was very necessary in these seas crowded with vessels bound landward; for collisions are not uncommon occurrences, and, at the speed she was going, the least shock would shatter the gallant little craft.
-- The Tankadere bore sail admirably, as she drew a great deal of water, and everything was prepared for high speed in case of a gale.
-- The log indicated a mean speed of between eight and nine miles.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Thou speakest as one having tongues and who putteth the speed behind the ole rhombencephalon comprising the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata."
-- Chapter 17 Dr. Coughlin of Leopolis had a red mustache, a large heartiness, and a Maxwell which, though it was three years old this May and deplorable as to varnish, he believed to be the superior in speed and beauty of any motor in Dakota.
-- At the end Martin had the most enthusiastic applause ever known-- all lecturers, after all lectures, are gratified by that kind of applause--and the chairman said the most flattering things ever uttered, and the audience went out with the most remarkable speed ever witnessed, and Martin discovered himself holding Orchid's hand in the parlors while she warbled, in the most adorable voice ever heard, "Oh, Dr. Arrowsmith, you were just wonderful!Most of these lecturers are old stuffs, but you put it right over!I'm going to do a dash home and tell Dad.
-- At four, the Arrowsmiths had been accepted by the most desperately Smart Set of Nautilus, and at four-thirty they were driven home, at a speed neither legal nor kind, by Clay Tredgold.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The river would have been seen by day to be of that deep smooth sort which races middle and sides with the same gliding precision, any irregularities of speed being immediately corrected by a small whirlpool.
-- But she's dead, and no speed of ours will bring her to life.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitat-ed form hardly appeared capable.
-- I saw him descend the moun-tain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sat upright and gave Prissy a push to speed her feet.
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