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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gave the yacht such swiftness that during her trial trip in the Firth of Clyde, she made seventeen miles an hour, a higher speed than any vessel had yet attained.
-- At the same moment Lord Glenarvan gave the signal to start, and away went the mules along the coast, while the DUNCAN steamed out at full speed toward the broad ocean.
-- The only thing to be done was to wait patiently and press forward with all the speed in their power.
-- But even Thalcave did not catch the words, for his voice was drowned in the frightful uproar made by the wolves, who had dashed off at a tremendous speed on the track of the horse.
-- Next minute both men were galloping at full speed toward the west, in the line in which their companions ought to be advancing.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A small fly or moth had fluttered across our path, and in an instant Stapleton was rushing with extraordinary en-ergy and speed in pursuit of it.
-- I hurried along the road at the top of my speed with-out seeing anything of Sir Henry, until I came to the point where the moor path branches off.
-- We rushed over the brow of the hill, and there was our man running with great speed down the other side, springing over the stones in his way with the activity of a mountain goat.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when the south wind spreads a curtain of mist upon the mountain tops, bad for shepherds but better than night for thieves, and a man can see no further than he can throw a stone, even so rose the dust from under their feet as they made all speed over the plain.
-- She made a stream of fire flare from his shield and helmet like the star that shines most brilliantly in summer after its bath in the waters of Oceanus even such a fire did she kindle upon his head and shoulders as she bade him speed into the thickest hurly- burly of the fight.
-- Mount my chariot, and note how cleverly the horses of Tros can speed hither and thither over the plain in pursuit or flight.
-- He then remounted his own chariot, seized the reins, and drove with all speed in search of the son of Tydeus.
-- Hebe with all speed fitted on the eight-spoked wheels of bronze that were on either side of the iron axle-tree.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most of us now had lost the first speed of the chase, and had fallen into a longer and steadier stride.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Matkah taught him to follow the cod and the halibut along the under-sea banks and wrench the rockling out of his hole among the weeds; how to skirt the wrecks lying a hundred fathoms below water and dart like a rifle bullet in at one porthole and out at an-other as the fishes ran; how to dance on the top of the waves when the lightning was racing all over the sky, and wave his flipper politely to the stumpy-tailed Albatross and the Man-of-war Hawk as they went down the wind; how to jump three or four feet clear of the water like a dolphin, flippers close to the side and tail curved; to leave the flying fish alone because they are all bony; to take the shoulder-piece out of a cod at full speed ten fathoms deep, and never to stop and look at a boat or a ship, but particularly a row-boat.
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：
-- 'No; it would be better to mislead the imps, and make them believe they must equal a horse's speed to run down their chase.
-- 'Go to him, and say that you left them with a message to hasten to their aid,' returned Cora, advancing nigher to the scout in her generous ardor; 'that the Hurons bear them into the northern wilds, but that by vigilance and speed they may yet be rescued; and if, after all, it should please heaven that his assistance come too late, bear to him,' she continued, her voice gradually lowering, until it seemed nearly choked, 'the love, the blessings, the final prayers of his daughters, and bid him not mourn their early fate, but to look forward with humble confidence to the Christian's goal to meet his children.'
-- The latter did not, however, so much re-gret this circumstance, as it might enable him to retard the speed of the party; for he still turned his longing looks in the direction of Fort Edward, in the vain expectation of catching some sound from that quarter of the forest, which might denote the approach of succor.
-- Whether the path was hardly distinguishable, whether it disappeared, or whether it lay beaten and plain before him, made no sensible differ-ence in his speed or certainty.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie saw at once that an average speed was necessary or the work would pile up on her and all those below would be delayed.
-- With what speed must he get her, if he got her at all.
-- Hurstwood found, however, that handling a brake and regulating speed were not so instantly mastered as he had imagined.
-- The day was raw, with a sprinkling of snow and a gusty wind, made all the more intolerable by the speed of the car.
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