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：
-- But all this diligence and speed were not without an ob-ject.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being be-lated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
-- The scholars were hurried through their lessons without stopping at trifles; those who were nimble skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy had a smart application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed or help them over a tall word.
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：
-- They took the risk of running against one of the ship's officers and being hustled down the gangway with the toe of a boot to speed their going.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tide was already strong, for in three days the moon would be full, and it was enough to keep the boat in the center of the current, where it floated swiftly along between the high banks without its being necessary to increase its speed by the aid of the oars.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kit walked about, now with quick steps and now with slow; now lingering as some rider slackened his horse's pace and looked about him; and now darting at full speed up a bye-street as he caught a glimpse of some distant horseman going lazily up the shady side of the road, and promising to stop, at every door.
-- Thus invited, 'Grinder's lot' approached with redoubled speed and soon came up with the little party.
-- After lingering at the finger-post for a few minutes to see the stilts frisking away in the moonlight and the bearer of the drum toiling slowly after them, he blew a few notes upon the trumpet as a parting salute, and hastened with all speed to follow Mr Codlin.
-- He no sooner remembered this, than he hung up the cage with great precipitation, and hastily explaining the nature of his errand, went off at full speed to the appointed place.
-- The boy made all the speed he could, and Quilp led onward, constantly turning back to threaten him, and urge him to greater haste.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first- class car was far ahead of her, and while she was running the second-class cars passed her, then came with greater speed those of the third class.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little hands upon the dials that registered my speed raced round faster and faster.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let young Hawkins go at once to see his mother, with Redruth for a guard; and then both come full speed to Bristol.
-- cried Silver, leaping back a yard, as it seemed to me, with the speed and security of a trained gymnast.
-- Instantly I began to extricate myself and crawl back again, with what speed and silence I could manage, to the more open portion of the wood.
-- I was tired, at any rate; but had I been as fresh as when I rose, I could see it was in vain for me to contend in speed with such an adversary.
-- 18 Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day's FightingE made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided us from the stockade, and at every step we took the voices of the buccaneers rang nearer.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was going at the speed of thirteen knots and a half.
-- Under this the Abraham Lincoln attained the mean speed of nearly eighteen knots and a third an hour a considerable speed, but, nevertheless, insufficient to grapple with this gigantic cetacean.
-- And think what destruction such a mass would cause, if hurled with the speed of an express train against the hull of a vessel."
-- But vain excitement!The Abraham Lincoln checked its speed and made for the animal signalled, a simple whale, or common cachalot, which soon disappeared amidst a storm of abuse.
-- The speed of the Abraham Lincoln increased.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first days passed in an ecstasy of physical motion, sleighing, skiing, skating, moving in an intensity of speed and white light that surpassed life itself, and carried the souls of the human beings beyond into an inhuman abstraction of velocity and weight and eternal, frozen snow.
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