speedy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 快速的，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：
-- A telegram next day gave hope of his speedy return, but in the evening a letter apprised her of the difficulties his proposition had met with, and the morning after brought another, in which he openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Admiralty.
-- The heat was already considerable, but not unbearable, and the road was smooth and good, and allowed the cavalcade to make speedy progress.
-- John Mangles felt the necessity of leaving without delay a vessel doomed to certain and speedy destruction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The slight devices with which she cheated herself into the show of a belief that they would soon be reunited the little preparations for his speedy return, the setting aside of his chair and his books these, and the solemn prayer at night for one dear prisoner especially, among the many unhappy souls in prison and the shadow of death were almost the only outspoken reliefs of her heavy mind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The barometer announced a speedy change, the mercury rising and falling capriciously; the sea also, in the south-east, raised long surges which indicated a tempest.
-- Captain Speedy began to scratch his head.
-- When Andrew Speedy had pocketed the money, Mr. Fogg said to him, "Don't let this astonish you, sir.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was properly received, drank coffee with us and 54 Crime and Punishmentthe very next day he sent us a letter in which he very courte-ously made an offer and begged for a speedy and decided answer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consigned to which, and to a speedy end (for mental torture is notsupportable beyond a certain point, and that point I feel I haveattained), my course is run.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 428 EmmaChapter VIAfter being long fed with hopes of a speedy visit from Mr. and Mrs. Suckling, the Highbury world were obliged to endure the mortification of hearing that they could not pos-sibly come till the autumn.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On you it rests, whether I quit forever the neighbourhood of man and lead a harmless life, or be-come the scourge of your fellow creatures and the author of your own speedy ruin.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds, to common sense and reason, to justice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and criminal causes; with some other obvious topics, which are not worth considering.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Little Dorrit's solicitude to get to her father, and to carry the joyful tidings to him, and not to leave him in his jail a moment with this happiness in store for him and still unknown to him, did more for her speedy restoration than all the skill and attention on earth could have done.
-- 'It will be necessary to find a milliner, my love, and to make a speedy and complete change in your very plain dress.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship, and finding no speedy vent runs roaring fore and aft, till the mariners come nigh to drowning while yet afloat.
-- His story was this:He had been originally nurtured among the crazy society of Neskyeuna Shakers, where he had been a great prophet; in their cracked, secret meetings having several times descended from heaven by the way of a trap-door, announcing the speedy opening of the seventh vial, which he carried in his vest-pocket; but, which, instead of containing gunpowder, was supposed to be charged with laudanum.
-- Meantime, Gabriel, ascending to the main-royal mast-head, was tossing one arm in frantic gestures, and hurling forth prophecies of speedy doom to the sacrilegious assailants of his divinity.
-- No speedy enterprise.
-- Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous river-capitals, where now the polite broker sells you land at a dollar an inch; in such a comparison an irresistible argument would seem furnished, to show that the hunted whale cannot now escape speedy extinction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, all was ready; and the little parcel having been handed up, with many injunctions and entreaties for its speedy delivery, the man set spurs to his horse, and rattling over the uneven paving of the market-place, was out of the town, and galloping along the turnpike-road, in a couple of minutes.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were all astonished; and Mr. Bennet, who could by no means wish for so speedy a return, immediately said: 'But is there not danger of Lady Catherine's disapproba-tion here, my good sir?
-- I have written to Colonel Forster, to inform him of our present arrangements, and to request that he will satisfy the various creditors of Mr. Wickham in and near Brighton, with assurances of speedy payment, for which I have pledged myself.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If her sisters intended to walk on the downs, she directly stole away towards the lanes; if they talked of the valley, she was as speedy in climbing the hills, and could never be found when the others set off.
-- Mr. Harris, who attended her every day, still talked boldly of a speedy recovery, and Miss Dashwood was equally sanguine; but the expectation of the others was by no means so cheerful.
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