presently是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 一会儿， 不久； 现在， 目前，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The portly Sylvie presently came up to tell her mistress that a girl too pretty to be honest, "dressed like a goddess," and not a speck of mud on her laced cashmere boots, had glided in from the street like a snake, had found the kitchen, and asked for M. Goriot's room.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was silent and presently retired to his cabin.
-- We ascended into my room, and the servant presently brought breakfast; but I was unable to contain myself.
-- Presently Ernest came, and enquired if we had seen his brother; he said, that he had been playing with him, that William had run away to hide himself, and that he vainly sought for him, and afterwards waited for a long time, but that he did not return.
-- Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier.
-- I walked and, I believe, descend-ed, but I presently found a great alteration in my sensations.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But presently I looked over my shoulder, and saw him going on again towards the river, still hugging himself in both arms, and picking his way with his sore feet among the great stones dropped into the marshes here and there, for stepping-places when the rains were heavy or the tide was in.
-- Presently we saw other torches kindled at some distance behind us, and others on the marshes on the opposite bank of the river.
-- Camilla presently went on (I knew they had all been looking at me in the mean time), "he is so very strange!Would anyone believe that when Tom's wife died, he actually could not be induced to see the importance of the children's having the deepest of trimmings to their mourning?
-- In the heavy air of the room, and the heavy darkness that brooded in its remoter corners, I even had an alarming fancy that Estella and I might presently begin to decay.
-- She said no more at the time; but she presently stopped and looked at me again; and presently again; and after that, looked frowning and moody.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just as eleven of them had done blessing her, a great noise was heard in the courtyard, and word was brought that the thirteenth fairy was come, with a black cap on her head, and black shoes on her feet, and a broomstick in her hand: and presently up she came into the dining- hall.
-- Then the fox got up behind; and presently the wolf, the bear, the goat, and all the beasts of the wood, came and climbed upon the hearse.
-- Presently the bird came in and wanted to serve up the dinner, but he could nowhere see the cook.
-- She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker's oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out 122 Grimms' Fairy Talesto her, 'Take us out, take us out, or alas!we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.'
-- Presently she came to the apple-tree.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I presently knew what they meant, and was glad at heart to receive this intelligence.
-- The mother, out of pure indulgence, took me up, and put me towards the child, who presently seized me by the middle, and got my head into his mouth, where I roared so loud that the urchin was frighted, and let me drop, and I should infallibly have broke my neck, if the mother had not held her apron under me.
-- I dispatched four of them, but the rest got away, and I presently shut my window.
-- He put his hoof three or four times to them, as if he would signify, that I should reduce them to their former shape, which I presently did, pulling off both my gloves, and putting them into my pock-et.
-- This I presently discovered, for, going as soon as I was dressed to pay my attendance upon his honour, he asked me 'the meaning of what his servant had reported, that I was not the same thing when I slept, as I appeared to be at other times; that his vale assured him, some part of me was white, some yellow, at least not so white, and some brown.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They heard the doors of rooms above, opening and shutting as Sissy went from one to another in quest of her father; and presently they heard voices expressing surprise.
-- That bereaved lady, fifteen years older than he, fell presently at deadly feud with her only relative, Lady Scadgers; and, partly to spite her ladyship, and partly to maintain herself, went out at a salary.
-- I said all the affectionate things to him that came into my heart, and presently he was quiet and I sat down by him, and told him all about the school and everything that had been said and done there.
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