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 remember that they too trod down a sated generation, with just such clamor and with just such scorn, and they foresee that these brave torch-bearers will presently yield their place also.
-- Presently she looked up at me, sighed deeply, and smiled.
-- She went on, talking somewhat at random, now of the recent past, then of their first meeting and their marriage; but presently I began to form a fairly coherent picture of their lives; and it seemed to me that my surmises had not been incorrect.
-- I rang, and presently a waiter appeared.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In point of fact, it would seem that the waiter felt this wholesome truth, for when he returned for the empty plates and dishes and was informed by Mr Swiveller with dignified carelessness that he would call and settle when he should be passing presently, he displayed some perturbation of spirit and muttered a few remarks about 'payment on delivery' and 'no trust,' and other unpleasant subjects, but was fain to content himself with inquiring at what hour it was likely that the gentleman would call, in order that being presently responsible for the beef, greens, and sundries, he might take to be in the way at the time.
-- The dwarf said never a word, but watched his companion as he paced restlessly up and down the room, and presently returned to his seat.
-- Finding that there was nobody in sight, he presently returned into the house with his legal friend, protesting (as the child heard from the staircase), that there was a league and plot against him; that he was in danger of being robbed and plundered by a band of conspirators who prowled about the house at all seasons; and that he would delay no longer but take immediate steps for disposing of the property and returning to his own peaceful roof.
-- As they passed behind the church, they heard voices near at hand, and presently came on those who had spoken.
-- Nodding his approval of this decisive and manly course of procedure, the landlord retired to draw the beer, and presently returning with it, applied himself to warm the same in a small tin vessel shaped funnel-wise, for the convenience of sticking it far down in the fire and getting at the bright places.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently at the cell-door appeared a middle-sized, full-breasted young woman, dressed in a long, gray coat over a white waist and skirt.
-- Presently resounding steps were heard in the corridor, the lock creaked open, and two prisoners in short jackets and gray trousers scarcely reaching their ankles entered, and, raising the ill-smelling vat on a yoke, carried it away.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go.
-- The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day.
-- Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.
-- But presently a fresh series of impressions grew up in my mind a certain curiosity and therewith a certain dread until at last they took complete possession of me.
-- Everything still seemed grey, but presently I remarked that the confusion in my ears was gone.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently she began to fetch more and more to the westward, so that I thought they had sighted me and were going about in chase.
-- And one of the men left the log-house and presently returned with a lighted brand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had remained some steps behind, when I presently saw Captain Nemo coming hurriedly towards me.
-- Presently the pickaxe attacked this compact matter vigorously, and large blocks were detached from the mass.
-- Presently a white smoke burst from the fore part of the vessel; some seconds after, the water, agitated by the fall of a heavy body, splashed the stern of the Nautilus, and shortly afterwards a loud explosion struck my ear.
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：
-- They arrived at a large block of buildings, went up in a lift, and presently a door was being opened for them by a Hindu.
-- Presently Gerald opened the door.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently the whole chapel resounded with rappings and counter rappings: every man's hand was against his neighbour; and Branderham, unwilling to remain idle, poured forth his zeal in a shower of loud taps on the boards of the pulpit, which responded so smartly that, at last, to my unspeakable relief, they woke me.
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