shortly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 立刻， 不久； 不耐烦地， 简慢地，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Either Saint Antoine had an instinctive sense that the objectionable decoration was gone, or Saint Antoine was on the watch for its disappear-ance; howbeit, the Saint took courage to lounge in, very shortly afterwards, and the wine-shop recovered its habit-262 A tale of two citiesual aspect.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His brother had been the person nearest to his heart, but he had a post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was always abroad, where he had died shortly after Alexey Alexandrovitch's marriage.
-- Shortly after his separation from his wife, he began writing his first note on the new judicial procedure, the first of the endless series of notes he was destined to write in the future.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fix had gone on shore shortly after Mr. Fogg, and his first destination was the headquarters of the Bombay police.
-- It was Passepartout; and what had happened to him was as follows: Shortly after Fix left the opium den, two waiters had lifted the unconscious Passepartout, and had carried him to the bed reserved for the smokers.
-- Shortly before the detachment arrived, Passepartout and his companions had begun to struggle with their captors, three of whom the Frenchman had felled with his fists, when his master and the soldiers hastened up to their relief.
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：
-- And beware, dear Rodya, when he comes to Petersburg, as he shortly will do, beware of judging him too hastily and severely, as your way is, if there is anything you do not like in him at first sight.
-- 'I only meant to say that I beg your forgiveness, mother,' he concluded, shortly and abruptly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The legend added that the onlyperson who did not identify them was the Doctor himself, who, 227when they were shortly afterwards displayed at the door of a littlesecond-hand shop of no very good repute, where such things weretaken in exchange for gin, was more than once observed to handlethem approvingly, as if admiring some curious novelty in thepattern, and considering them an improvement on his own.
-- Inpursuance of my aunt's kind scheme, I was shortly afterwardsfitted out with a handsome purse of money, and a portmanteau,and tenderly dismissed upon my expedition.
-- Shortly afterwards, we were very high up in a veryhot theatre, looking down into a large pit, that seemed to me tosmoke; the people with whom it was crammed were so indistinct.
-- You find me,fallen back, for a spring; and I have every reason to believe that avigorous leap will shortly be the result.'
-- I know that my aunt distressed Dora's aunts verymuch, by utterly setting at naught the dignity of fly-conveyance,and walking out to Putney at extraordinary times, as shortly after 558breakfast or just before tea; likewise by wearing her bonnet in anymanner that happened to be comfortable to her head, without at alldeferring to the prejudices of civilisation on that subject.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shortly afterwards Miss Bates, passing near the window, descried Mr. Knightley on horse-back not far off.
-- Alas!such delightful proofs of Hartfield's attraction, as those sort of visits conveyed, might shortly be over.
-- 'It will be natural for me,' he added shortly afterwards, 'to speak my opinion aloud as I read.
-- 'I have scarce had the pleasure of seeing you, Miss Wood-house,' she shortly afterwards began, 'since the party to Box Hill.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boldwood likewise vanished up the road, and Oak shortly afterwards turned indoors to bed.
-- I shall shortly leave the army because of the same conviction.
-- Shortly afterwards he had gone from the village.
-- At the end of half-an-hour a faint dust was seen in the expected quarter, and shortly after a travelling-carriage, bringing one of the two judges on the Western Circuit, came up the hill and halted on the top.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the second daughter, who had first come in the morning to see her father, came shortly afterwards in the evening.
-- Christophe went up, and shortly afterwards came down again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Pocket, Junior's, idea of Shortly was not mine, for I had nearly maddened myself with looking out for half an hour, and had written my name with my finger several times in the dirt of every pane in the window, before I heard footsteps on the stairs.
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