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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shortly after, the DUNCAN had left the American coast, and was running eastward, her sharp keel rapidly cutting her way through the waves of the Atlantic Ocean.
-- Fortunately hearing stood them in the stead of sight; shortly a nearer sound of water indicated that the confluence was at hand.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We came shortly after Sir Charles settled.
-- Instantly I made my way back to my room, and very shortly came the stealthy steps passing once more upon their return jour-ney.
-- 'My difficulty is the more formidable of the two, for Ithink that we shall very shortly get an explanation of yours, while mine may remain forever a mystery.
-- We must wish you good-morning now, Mrs. Lyons, and it is probable that you will very shortly hear from us again.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The terms are most reasonable, and I trust that your salary will very shortly prove amply sufficient for your -expenditure.
-- One day, when he had rid-den over to the town to see a creditor, the chief peasant of his village followed him shortly after, with the news that his house had been burnt down, and that his wife had perished with it, but his children were safe.
-- He went mad and died shortly after in the town hospital.
-- The general remarked her suspicions, and felt that a grand explanation must shortly take place which fact alarmed him much.
-- 'No, sir in the Bielomirsky; he changed into the latter shortly before his death.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am less concerned for the body of Patroclus, who will shortly become meat for the dogs and vultures of Troy, than for the safety of my own head and yours.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His sis-ters' uneasiness had been equally excited with my own; our coincidence of feeling was soon discovered, and, alike sen-sible that no time was to be lost in detaching their brother, we shortly resolved on joining him directly in London.
-- Miss Bennet's astonishment was soon lessened by the strong sisterly partiality which made any admiration of Elizabeth appear perfectly natural; and all surprise was shortly lost in other feelings.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mrs. Dashwood began shortly to give over every hope of the kind, and to be convinced, from the general drift of his discourse, that his assistance extended no farther than their maintenance for six months at Norland.
-- CHAPTER 11Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
-- But by an appeal to her affection for her mother, by representing the inconveniences which that indulgent mother must draw on herself, if (as would probably be the case) she consented to this increase of establishment, Marianne was shortly subdued; and she promised not to tempt her mother to such imprudent kindness by mentioning the offer, and to tell Willoughby when she saw him next, that it must be declined.
-- This desponding turn of mind, though it could not be communicated to Mrs. Dashwood, gave additional pain to them all in the parting, which shortly took place, and left an uncomfortable impression on Elinor's feelings especially, which required some trouble and time to subdue.
-- He shortly afterwards drew a chair close to hers, and, with a look which perfectly assured her of his good information, inquired after her sister.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shortly she would have to give up and go home.
-- He took no little satisfaction in telling each Mary, shortly after she arrived, something of what the art of the thing required.
-- "Say, Carrie," he said one morning, shortly after they had so established themselves, "I've invited my friend Hurstwood to come out some day and spend the evening with us."
-- Shortly now he would persuade Carrie and all would be satisfactory.
-- Shortly afterward he departed, and Carrie prepared for her meeting with Hurstwood.
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