immediate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 立即的， 即时的； 直接的， 最接近的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was not addressed to Scrooge, or to any one whom he could see, but it produced an immediate effect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an immediate dispersal for these restoratives, and she softly laid the patient on a sofa, and tended her with great skill and gentleness: calling her 'my precious!'
-- 'Is it the immediate object of this confidence, that you may at once ascertain that, with my knowledge?'
-- In conjunction with Miss Pross, he took immediate steps towards the latter pre-caution, by giving out that the Doctor was not well, and required a few days of complete rest.
-- He saw that the spy was fearful of his drinking himself into a fit state for the immediate denunciation of him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thought of immediate action binding her to her son, of going away somewhere with him, gave her this consolation.
-- He could not now reconcile his immediate past, his tenderness, his love for his sick wife, and for the other man's child with what was now the case, that is with the fact that, as it were, in return for all this he now found himself alone, put to shame, a laughing-stock, needed by no one, and despised by everyone.
-- But these questions of the present were succeeded by questions of the immediate future.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The idea struck him to change his garments for clothes more in harmony with his project; by which he might also get a little money to satisfy the immediate cravings of hunger.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They heard Dr. Carr, to the pale admiration of the school-bound assistant professors, boom genially of working with Schmiedeberg in Germany on the isolation of dihydroxypentamethylendiamin, of the possibilities of chemotherapy, of the immediate cure of sleeping sickness, of the era of scientific healing.
-- He admired Dean Silva's insistence on the physician's immediate service to mankind, but he could not forget the cool ascetic hours in the laboratory.
-- He replied that while he could see the value of basic research, the medical school belonged to the people of the state, and its task was to provide them with immediate and practical attention.
-- I have given your results the most careful consideration, Martin; I have talked them over with Dr. Gottlieb--though I must say he does not altogether share my enthusiasm about immediate practical results.
-- He had seen the suffering of the plague and he had (though he still resisted) been tempted to forget experimentation, to give up the possible saving of millions for the immediate saving of thousands.
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：
-- Certain essential facts which required immediate consider-ation were particularly irksome to him.
-- Yet he felt at once that that was not the only cause of his uneasiness; there was something requiring immediate decision, but it was some-thing he could not clearly understand or put into words.
-- Strange to say, none would have believed it perhaps, but he only felt a faint vague anxiety about his immediate future.
-- The logical connection of the present with his immediate departure and the absolute necessity of visiting them for that purpose in pouring rain at midnight was not made clear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this brief introduction, she produced from herpocket an advertisement, carefully cut out of a newspaper, settingforth that in Buckingham Street in the Adelphi there was to be let 330furnished, with a view of the river, a singularly desirable andcompact set of chambers, forming a genteel residence for a younggentleman, a member of one of the Inns of Court, or otherwise,with immediate possession.
-- I am, however, delighted to addthat I have now an immediate prospect of something turning up (Iam not at liberty to say in what direction), which I trust will enableme to provide, permanently, both for myself and for your friendTraddles, in whom I have an unaffected interest.
-- I had it in mythoughts to remonstrate with him upon his desperate way ofpursuing any fancy that he took- such as this buffeting of roughseas, and bracing of hard weather, for example- when my mindglanced off to the immediate subject of our conversation again, andpursued that instead.
-- Therefore she begged to be excused from any further attendance onthe top set, until things were as they formerly was, and as theycould be wished to be; and further mentioned that her little bookwould be found upon the breakfast-table every Saturday morning,when she requested an immediate settlement of the same, with thebenevolent view of saving trouble, 'and an illconwenience' to allparties.
-- Under the temporary pressure of pecuniary liabilities,contracted with a view to their immediate liquidation, butremaining unliquidated through a combination of circumstances, Ihave been under the necessity of assuming a garb from which mynatural instincts recoil- I allude to spectacles- and possessingmyself of a cognomen, to which I can establish no legitimatepretensions.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some time she was amused, without thinking be-yond the immediate cause; but as she came to understand the family better, other feelings arose.
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