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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bustle and joy of such an arrival, the many to be talked to, welcomed, encouraged, and variously dispersed and disposed of, produced a noise and confusion which his nerves could not have borne un-der any other cause, nor have endured much longer even for this; but the ways of Hartfield and the feelings of her fa-ther were so respected by Mrs. John Knightley, that in spite of maternal solicitude for the immediate enjoyment of her little ones, and for their having instantly all the liberty and attendance, all the eating and drinking, and sleeping and playing, which they could possibly wish for, without the smallest delay, the children were never allowed to be long a disturbance to him, either in themselves or in any restless attendance on them.
-- Mr. Woodhouse was rather agitated by such harsh reflec-tions on his friend Perry, to whom he had, in fact, though unconsciously, been attributing many of his own feelings and expressions; but the soothing attentions of his daugh-ters gradually removed the present evil, and the immediate alertness of one brother, and better recollections of the oth-er, prevented any renewal of it.
-- Why had not Miss Woodhouse revived the former good old days of the room? She who could do any thing in Highbury!The want of proper families in the place, and the conviction that none beyond the place and its immediate environs could be tempted to attend, were mentioned; but he was not satis-fied.
-- There was no immediate appearance.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To-day the large side doors were thrown open towards the sun to admit a bountiful light to the immediate spot of the shearers' operations, which was the wood threshing-floor in the centre, formed of thick oak, black with age and polished by the beating of flails for many generations, till it had grown as slippery and as rich in hue as the state-room floors of an Elizabethan mansion.
-- A poplar in the immediate foreground was like an ink stroke on burnished tin.
-- He endeavoured to put off the immediate and painful subject of their thoughts by remarking gently, "If you'll come back again, miss ma'am, and hand up a few more; it would save much time."
-- Suddenly, as in a last attempt to save Bathsheba from, at any rate, immediate anguish, he looked again, as he had looked before, at the chalk writing upon the coffin-lid.
-- Bathsheba indulged in contemplations of escape from her position by immediate death, which, thought she, though it was an inconvenient and awful way, had limits to its inconvenience and awfulness that could not be overpassed; whilst the shames of life were measureless.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hang-ing in the stars and ready to envelop me.
-- The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries, but I saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields.
-- I had heard of some discoveries having been made by an English philoso-pher, the knowledge of which was material to my success, and I sometimes thought of obtaining my father's consent to visit England for this purpose; but I clung to every pre-tence of delay and shrank from taking the first step in an undertaking whose immediate necessity began to appear less absolute to me.
-- Tell me, there-fore, whether you object to an immediate solemnization of the marriage.
-- I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His thunderous predictions of immediate war and his rhetorical questions as to whether the Southwould stand for further insults from the Yankees only produced faintly bored, "Yes, Papas" and "No, Pas."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they are wanted for immediate service, will you throw your eye over them?"
-- Without mentioning any names or going into any details, I gave him to understand that if he was aware of anybody--Tom, Jack, or Richard--being about the chambers, or about the immediate neighborhood, he had better get Tom, Jack, or Richard out of the way while you were out of the way."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A breach in one single pane of glass would have been immediate death: nor could any thing have pre-served the windows, but the strong lattice wires placed on the outside, against accidents in travelling.
-- I therefore told my master, 'that in the country whence I came, those of my kind always covered their bodies with the hairs of certain animals prepared by art, as well for decency as to avoid the inclemencies of air, both hot and cold; of which, as to my own person, I would give him immediate conviction, if he pleased to command me: only desiring his excuse, if I did not expose those parts that nature taught us to conceal.'
-- Neither is reason among them a point problematical, as with us, where men can argue with plau-sibility on both sides of the question, but strikes you with immediate conviction; as it must needs do, where it is not 341mingled, obscured, or discoloured, by passion and interest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His cold eyes would hardly have been eyes, but for the short ends of lashes which, by bringing them into immediate contrast with something paler than themselves, expressed their form.
-- When I consider your character; when I consider that what has been known to me for hours, has been concealed by you for years; when I consider under what immediate pressure it has been forced from you at last; I come to the conclusion that I cannot but mistrust myself.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If, then, the steam remains in its normal or habitual state, if their energy does not increase, and if you add to this, the remark that the wind is not replaced by heavy atmospheric pressure and dead calm, you may be quite sure that there is no fear of any immediate eruption."
-- CHAPTER 22 SUNDAY BELOW GROUND I Awoke on Sunday morning without any sense of hurry and bustle attendant on an immediate departure.
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