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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain gave immediate orders for the yacht to continue her route, steering to the west of the Canary group, and leaving Teneriffe on her larboard.
-- As he had no certainty, however, of any immediate danger, he did not wake his companions, who were sleeping soundly after their fatigue, and after a little dozed off himself, and slumbered heavily for some hours.
-- As soon as he consented to Paganel's proposition, he gave immediate orders to make arrangements for the journey with as little delay as possible.
-- The quartermaster made immediate preparations for departure, assisted by the two sailors, one of whom saw to the horse and the other to the provisions.
-- The DUNCAN was no longer available, and even an immediate return to their own land was out of the question.
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：
-- 'Thank you!Now, Cartwright, there are the names of twenty-three hotels here, all in the immediate neighbourhood of Charing Cross.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She spoke angrily, and in great excitement, and expect-ed an immediate reply.
-- But there were many other puzzling occurrences that day, which required immediate explanation, and the prince felt very sad.
-- At times Lizabetha Prokofievna put this question to her husband, and as usual she spoke in the threatening tone of one who demands an immediate answer.
-- This evening there were no strangers present no one but the immediate members of the family.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His own father did not long survive mine, and within half a year from these events, Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me that, having finally resolved against taking orders, he hoped I should not think it unreasonable for him to expect some more immediate pecuniary advantage, in lieu of the pre-ferment, by which he could not be benefited.
-- 'My father is gone to London, and Jane has written to beg my uncle's immediate assistance; and we shall be off, I hope, in half-an-hour.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was ready to burst with holding my breath, when, as I felt myself rising up, so, to my immediate relief, I found my head and hands shoot out above the surface of the water; and though it was not two seconds of time that I could keep myself so, yet it relieved me greatly, gave me breath, and new courage.
-- In the next place, it occurred to me that although the usage they gave one another was thus brutish and inhuman, yet it was really nothing to me: these people had done me no injury: that if they attempted, or I saw it necessary, for my immediate preservation, to fall upon them, something might be said for it: but that I was yet out of their power, and they re-ally had no knowledge of me, and consequently no design upon me; and therefore it could not be just for me to fall upon them; that this would justify the conduct of the Span-iards in all their barbarities practised in America, where they destroyed millions of these people; who, however they were idolators and barbarians, and had several bloody and barbarous rites in their customs, such as sacrificing human bodies to their idols, were yet, as to the Spaniards, very in-nocent people; and that the rooting them out of the country is spoken of with the utmost abhorrence and detestation by even the Spaniards themselves at this time, and by all other Christian nations of Europe, as a mere butchery, a bloody and unnatural piece of cruelty, unjustifiable either to God or man; and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reck-oned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or of Christian compassion; as if the kingdom of Spain were particularly eminent for the produce of a race of men who were without principles of tenderness, or the common bow-els of pity to the miserable, which is reckoned to be a mark of generous temper in the mind.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe; but his temper was cheerful and sanguine; and he might reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically, lay by a considerable sum from the produce of an estate already large, and capable of almost immediate improvement.
-- Mrs. Dashwood took the house for a twelvemonth; it was ready furnished, and she might have immediate possession.
-- The immediate advantage to herself was by no means inconsiderable, for it supplied her with endless jokes against them both.
-- "I rather think you are mistaken, for when I was talking to her yesterday of getting a new grate for the spare bedchamber, she observed that there was no immediate hurry for it, as it was not likely that the room would be wanted for some time."
-- Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him on the subject of books; her favourite authors were brought forward and dwelt upon with so rapturous a delight, that any young man of five and twenty must have been insensible indeed, not to become an immediate convert to the excellence of such works, however disregarded before.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie could not guess but that it was pleasure with him in the immediate thing.
-- They called for no immediate decision, and could not be answered.
-- The question was not up for immediate decision.
-- he answered, expecting her eye to light with immediate remembrance.
-- Hurstwood was now fully aroused to the immediate difficulty, and ceased to think of his own situation.
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