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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This general was Ivan Fedorovitch's immediate superior in the service; and it pleased the latter to look upon him also as a patron.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A happy thought saved me, and as this drove slowly along I followed in its immediate wake, trembling and astonished at the turn of my adventure.
-- My most immediate problem was to get clothing.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Toward the southeast, but in immediate contact with the fort, was an entrenched camp, posted on a rocky eminence, that would have been far more eligible for the work itself, in which Hawkeye pointed out the presence of those auxiliary regiments that had so re-cently left the Hudson in their company.
-- They were fol-lowed at a little distance by the scout, with a view to profit early by their report, and to obtain some faint knowledge for himself of the more immediate localities.
-- Cora made no immediate answer, but turned her face toward the water, as if looking on the sheet of the Horican.
-- Montcalm fol-lowed him as far as the entrance of the marquee, renewing his invitations to the commandant of the fort to give him an immediate meeting in the open ground between the two armies.
-- It was, perhaps, owing to this circumstance, in addition to the necessity of keeping every hand employed at the paddles, that the Hurons had not immediate recourse to their firearms.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The immediate cause, however, of the prevalence of su-pernatural stories in these parts, was doubtless owing to the vicinity of Sleepy Hollow.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were five in the immediate neighbourhood, and the only thing was to go to all of them.
-- "There is no immediate danger," he said, in answer to our questioning.
-- He did not answer, but I went on ruthlessly:"Have you made any plans for the immediate future?"
-- But I think my arrival at Tahiti would have driven out of my head matters of much more immediate importance to me, and even after a week I found it not easy to order myself soberly.
-- He was a man to attract immediate sympathy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cold water produced an almost immediate effect.
-- They had no time, since they had to provide for the immediate wants of their existence, and though, profiting by acquired experience, they had nothing to invent, still they had everything to make; their iron and their steel were as yet only in the state of minerals, their earthenware in the state of clay, their linen and their clothes in the state of textile material.
-- Now fuel, wood or coal, was ready for immediate use, an oven must be built to use it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Discovering his mistake after a while, he appeared to grow rather sleepy and discontented, and had more than once suggested the propriety of an immediate departure, when the door opened, and the child herself appeared.
-- CHAPTER 8Business disposed of, Mr Swiveller was inwardly reminded of its being nigh dinner-time, and to the intent that his health might not be endangered by longer abstinence, dispatched a message to the nearest eating-house requiring an immediate supply of boiled beef and greens for two.
-- Finding that there was nobody in sight, he presently returned into the house with his legal friend, protesting (as the child heard from the staircase), that there was a league and plot against him; that he was in danger of being robbed and plundered by a band of conspirators who prowled about the house at all seasons; and that he would delay no longer but take immediate steps for disposing of the property and returning to his own peaceful roof.
-- There is exceedingly mild porter, sir, in the immediate vicinity, and the contingent advantages are extraordinary.'
-- Having given this pledge, which was rather a bold one, and not particularly easy of redemption, Kit lost no time in sallying forth, and taking measures for its immediate fulfilment.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing which, those women who were not her immediate neighbors went to their places.
-- His discontent, due to the pettiness and vanity of his immediate superiors, grew until an opportunity offered to enter the Senate.
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