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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew Ursula as an immediate rival, and the knowledge strangely exhilarated her.
-- And the immediate bond is between man and woman."
-- She wants petty, immediate power, she wants the illusion that she is a great woman, that is all.
-- It was a perfect passing away for both of them, and at the same time the most intolerable accession into being, the marvellous fullness of immediate gratification, overwhelming, out-flooding from the source of the deepest life-force, the darkest, deepest, strangest life-source of the human body, at the back and base of the loins.
-- It is better than anything ever would be this good immediate darkness."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An immediate interest kindled within me for the unknown Catherine, and I began forthwith to decipher her faded hieroglyphics.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sense of the immediate presence of the Morlocks revived at that.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten: his promise and the doctor's warning were both things of the past, and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the Hispaniola under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail away as he had at first intended, laden with crimes and riches.
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