instant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 立即的； 紧迫的； (食品) 速溶的n. 瞬间， 时刻，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：
-- The upper portion of the garment was contracted for an instant in its folds, as if the Spirit had inclined its head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the tall man suddenly got up from the ground, and came running at the carriage, Monsieur the Marquis clapped his hand for an instant on his sword-hilt.
-- He looked up, for an instant at a time, when he was requested to do so; but, no persuasion would extract a word from him.
-- Through the fire and through the smoke in the fire and in the smoke, for the sea cast him up against a cannon, and on the instant he became a cannonier Defarge of the wine-shop worked like a manful soldier, Two fierce hours.
-- When the foremost billows rolled past, bear-ing the prison officers with them, and threatening them all with instant death if any secret nook remained undisclosed, Defarge laid his strong hand on the breast of one of these men a man with a grey head, who had a lighted torch in his hand separated him from the rest, and got him be-tween himself and the wall.
-- The favour was too much to bear; in an instant the barrier of dust and chaff that had stood surprisingly long, went to the winds, and Saint Antoine had got him!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful.
-- A little man in spectacles, with a narrow forehead, tore himself from the discussion for an instant to greet Levin, and then went on talking without paying any further attention to him.
-- And in platonic love there can be no tragedy, because in that love all is clear and pure, because..." At that instant Levin recollected his own sins and the inner conflict he had lived through.
-- At that instant another lady came into the room, and Levin got up.
-- At the instant when she was just facing the stairs, he raised his eyes, caught sight of her, and into the expression of his face there passed a shade of embarrassment and dismay.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment Sir Francis and the guide seized Phileas Fogg, who, in an instant of mad generosity, was about to rush upon the pyre.
-- Fakirs and soldiers and priests, seized with instant terror, lay there, with their faces on the ground, not daring to lift their eyes and behold such a prodigy.
-- said Passepartout, who seemed for an instant perplexed.
-- Passepartout had for an instant feared that he was on the wrong boat; but, though he was really on the Carnatic, his master was not there.
-- One, with a fan and some bits of paper, performed the graceful trick of the butterflies and the flowers; another traced in the air, with the odorous smoke of his pipe, a series of blue words, which composed a compliment to the audience; while a third juggled with some lighted candles, which he extinguished successively as they passed his lips, and relit again without interrupting for an instant his juggling.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt an instant and complete comradeship with her, a relation free from the fencing and posing of his struggle with Madeline.
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：
-- At that instant two drunken men came out at the door, and abusing and supporting one another, they mounted the steps.
-- But at that instant some-one seized him from behind, and a police constable stood between them.
-- At that moment something seemed to sting Raskolnikov; in an instant a complete revulsion of feeling came over him.
-- At that instant his father, who had been running after him, snatched him up and car-ried him out of the crowd.
-- In spite of all his agonising inward struggle, he never for a single instant all that time could believe in the carry-ing out of his plans.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was only for a moment that I stopped him,for he cut me heavily an instant afterwards, and in the same instantI caught the hand with which he held me in my mouth, betweenmy teeth, and bit it through.
-- I could notrestrain my eye from resting for an instant on a red spot upon it;but it was not so red as I turned, when I met that sinisterexpression in his face.
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