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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the manner of the speech, no less than the matter, was so fiery,that Miss Murdstone, without a word in answer, discreetly put herarm through her brother's, and walked haughtily out of thecottage; my aunt remaining in the window looking after them;prepared, I have no doubt, in case of the donkey's reappearance, tocarry her threat into instant execution.
-- If Traddles ever for an instant missed the tea-spoons that were still to be won, I have no doubt it was when hehanded the Beauty her tea.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was instant pleasure in the sight of them, and still greater pleasure was conveyed in sound for Mr. Weston immediately accosted her with, 'How d'ye do? how d'ye do? We have been sitting with your father glad to see him so well.
-- A letter arrived from Mr. Churchill to urge his nephew's instant return.
-- But she had an almost instant doubt of his caring for her as he had done, of his feeling the same tenderness in the same degree.
-- She went she had driven once unsuccessfully to the door, but had not been into the house since the morning after Box Hill, when poor Jane had been in such distress as had filled her with compassion, though all the worst of her sufferings had been unsuspected. The fear of being still unwelcome, determined her, though assured of their being at home, to wait in the passage, and send up her name. She heard Patty announcing it; but no such bustle succeeded as poor Miss Bates had before made so happily intelligible. No; she heard nothing but the instant reply of, 'Beg her to walk up;' and a moment afterwards she was met on the stairs by Jane herself, coming eagerly forward, as if no oth-er reception of her were felt sufficient. Emma had never seen her look so well, so lovely, so engaging.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lamb, revived by the warmth, began to bleat, and the sound entered Gabriel's ears and brain with an instant meaning, as expected sounds will.
-- "I am sorry," he said the instant after.
-- In an instant Bathsheba's face coloured with the angry crimson of a Danby sunset.
-- In an instant the atmosphere was transformed to Bathsheba's eyes.
-- At the same instant Boldwood sprang upon him, and held him by the neck.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have promised that someone should watch for him and give him instant notice if any new object should appear in sight.
-- 'Every minute,' continued M. Krempe with warmth, 'every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost.
-- I was unable to remain for a single instant in the same place; I jumped over the chairs, clapped my hands, and laughed aloud.
-- It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making 82 Frankensteinit appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.
-- My first thought was to discover what I knew of the murder-er, and cause instant pursuit to be made.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The kneeling figures, the soft glow of the lamp, the dim shadows where the negroes swayed, even thefamiliar objects that had been so hateful to her sight an hour ago, in an instant took on the color of her own emotions,and the room seemed once more a lovely place.
-- She loved Ashley and she knew she lovedhim and she had never cared so much as in that instant when she saw Charles disappearing around the curved graveledwalk.
-- It came off with difficulty and for a brief instant wasclutched tightly in the small palm.
-- For afleeting instant she saw Melanie's incredulous face, the look on the chaperons' faces, the petulant girls, the enthusiasticapproval of the soldiers.
-- Scarlett had a wild impulse to cry outquestions, but they died on her lips as Melanie took her hand and held it for an instant against her cheek.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Resenting this little success more than anything, Drummle, without any threat or warning, pulled his hands out of his pockets, dropped his round shoulders, swore, took up a large glass, and would have flung it at his adversary's head, but for our entertainer's dexterously seizing it at the instant when it was raised for that purpose.
-- Joe looked at me for a single instant with something faintly like reproach.
-- What was the nameless shadow which again in that one instant had passed?
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