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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She never hesitated for an instant as to the course she should adopt, but determined to go to Dumbartonshire immediately, to learn the best and worst.
-- The church steeple and the Chilian flag gleamed for an instant among the trees, and then the strait wound on between huge granitic masses which had an imposing effect.
-- The splendor of the spectacle increased every instant as night deepened, and the whole sky became lighted up with a dazzling reflection of the blazing crater, while the sun, gradually becoming shorn of his sunset glories, disappeared like a star lost in the distant darkness of the horizon.
-- He did not wait long, for a strange cry—a confused sound of barking and howling—broke over the Pampas, followed next instant by the report of the carbine, which made the uproar a hundred times worse.
-- The night was stormy, and the planks of the rancho cracked before the blast as if every instant they would give way.
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：
-- At the last instant came this terrible catastrophe.
-- In an instant Holmes had changed from the languid dreamer to the man of action.
-- An instant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction, and, following the direction of his eager eyes, I saw that a han-som cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was now proceeding slowly onward again.
-- At that instant I was aware of a bushy black beard and a pair of piercing eyes turned upon us through the side win-dow of the cab.
-- At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only I can stop a disastrous scandal.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just that instant when you place your head on the block and hear the iron grate over your head then that quarter of a second is the most awful of all.
-- 'It was just a minute before the execution,' began the prince, readily, carried away by the recollection and evi-dently forgetting everything else in a moment; 'just at the instant when he stepped off the ladder on to the scaffold.
-- If I lay there, I should certainly listen for that grating sound, and hear it, too!There would probably be but the tenth part of an instant left to hear it in, but one would certainly hear it.
-- This reasoning, however, seemed to end in a paradox, and lead to the further consideration: 'What matter though it be only disease, an abnormal tension of the brain, if when I recall and analyze the moment, it seems to have been one of harmony and beauty in the highest de-gree an instant of deepest sensation, overflowing with unbounded joy and rapture, ecstatic devotion, and com-pletest life?'
-- Prince S. has often spoken to me about you,' said Muishkin, and for an instant the two men looked intently into one another's eyes.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stand by you too to protect you, and I bid you be instant in fighting the Trojans; but either you are tired out, or you are afraid and out of heart, and in that case I say that you are no true son of Tydeus the son of Oeneus.'
-- At daybreak let Idaeus go to the ships, and tell Agamem-non and Menelaus sons of Atreus the saying of Alexandrus through whom this quarrel has come about; and let him also be instant with them that they now cease fighting till we burn our dead; hereafter we will fight anew, till heaven decide between us and give victory to one or to the other.'
-- Men-servants poured water over the hands of the guests, while pages filled the mixing-bowls with wine and water, and handed it round after giving every man his drink-of-fering; then, when they had made their offerings, and had drunk each as much as he was minded, the envoys set out from the tent of Agamemnon son of Atreus; and Nestor, looking first to one and then to another, but most especially at Ulysses, was instant with them that they should prevail with the noble son of Peleus.
-- At the same instant they all of them lashed their horses, struck them with the reins, and shouted at them with all their might.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The creature's face was turned for one brief instant out of the dimness of the stern towards this illumi-nation, and I saw that the eyes that glanced at me shone with a pale-green light.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The herd paused for an instant at the edge of the slope, but Akela gave tongue in the full hunting-yell, and they pitched over one after the other, just as steamers shoot rap-ids, the sand and stones spurting up round them.
-- Get round with your hind legs under you the instant you feel the rein on your neck.
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：
-- In an instant the whole camp was in motion; the meanest soldier arousing from his lair to witness the de-parture of his comrades, and to share in the excitement and incidents of the hour.
-- Here their progress was less interrupted; and the instant the guide perceived that the females could com-mand their steeds, he moved on, at a pace between a trot and a walk, and at a rate which kept the surefooted and pe-culiar animals they rode at a fast yet easy amble.
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