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：
-- The instant the father seconded this intimation by an ex-pressive gesture of the hand, Uncas threw himself on the ground, and approached the animal with wary movements.
-- Every effort to detect the point most regarded by the runner was completely frustrated by the tremulous glances of his organs, which seemed not to rest a single instant on any particular object, and which, at the same time, could be hardly said to move.
-- At the next instant the form of Chingachgook appeared from the bushes, looking like a specter in its paint, and glided across the path in swift pursuit.
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 was an instant of complete silence, but when Tough Bill threw himself on Strickland the lust of battle seized them all, and in a moment there was a confused scrimmage.
-- She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But after being suspended for an instant aloft, the balloon began to redescend, the gas escaping by the rent which it was impossible to repair.
-- As if it had been at that instant relieved of a new part of its weight, it mounted to a height of 1,500 feet, and here it met a current of wind, which instead of taking it directly to the coast, carried it in a nearly parallel direction.
-- Five days afterwards four of them were thrown on a desert coast, seven thousand miles from their country!But one of their number was missing, the man who was to be their guide, their leading spirit, the engineer, Captain Harding!The instant they had recovered their feet, they all hurried to the beach in the hopes of rendering him assistance.
-- He reflected an instant and replied, "Two cables lengths at the most."
-- An instant after he issued with a lighted fagot, which he threw into the darkness, whistling shrilly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same glance at the mirror conveyed to her the reflection of a horribly grotesque and distorted face with the tongue lolling out; and the next instant the dwarf, turning about with a perfectly bland and placid look, inquired in a tone of great affection.
-- 'Some people, Sir, would have sold or removed the goods oh dear, the very instant the law allowed 'em.
-- Perhaps his imperturbable character was never more strikingly developed, for he preserved his usual equable smile notwithstanding that his body was dangling in a most uncomfortable position, all loose and limp and shapeless, while his long peaked cap, unequally balanced against his exceedingly slight legs, threatened every instant to bring him toppling down.
-- If the master did chance to rouse himself and seem alive to what was going on, the noise subsided for a moment and no eyes met his but wore a studious and a deeply humble look; but the instant he relapsed again, it broke out afresh, and ten times louder than before.
-- The instant he appeared, she recognised him Who could have failed to recognise, in that instant, the ugly misshapen Quilp!
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence: I become absent-minded, as you say.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He spoke to him as before, over his shoulder and in the same tone of voice, rather high, so that all the room might hear, but perfectly calm and steady: "If you do not put that knife this instant in your pocket, I promise, upon my honour, you shall hang at the next assizes."
-- Then all of a sudden there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and other noises the chair and table went over in a lump, a clash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain, and the next instant I saw Black Dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing, both with drawn cutlasses, and the former streaming blood from the left shoulder.
-- At the same instant my mother, alarmed by the cries and fighting, came running downstairs to help me.
-- I could hear people tumbling up from the cabin and the forecastle, and slipping in an instant outside my barrel, I dived behind the fore-sail, made a double towards the stern, and came out upon the open deck in time to join Hunter and Dr. Livesey in the rush for the weather bow.
-- The report fell in at the same instant of time.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Not an instant to lose; lock in my trunk all travelling utensils, coats, shirts, and stockings without counting, as many as you can, and make haste."
-- In another instant our feet trod the bottom of the sea.
-- On 27th instant it sighted the Sandwich Islands, where Cook died, February 14, 1779.
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