instantly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 立即， 即刻，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：
-- With an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the Tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out, and put on his hat.
-- But scorning rest, upon his reappearance, he instantly began again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out of sight, or perish.
-- If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did), on purpose, he would have made a feint of en-deavouring to seize you, which would have been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If any one of the three had had the hardihood to propose to another to walk on a little ahead into the mist and darkness, he would have put himself in a fair way of getting shot instantly as a highwayman.
-- 136 A tale of two cities'Touch that string, and he instantly changes for the worse.
-- Instantly Madame Defarge's knife was in her girdle; the drum was beating in the streets, as if it and a drummer had flown together by magic; and The Vengeance, uttering ter-rific shrieks, and flinging her arms about her head like all the forty Furies at once, was tearing from house to house, rousing the women.
-- With this uneasiness half stifled, and half reproaching him, he had been brought to the pointed comparison of himself with the brave old gentleman in whom duty was so strong; upon that comparison (injurious to himself) had instantly followed the sneers of Monseigneur, which had stung him bitterly, and those of Stryver, which above all were coarse and galling, for old reasons.
-- You must instantly be obedient, still, and quiet.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These shoes possess the property of instantly transporting him who has them on to the place or the period in which he most wishes to be; every wish, as regards time or place, or state of being, will be immediately fulfilled, and so at last man will be happy, here below.'
-- said he, involuntarily; and instantly through it slipped, easily and without pain, notwithstanding it was pretty large and thick.
-- The first heart through which he came, was that of a middle-aged lady, but he instantly fancied himself in the room of the 'Institution for the cure of the crooked and de-formed,' where casts of mis-shapen limbs are displayed in naked reality on the wall.
-- It was from you!What a tour that letter had made!I opened it instantly and read: I laughed and wept.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly flinging a fresh cloth over the round table under the bronze chandelier, though it already had a table cloth on it, he pushed up velvet chairs, and came to a standstill before Stepan Arkadyevitch with a napkin and a bill of fare in his hands, awaiting his commands.
-- Anna could think of nothing, but her heart responded instantly to each word, to each change of expression of her sister-in-law.
-- she glanced towards the sofa beside her, and he instantly sat down.
-- The snipe flying high above instantly folded its wings and fell into a thicket, bending down the delicate shoots.
-- Angry with himself for so base a feeling, Levin ran into the hall; as soon as he had seen his brother close, this feeling of selfish disappointment vanished instantly and was replaced by pity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Send a dispatch to London for a warrant of arrest to be dispatched instantly to Bombay, take passage on board the Mongolia, follow my rogue to India, and there, on English ground, arrest him politely, with my warrant in my hand, and my hand on his shoulder."
-- They were getting on rapidly, when suddenly a cry was heard in the interior of the temple, followed almost instantly by other cries replying from the outside.
-- Then a torch was brought, and the wood, heavily soaked with oil, instantly took fire.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't care whether he has all science at his fingertips, whether he can instantly diagnose with a considerable degree of accuracy the most obscure ailment, whether he has the surgical technique of a Mayo, a Crile, a Blake, an Ochsner, a Cushing.
-- Gottlieb was instantly grim.
-- Instantly the apparition was gone and Martin sat trembling, hands trembling on the little steering-wheel, foot trembling like St. Vitus's dance on the brake.
-- Instantly Martin and he were off on education, damning the universities for turning out graduates like sausages.
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