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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It flared up, and instantly the huge and gloomy Tabernacle was hysterical with flames.
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：
-- The shy, un-known youth found himself instantly something of a celebrity.
-- He turned homewards, but reaching Petrovsky Ostrov he stopped completely exhausted, turned off the road into the bushes, sank down upon the grass and instantly fell asleep.
-- He sat down on the sofa and instantly recollected everything!All at once, in one flash, he recollected every-thing.
-- Instantly he rushed to take them out and fling them on the table.
-- Instantly he thrust them all under his great coat and fixed his eyes intently upon her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ham Peggotty, who went to the national school, and was a verydragon at his catechism, and who may therefore be regarded as acredible witness, reported next day, that happening to peep in atthe parlour-door an hour after this, he was instantly descried byMiss Betsey, then walking to and fro in a state of agitation, andpounced upon before he could make his escape.
-- It wasTraddles; whom Mr. Mell instantly discomfited by bidding himhold his tongue.
-- I instantly proposed his health.
-- Also of thinking that Jip once barked in thedistance, and was instantly choked by somebody.
-- Mr. Dick, disturbed by these formidableappearances, but feeling it necessary to imitate them, pulled hishat, with both hands, as firmly over his ears as he possibly could;and instantly took it off again, to welcome Mr. Micawber.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bustle and joy of such an arrival, the many to be talked to, welcomed, encouraged, and variously dispersed and disposed of, produced a noise and confusion which his nerves could not have borne un-der any other cause, nor have endured much longer even for this; but the ways of Hartfield and the feelings of her fa-ther were so respected by Mrs. John Knightley, that in spite of maternal solicitude for the immediate enjoyment of her little ones, and for their having instantly all the liberty and attendance, all the eating and drinking, and sleeping and playing, which they could possibly wish for, without the smallest delay, the children were never allowed to be long a disturbance to him, either in themselves or in any restless attendance on them.
-- The horror of being blocked up at Randalls, while her children were at Hartfield, was full in her imagination; and fancying the road to be now just passable for adventurous people, but in a state that admitted no delay, she was eager to have it set-tled, that her father and Emma should remain at Randalls, while she and her husband set forward instantly through all the possible accumulations of drifted snow that might impede them.
-- which instantly burst forth, had all the evidence of corresponding perturbation.
-- A man who had been in motion since eight o'clock in the morning, and might now have been still, who had been long talking, and might have been silent, who had been in more than one crowd, and might have been alone! Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world! Could he by a touch of his finger have instantly taken back his wife, there would have been a motive; but his coming would probably prolong rather than break up the party.
-- She was stopped by a slight fit of coughing, and Mr. Weston instantly seized the opportunity of going on.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak knew her instantly as the heroine of the yellow waggon, myrtles, and looking-glass: prosily, as the woman who owed him twopence.
-- Gabriel instantly thought of the hat she had mentioned as having lost in the wind; possibly she had come to look for it.
-- Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season, yet putting it down instantly to their great fondness for ivy in winter-time, of which a great deal grew in the plantation, he followed through the hedge.
-- Gabriel, to whom her face was as the uncertain glory of an April day, was ever regardful of its faintest changes, and instantly discerned thereon the mark of some influence from without, in the form of a keenly self-conscious reddening.
-- She instantly replied sarcastically "On the contrary, my opinion of you is so low, that I see in your abuse the praise of discerning people!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My gener-ous friend reassured the suppliant, and on being informed of the name of her lover, instantly abandoned his pursuit.
-- His countenance instantly assumed an aspect of the deepest gloom, and he replied, 'To seek one who fled from me.'
-- As it drew nearer I ob-served that it was the Swiss diligence; it stopped just where I was standing, and on the door being opened, I perceived Henry Clerval, who, on seeing me, instantly sprung out.
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