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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each word spoken by Thalcave was instantly translated, so that the whole party seemed to hear him speak in their mother tongue.
-- Instantly there rose by the hundred roebucks and guanacos, like those that had swept over them that terrible night on the Cordilleras, but the timid creatures were so frightened that they were all out of gunshot in a twinkling.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly I felt a shock running through all my frame; nothing was to be seen, and nothing was to be heard; but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine.
-- "And now behold Jonah taken up as an anchor and dropped into the sea; when instantly an oily calmness floats out from the east, and the sea is still, as Jonah carries down the gale with him, leaving smooth water behind.
-- Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below, I instantly gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible; for my first vague disquietude touching the unknown captain, now in the seclusion of the sea, became almost a perturbation.
-- The masts reeled, and the sails fell altogether, while we who were below all sprang instantly upon the deck, concluding that we had struck upon some rock; instead of this we saw the monster sailing off with the utmost gravity and solemnity.
-- Instantly all was commotion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She soon returned, with the direction that the wounded person was to be carried, carefully, upstairs to Mr. Giles's room; and that Brittles was to saddle the pony and betake himself instantly to Chertsey: from which place, he was to despatch, with all speed, a constable and doctor.
-- Mrs. Bumble, whose patience brooked no delay, caught up a bowl of soap-suds, and motioning him towards the door, ordered him instantly to depart, on pain of receiving the contents upon his portly person.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, taking her hand, he would have given it to Mr. Darcy who, though ex-tremely surprised, was not unwilling to receive it, when she instantly drew back, and said with some discomposure to Sir William: 'Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing.
-- Mrs. Bennet and her daughters then departed, and Eliz-abeth returned instantly to Jane, leaving her own and her relations' behaviour to the remarks of the two ladies and Mr. Darcy; the latter of whom, however, could not be pre-vailed on to join in their censure of HER, in spite of all Miss Bingley's witticisms on FINE EYES.
-- But when the gentlemen entered, Jane was no longer the first object; Miss Bingley's eyes were instantly turned to-ward Darcy, and she had something to say to him before he had advanced many steps.
-- Elizabeth instantly read her feelings, and at that moment solicitude for Wickham, resentment against his enemies, and everything else, gave way before the hope of Jane's being in the fairest way for happiness.
-- Miss Lucas per-ceived him from an upper window as he walked towards the house, and instantly set out to meet him accidentally in the lane.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She gave her an answer which marked her contempt, and instantly left the room, resolving that, whatever might be the inconvenience or expense of so sudden a removal, her beloved Elinor should not be exposed another week to such insinuations.
-- She instantly wrote Sir John Middleton her acknowledgment of his kindness, and her acceptance of his proposal; and then hastened to shew both letters to her daughters, that she might be secure of their approbation before her answer were sent.
-- His manly beauty and more than common gracefulness were instantly the theme of general admiration, and the laugh which his gallantry raised against Marianne received particular spirit from his exterior attractions. Marianne herself had seen less of his person than the rest, for the confusion which crimsoned over her face, on his lifting her up, had robbed her of the power of regarding him after their entering the house.
-- This was all overheard by Miss Dashwood; and in the whole of the sentence, in his manner of pronouncing it, and in his addressing her sister by her Christian name alone, she instantly saw an intimacy so decided, a meaning so direct, as marked a perfect agreement between them.
-- Nay, more, I consider it as the only form of building in which happiness is attainable, and were I rich enough I would instantly pull Combe down, and build it up again in the exact plan of this cottage."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly the blood crept warmly over her body.
-- The first, silenced, instantly assumed a solemn face.
-- All the girls instantly left their stools and hurried away in an adjoining room, men passed through, coming from some department which opened on the right.
-- Instantly she drew herself into a more reserved position.
-- Instantly he pulled out his watch and looked.
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