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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly cries and exclamations of excitement burst from the crowd at the gate.
-- There was a delicacy, almost a beauty in all her form, and at the same time a certain attractive grossness of spirit, that made a little spark leap instantly alight in Gerald's eyes.
-- And instantly she perished in the keen frisson of anticipation, an electric vibration in her veins, intense, much more intense than that which was always humming low in the atmosphere of Beldover.
-- He instantly guessed why.
-- "I won't aid abet them in it," he said petulantly, instantly sympathising with the aloof, furtive youth, against the active, procreant female.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seized a tureen of hot apple sauce (the first thing that came under his gripe) and dashed it full against the speaker's face and neck; who instantly commenced a lament that brought Isabella and Catherine hurrying to the place.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But after a second application to the knocker, no louder than the first, the door was softly opened by the boy from the wharf, whom Quilp instantly gagged with one hand, and dragged into the street with the other.
-- But, just as he was contemplating her, and chuckling excessively, he happened to observe that Tom Scott was delighted too; wherefore, that he might have no presumptuous partner in his glee, the dwarf instantly collared him, dragged him to the door, and after a short scuffle, kicked him into the yard.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He raised his hands in some excitement as he said this, and instantly rolled out of the saddle, and fell headlong into a deep ditch.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not tell, of course, the meaning of the signal, but it instantly awoke my fears.
-- Instantly I began to extricate myself and crawl back again, with what speed and silence I could manage, to the more open portion of the wood.
-- Instantly the figure reappeared, and making a wide circuit, began to head me off.
-- But of these, one was evidently more frightened than hurt, for he was on his feet again in a crack and instantly disappeared among the trees.
-- The breeze had but little action on the coracle, and I was almost instantly swept against the bows of the Hispaniola.
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