immediately是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 立即； 直接地，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 179 Morning dawned before I arrived at the village of Cham-ounix; I took no rest, but returned immediately to Geneva.
-- To England, therefore, I was bound, and it was under-stood that my union with Elizabeth should take place immediately on my return.
-- He had vowed *to 232 Frankensteinbe with me on my wedding-night*, yet he did not consider that threat as binding him to peace in the meantime, for as if to show me that he was not yet satiated with blood, he had murdered Clerval immediately after the enunciation of his threats.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett knew from experience that, if Mammy'scuriosity were not immediately satisfied, she would take up the matter with Ellen, and then Scarlett would be forced toreveal everything to her mother, or think up some plausible lie.
-- Uncle Henry liked Scarlett immediately because, he said, he could see that for all her silly affectations she had afew grains of sense.
-- She had immediately loathed nursing but she could not escape this duty because she was on both Mrs. Meade'sand Mrs. Merriwether's committees.
-- For a moment she suspected Pittypat but immediately abandoned that thought.
-- Even the fact that Ren脙漏 immediately asked for her hand did not improvematters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister, Mrs. Joe, throwing the door wide open, and finding an obstruction behind it, immediately divined the cause, and applied Tickler to its further investigation.
-- It was too much for Mrs. Joe, who immediately rose.
-- Biddy, who was the most obliging of girls, immediately said she would, and indeed began to carry out her promise within five minutes.
-- That fearful Impostor, Pumblechook, immediately nodded, and said, as he rubbed the arms of his chair, "It's more than that, Mum."
-- Further, that it is the desire of the present possessor of that property, that he be immediately removed from his present sphere of life and from this place, and be brought up as a gentleman,--in a word, as a young fellow of great expectations."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 90 Grimms' Fairy Tales Immediately the hair fell down and the king's son climbed up.
-- Then the king's son wished for one, and she immediately stood before him, and was more beautiful than any painter could have painted her.
-- 'When you are half-way over, throw it down, and out of the waters will immediately spring up a high nut-tree on which the griffin will be able to rest, otherwise he would not have the strength to bear you the whole way; if, therefore, thou dost forget to throw down the nut, he will let you both fall into the sea.'
-- When they were half-way across Lily let the nut fall into the water, and immediately a large nut-tree arose from the sea, whereon the griffin rested for a while, and then carried them safely home.
-- One of them said that he had found a stick, and that he had but to strike it against any door through which he wished to pass, and it immediately flew open.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their be-ing, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with convic-tion.
-- But the creatures ran off a second time, before I could seize them; whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent, and after it ceased I heard one of them cry aloud Tolgo phonac; when in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which, pricked me like so many needles; and besides, they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my body, (though I felt them not), and some on my face, which I immediately cov-ered with my left hand.
-- Soon after I 19heard a general shout, with frequent repetitions of the words Peplom selan; and I felt great numbers of people on my left side relaxing the cords to such a degree, that I was able to turn upon my right, and to ease myself with making water; which I very plentifully did, to the great astonish-ment of the people; who, conjecturing by my motion what I was going to do, immediately opened to the right and left on that side, to avoid the torrent, which fell with such noise and violence from me.
-- The poor man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much pain, espe-cially when they saw me take out my penknife: but I soon put them out of fear; for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the strings he was bound with, I set him gently on 28 Gulliver's Travelsthe ground, and away he ran.
-- I did so, and immediately all the troops gave a shout between terror and surprise; for the sun shone clear, and the reflection dazzled their eyes, as I waved the scimitar to and fro in my hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He inherited a fair fortune from his uncle, but owed it all before he came into it, and spent it twice over immediately afterwards.
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