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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Edward, who was immediately apprised of the fact, came up on the poop a few minutes after with his cousin, and asked John Mangles, the captain, what sort of an animal he thought it was.
-- My husband determined to lay the document before the Lords of the Admiralty, to induce them to send out a ship immediately in search of Captain Grant."
-- A telegram was dispatched to John Mangles the very same day, conveying Lord Glenarvan's orders to take the DUNCAN immediately to Glasgow, and to make preparations for a voyage to the Southern Seas, and possibly round the world, for Lady Helena was right in her opinion that the yacht might safely attempt the circumnavigation of the globe, if necessary.
-- Of course, his weight shut up the instrument immediately by pushing the different parts one into the other, and so suddenly, that he fell full length on deck, and lay sprawling at the foot of the mainmast.
-- The custom of the muleteers is to start immediately after breakfast, about eight o'clock, and not to stop till they camp for the night, about 4 P. M. Glenarvan fell in with the practice, and the first halt was just as they arrived at Arauco, situated at the very extremity of the bay.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, sir, it was immediately after that our own trouble came to us.
-- But now from somewhere among the broken ground immediately in front of us there came one last despairing yell, and then a dull, heavy thud.
-- 'Immediately after breakfast.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the prince immediately replaced his soft, round hat on the table.
-- he immediately added, with warmth.
-- The prince immediately followed the man out of the room.
-- Having arrived at Nastasia's house one day, with Epanchin, Totski immediately began to speak of the intolerable torment of his position.
-- He immediately added that such a suggestion from him would, of course, be absurd, unless accompanied by remarks of a more pointed nature.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First he put a waistband round him and then he gave him some well-cut thongs of ox-hide; the two men being now girt went into the middle of the ring, and immediately fell to; heavily indeed did they punish one an-other and lay about them with their brawny fists.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he half turned his head and immediately turned it away again.
-- Immediately after, the stranger's hat hopped off the bed-post, described a whirling flight in the air through the better part of a circle, and then dashed straight at Mrs. Hall's face.
-- Mr. Marvel by way of reply struggled to his feet, and was immediately rolled over again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I quickened my footsteps almost into a run, and immediately there was a stumble in my rear.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing a thing, she would immediately set to inquiring how she would look, properly related to it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mastro Antonio, very glad indeed, went immediately to his bench to get the piece of wood which had frightened him so much.
-- Fly immediately to him.
-- The Fairy, who was waiting at the door of the house, lifted the poor little Marionette in her arms, took him to a dainty room with mother-of-pearl walls, put him to bed, and sent immediately for the most famous doctors of the neighborhood to come to her.
-- On hearing these words, the good little woman immediately said: "If you help me to carry these jugs home, I'll give you a slice of bread."
-- The Dog immediately recognized Pinocchio's voice.
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