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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almost immediately came a turn in the ravine, and the in-distinct blue horizon.
-- I immediately turned the key in the outer one.
-- Immediately there was a crashing through the yellow canes, and a sound of voices from the dense green jungle that marked the morass through which I had run on the previous day.
-- Immediately after appeared a monster in head-long pursuit, blood-bedabbled, who was amongst us almost before he could stop his career.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stimulated by apprehension, he left the scout, who immediately en-tered into a loud conversation with the stranger that had so unceremoniously enlisted himself in the party of travelers that morning.
-- The rocky island and the two caverns are known to every traveler, since the former sustains the pier of a bridge, which is now thrown across the river, immediately above the fall.
-- 'With joyful pleasure do I consent', said David, adjusting his iron-rimmed spectacles, and producing his beloved lit-tle volume, which he immediately tendered to Alice.
-- The sisters followed him into the outer cave, where David was beginning, by his sighs, to give symptoms of returning consciousness, and then commending the wounded man to their attention, he immediately prepared to leave them.
-- He turned and beheld the speaker, whose color had changed to a deadly paleness, and whose lips quivered, gazing after him, with an expression of interest which immediately recalled him to her side.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This story was immediately matched by a thrice mar-vellous adventure of Brom Bones, who made light of the Galloping Hessian as an arrant jockey.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dirk was going home to dinner, and I proposed to find a doctor and bring him to see Strickland; but when we got down into the street, fresh after the stuffy attic, the Dutchman begged me to go immediately to his studio.
-- His spectacles had tumbled off in the struggle, and he could not immediately see them.
-- Stroeve knew from the enquiries made by the police that Strickland had walked out of the house immediately after dinner, and the fact that Blanche had washed up the things as usual gave him a little thrill of horror.
-- It would seem that my visit to this remote island should immediately revive my interest in Strickland, but the work I was engaged in occupied my attention to the exclusion of something that was irrelevant, and it was not till I had been there some days that I even remembered his connection with it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A heavy bag immediately plunged into the sea.
-- Then immediately a loud voice shouted, "Land!land!"
-- However, one of the castaways, following the impulse of his heart, immediately threw himself into the current, without consulting his companions, without saying a single word.
-- "Let us get a supply," replied Herbert, who immediately set to work.
-- Pencroft immediately began to prepare the dinner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She busied herself immediately in preparing supper, and while she was thus engaged I remarked that the old man took an opportunity of observing me more closely than he had done yet.
-- To relate how it was a long time before his modesty could be so far prevailed upon as it admit of his sitting down in the parlour, in the presence of an unknown gentleman how, when he did set down, he tucked up his sleeves and squared his elbows and put his face close to the copy-book and squinted horribly at the lines how, from the very first moment of having the pen in his hand, he began to wallow in blots, and to daub himself with ink up to the very roots of his hair how, if he did by accident form a letter properly, he immediately smeared it out again with his arm in his preparations to make another how, at every fresh mistake, there was a fresh burst of merriment from the child and louder and not less hearty laugh from poor Kit himself and how there was all the way through, notwithstanding, a gentle wish on her part to teach, and an anxious desire on his to learn to relate all these particulars would no doubt occupy more space and time than they deserve.
-- In this light it was clearly understood by the other party, who immediately replied with great approbation, 'You quite enter into my feelings, ma'am, and it's jist what I'd do myself.'
-- Kit immediately glided away, and Nell, closing the window softly, drew back into the room.
-- So saying, Mr Codlin disappeared from the scene and immediately presented himself outside the theatre, took it on his shoulders at a jerk, and made off with most remarkable agility.
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