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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Immediately behind him came a woman with weary countenance and disheveled gray hair, wearing a crown-laced jacket, and girdled with a blue-edged sash.
-- But the midwife was attending a sick woman in the village, infected Katiousha with puerperal fever, and the child, a boy, was taken to a foundling asylum where, she was told, he died immediately after his arrival there.
-- The old man immediately seated himself beside Maslova and began to jest.
-- Recognizing the handwriting and the stamp, Nekhludoff flushed and immediately felt an influx of that energy which he always experienced in the face of danger.
-- Immediately a door beyond the grating opened, and two gendarmes with unsheathed swords and caps on their heads, stepped into the court-room.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second.
-- I tried to brush it away with my hand, but in a moment it returned, and almost immediately came another by my ear.
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：
-- The King immediately fell flat on his back, and lay perfectly still: and Alice was a little alarmed at what she had done, and went round the room to see if she could find any water to throw over him.
-- Here he looked at Tweedledee, who immediately sat down on the ground, and tried to hide himself under the umbrella.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once I stepped out myself into the road, but he immediately called me back, and as I did not obey quick enough for his fancy, a most horrible change came over his tallowy face, and he ordered me in with an oath that made me jump.
-- And immediately I began to prefer the dangers that I knew to those I knew not.
-- I heard someone say; and then, immediately after, with a cry of surprise, "Silver himself!"
-- The explosion of disapproval, which nothing but Silver's black looks had restrained, broke out immediately the doctor had left the house.
-- It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Anderson went down immediately into the hold.
-- Fortunately this compartment did not hold the boilers, or the fires would have been immediately extinguished.
-- The forecastle gun was immediately loaded and slewed round.
-- Just then, by the waning light of the moon which was sinking down to the horizon, I saw a face which was not Conseil's and which I immediately recognised.
-- At the bottom of the ladder, a door opened, and shut after us immediately with a bang.
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：
-- "I won't go into the church," she said suddenly, with such final decision that Ursula immediately halted, turned round, and branched off up a small side path which led to the little private gate of the Grammar School, whose grounds adjoined those of the church.
-- Birkin immediately went to talk to the nearest man.
-- And then immediately the shadow came back, a sullen, eagle look was on her face, she glanced from under her brows like a sinister creature at bay, hating them all.
-- And immediately the queer, careless, terribly attractive smile came over his eyes and brows, though his mouth did not relax.
-- Immediately Gudrun saw the famous sociologist as a flat bottle, containing tabloids of compressed liberty.
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