fast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 快的， 迅速的； 坚固的ad. 紧紧地； 迅速地，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery's every refuge, where vain man in his little brief authority had not made fast the door and barred the Spirit out, he left his blessing, and taught Scrooge his precepts.
-- At last she said, and in a steady, cheerful voice, that only faltered once: 'I have known him walk with I have known him walk with Tiny Tim upon his shoulder, very fast indeed.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sound of a horse at a gallop came fast and furiously up the hill.
-- To exclude the cold, one half of this door was fast closed, and the other was opened but a very lit-tle way.
-- Your bank-notes had a musty odour, as if they were fast decomposing into rags again.
-- The learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities; neither was Mr. Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compeers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race.
-- Avoiding the larger rooms, which were dark and made fast for the night, Monsieur the Marquis, with his flam-beau-bearer going on before, went up the staircase to a door in a corridor.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are a very free and happy being; we others are chained by the leg and held fast to our desk.'
-- The robber maiden lifted up little Gerda, and took the precaution to bind her fast on the Reindeer's back; she even gave her a small cush-ion to sit on.
-- and the Reindeer flew on over bush and bramble through the great wood, over moor and heath, as fast as he could go.
-- Set her down by the large bush with red berries, standing in the snow; don't stay talking, but hasten back as fast as possible.'
-- She remarked she was without them from the cutting frost; but the Reindeer dared not stand still; on he ran till he came to the great bush with the red berries, and there he set Gerda down, kissed her mouth, while large bright tears flowed from the animal's eyes, and then back he went as fast as possible.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But however fast they worked, they did not spoil the grass, and the rows were laid just as neatly and exactly.
-- O Lord, our God, who hast poured down the blessings of Thy Truth according to Thy Holy Covenant upon Thy chosen servants, our fathers, from generation to generation, bless Thy servants Konstantin and Ekaterina, and make their troth fast in faith, and union of hearts, and truth, and love...." Levin felt more and more that all his ideas of marriage, all his dreams of how he would order his life, were mere childishness, and that it was something he had not understood hitherto, and now understood less than ever, though it was being performed upon him.
-- "Well, if that's what he wishes, I'll do it, but I can't answer for myself now," she thought, and darted forward as fast as her legs would carry her between the thick bushes.
-- As time went on, and he saw himself more and more often held fast in these snares, he had an ever growing desire, not so much to escape from them, as to try whether they hindered his freedom.
-- Mitya was unharmed, dry, and still fast asleep.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes; but we travel so fast that I seem to be journeying in a dream.
-- Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.
-- The agile Frenchman was soon upon his feet again, and lost no time in knocking down two of his long-gowned adversaries with his fists and a vigorous application of his toes; then, rushing out of the pagoda as fast as his legs could carry him, he soon escaped the third priest by mingling with the crowd in the streets.
-- A locomotive, running on the rails laid down the evening before, brought the rails to be laid on the morrow, and advanced upon them as fast as they were put in position.
-- The one hundred and twenty miles between these cities were accomplished in six hours, and towards midnight, while fast asleep, the travellers passed through Sacramento; so that they saw nothing of that important place, the seat of the State government, with its fine quays, its broad streets, its noble hotels, squares, and churches.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IV There was for Martin in these days a quality of satisfying delight; the zest of a fast hockey game, the serenity of the prairie, the bewilderment of great music, and a feeling of creation.
-- "Let's edge in and find out," said Clif, and they clung to the fast increasing knot about Dean Silva and the mystery, who was introduced as Dr. Benoni Carr, the pharmacologist.
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