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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.
-- 'You will repay me entirely if you do not discompose yourself, but get well as fast as you can; and since you ap-pear in such good spirits, I may speak to you on one subject, may I not?'
-- Observe how fast we move along and how the clouds, which sometimes obscure and some-times rise above the dome of Mont Blanc, render this scene of beauty still more interesting.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll bet their horses aren't as fast or their girls as pretty, and I know damn wellthey haven't got any rye whisky that can touch Father's."
-- Seeing no broad black face, turbaned in snowywhite, peering disapprovingly from between fluttering curtains, she boldly snatched up her green flowered skirts andsped down the path toward the driveway as fast as her small ribbon-laced slippers would carry her.
-- In summers, the County averaged a barbecue and ball nearly every week, but to the red-haired Tarletons with theirenormous capacity for enjoying themselves, each barbecue and each ball was as exciting as if it were the fast they hadever attended.
-- They'll do fine on a dry track, a fast track, but mark my words, I don't believe the Wilkes can run on a mudtrack.
-- She had attracted other beaux by the dozens, but not Ashley, and all the fears of yesterdayafternoon were sweeping back upon her, making her heart beat fast and then slow, and color flame and whiten in hercheeks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First, with her left hand she jammed the loaf hard and fast against her bib,--where it sometimes got a pin into it, and sometimes a needle, which we afterwards got into our mouths.
-- To-night, Joe several times invited me, by the display of his fast diminishing slice, to enter upon our usual friendly competition; but he found me, each time, with my yellow mug of tea on one knee, and my untouched bread and butter on the other.
-- All this time, I was getting on towards the river; but however fast I went, I couldn't warm my feet, to which the damp cold seemed riveted, as the iron was riveted to the leg of the man I was running to meet.
-- By that time, I was staggering on the kitchen floor like a little drunkard, through having been newly set upon my feet, and through having been fast asleep, and through waking in the heat and lights and noise of tongues.
-- Still, we went at an impatient fitful speed, and as we went, she twitched the hand upon my shoulder, and worked her mouth, and led me to believe that we were going fast because her thoughts went fast.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
-- You must go straight on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring: take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old leathern saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.'
-- Then lift her quickly on to the horse behind you; clap your spurs to his side, and gallop away as fast as you can.'
-- The ass brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cock screamed; and then they all broke through the window at once, and came tumbling into the room, amongst the broken glass, with a most hideous clatter!The robbers, who had been not a little 25frightened by the opening concert, had now no doubt that some frightful hobgoblin had broken in upon them, and scampered away as fast as they could.
-- At this the robber ran back as fast as 26 Grimms' Fairy Taleshe could to his comrades, and told the captain how a hor-rid witch had got into the house, and had spat at him and scratched his face with her long bony fingers; how a man with a knife in his hand had hidden himself behind the door, and stabbed him in the leg; how a black monster stood in the yard and struck him with a club, and how the devil had sat upon the top of the house and cried out, 'Throw the ras-cal up here!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They supplied me as fast as they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite.
-- I had now fas-tened all the hooks, and, taking the knot in my hand, began to pull; but not a ship would stir, for they were all too fast held by their anchors, so that the boldest part of my enter-prise remained.
-- These buckets were about the size of large thim-bles, and the poor people supplied me with them as fast as they could: but the flame was so violent that they did little good.
-- These false infor-mations, which I afterwards came to the knowledge of by an accident not proper to mention, made the treasurer show his lady for some time an ill countenance, and me a worse; and although he was at last undeceived and reconciled to her, yet I lost all credit with him, and found my interest de-cline very fast with the emperor himself, who was, indeed, too much governed by that favourite.
-- I was going to holla after them, although it had been to little pur-pose, when I observed a huge creature walking after them in the sea, as fast as he could: he waded not much deeper than his knees, and took prodigious strides: but our men had the start of him half a league, and, the sea thereabouts being full of sharp-pointed rocks, the monster was not able to overtake the boat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she was lost to his view, he pursued his homeward way, glancing up sometimes at the sky, where the clouds were sailing fast and wildly.
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