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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You didn't take your wife p. 59for fast and for loose; but for better for worse.
-- When these attentions had recovered her (which they speedily did), he hustled her into a fast train without offering any other refreshment, and carried her back to Coketown more dead than alive.
-- I am pretty well known to be rather an uncommon man, I believe; and most people will understand fast enough that it must be a woman rather out of the common, also, who, in the long run, would come up to my mark.'
-- By this time a whole village was up: and windlasses, ropes, poles, candles, lanterns, all things necessary, were fast collecting and being brought into one place, to be carried to the Old Hell Shaft.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle has determined to fast and make me fast until he makes out this abominable inscription," I replied.
-- "Now," said my uncle, "let us breakfast, and break fast like people who have a long day's work before them."
-- My uncle lay fast asleep--or dead.
-- The wind had freshened up, and we were fast leaving the neighborhood of Henry's Island.
-- I hastened to put the light to the wick, which crackled and sparkled, hissing and spitting like a serpent; then, running as fast as I could, I returned to the shore.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And suddenly he held her fast against his breast again, with the old connecting passion.
-- He held her fast and she felt his urgency.
-- Connie was in bed, and fast asleep all this time.
-- He wanted her, to touch her, to hold her fast against him in one moment of completeness and sleep.
-- It made her want to cling fast to him, to hold him, for there was a warm, half-sleepy remoteness in his beauty that made her want to cry out and clutch him, to have him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maddening church bells of all degrees of dissonance, sharp and flat, cracked and clear, fast and slow, made the brick-and-mortar echoes hideous.
-- She expected to see Jeremiah fast asleep or in a fit, but he was calmly seated in a chair, awake, and in his usual health.
-- Pancks instantly made fast to him and hauled him out.
-- Maggy was snoring already, and Little Dorrit was soon fast asleep with her head resting on that sealed book of Fate, untroubled by its mysterious blank leaves.
-- Mr Pancks worked his way in, came alongside the desk, made himself fast by leaning his arms upon it, and started conversation with a puff and a snort.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Jo blushed till she couldn't blush any redder, and her heart began to beat uncomfortably fast as she thought what she had said.
-- 'Now then, we must walk her home as fast as we can.
-- My father, who taught me, is away, and I don't get on very fast alone, for I've no one to correct my pronunciation.'
-- Laurie spoke excitedly, and looked ready to carry his threat into execution on the slightest provocation, for he was growing up very fast and, in spite of his indolent ways, had a young man's hatred of subjection, a young man's rest-less longing to try the world for himself.
-- As she spoke, Jo bent over the leaves to hide the trem-bling of her lips, for lately she had felt that Margaret was fast getting to be a woman, and Laurie's secret made her dread the separation which must surely come some time and now seemed very near.
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