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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he imitated the prince's demeanour, and talked fast and brilliantly upon all subjects but the one on which their thoughts were engaged.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they had come inside the harbour they furled the sails and laid them in the ship's hold; they slackened the forestays, lowered the mast into its place, and rowed the ship to the place where they would have her lie; there they cast out their mooring-stones and made fast the hawsers.
-- I say further, and lay my saying to your heart if Minerva sees fit to vouchsafe me the glory of killing both, stay your horses here and make the reins fast to the rim of the chariot; then be sure you spring Ae-neas' horses and drive them from the Trojan to the Achaean ranks.
-- He donned his goodly armour overlaid with bronze, and hasted through the city as fast as his feet could take him.
-- She turned her steeds; the Hours presently unyoked them, made them fast to their ambrosial mangers, and leaned the chariot against the end wall of the courtyard.
-- They took their sweating steeds from under the yoke, and made them fast each by his own chariot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gibbons had heard nothing of the morning's occurrences, but the phenomenon was so striking and disturbing that his philosophical tranquillity vanished; he got up hastily, and hurried down the steepness of the hill towards the village, as fast as he could go.
-- He clambered out of the window, adjusted his costume hastily, and fled up the village as fast as his fat little legs would carry him.
-- He was a shortish little man, and he wore a high hat, and he was running so fast that his legs verily twinkled.
-- Down he went, and I crouched down behind the counter and began whipping off my clothes as fast as I could.
-- I walked fast to avoid being overtaken.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was too faint, what with my long fast and the sun beating down on my bare head, to offer any assistance.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I will go as fast as I can,' he said anxiously.
-- The other herd children, watching with the cattle half a mile away, hurried to the village as fast as their legs could carry them, crying that the buffaloes had gone mad and run away.
-- Buldeo hobbled away to the village as fast as he could, looking back over his shoulder in case Mowgli should change into something terrible.
-- A school of porpoises were ducking and tearing through the water, and little Kotick followed them as fast as he could.
-- The distance to the killing-grounds was only half a mile, but it took an hour to cover, because if the seals went too fast Kerick knew that they would get heated and then their fur would come off in patches when they were skinned.
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：
-- No longer dreaded by her enemies, her servants were fast losing the confidence of self-respect.
-- Here their progress was less interrupted; and the instant the guide perceived that the females could com-mand their steeds, he moved on, at a pace between a trot and a walk, and at a rate which kept the surefooted and pe-culiar animals they rode at a fast yet easy amble.
-- 'We are awake, Duncan,' said the soft, silvery tones of Alice within the building, 'and ready to travel very fast af-ter so refreshing a sleep; but you have watched through the tedious night in our behalf, after having endured so much fatigue the livelong day!'
-- The young man availed himself of this order to quit the apartment; and, as the day was fast coming to a close, he hastened without delay, to make the necessary arrange-ments.
-- On every side the captured were flying before their relentless persecutors, while the armed columns of the Christian king stood fast in an apathy which has never been explained, and which has left an immovable blot on the otherwise fair escutcheon of their leader.
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：
-- "You can bet your boots I'd have routed her out fast enough."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Let us follow it as fast as we can without stopping."
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