imminent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 迫近的, 紧迫的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps the danger seemed less imminent to his imagination.
-- At others, she would keep pace with them, and make such enormous leaps that there was imminent danger of her being pitched over on her side, and then again, every now and then the storm-driven sea would out-distance the yacht, and the angry billows would sweep over the deck from stem to stern with tremendous violence.
-- Glenarvan rejoined his companions, who felt they were in imminent danger, though no word was spoken on the subject.
-- He went on and on, gesticulating furiously, and brandishing his fork to the imminent danger of his neighbors.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear Lebedeff, I ' 'Oh, nothing more, nothing more!I was saying to myself but now... 'I am quite unworthy of friendly relations with him,' say I; 'but perhaps as landlord of this house I may, at some future date, in his good time, receive information as to certain imminent and much to be desired changes '' So saying Lebedeff fixed the prince with his sharp little eyes, still in hope that he would get his curiosity satisfied.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next morning, the old man was in a raging fever accompanied with delirium; and sinking under the influence of this disorder he lay for many weeks in imminent peril of his life.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Something big came into her throat and an uprising to her eyes and she thought that she would allow the imminent tears to flow if they wished.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback of a helpless headlong motion!I felt the same horrible anticipation, too, of an imminent smash.
-- And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.
-- Now, where are these imminent dangers?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were in the most imminent peril, but as we could only remain passive, my chief atten-tion was occupied by my unfortunate guest whose illness increased in such a degree that he was entirely confined to his bed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ned Land had not wished to leave his provisions; and, in spite of his imminent danger, his pig on one side and kangaroos on the other, he went tolerably fast.
-- In presence of this new and imminent danger, what would become of our chances of safety, and how hinder the solidification of this liquid medium, that would burst the partitions of the Nautilus like glass?
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：
-- "It does while it hangs imminent and doesn't fall.
-- Thousands of years ago, that which was imminent in himself must have taken place in these Africans: the goodness, the holiness, the desire for creation and productive happiness must have lapsed, leaving the single impulse for knowledge in one sort, mindless progressive knowledge through the senses, knowledge arrested and ending in the senses, mystic knowledge in disintegration and dissolution, knowledge such as the beetles have, which live purely within the world of corruption and cold dissolution.
-- The gleaming blondness of his strange, imminent being put the father into a fever of fretful irritation.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His greatest admirer could not have cordially justified his bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him, and using it there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it, to the imminent jeopardy of many heads, and grappling the beefsteaks towards him.
-- A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.
-- We were thus placed in the most imminent danger, as this gigantic creature, setting up its back, raised the ship three feet at least out of the water.
-- Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life and death peril so close to them ahead, yet with their eyes on the intense countenance of the mate in the stern of the boat, they knew that the imminent instant had come; they heard, too, an enormous wallowing sound as of fifty elephants stirring in their litter.
-- Again, if the dart be successful, then at the second critical instant, that is, when the whale starts to run, the boatheader and harpooneer likewise start to running fore and aft, to the imminent jeopardy of themselves and every one else.
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