momentary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 瞬息间的， 片刻的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable wa-ter, wherein, as momentary lights glanced into it, I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged.
-- And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy-cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly pres-ence-nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last.
-- Something especially reckless in his de-meanour, not only gave him a disreputable look, but so diminished the strong resemblance he undoubtedly bore to the prisoner (which his momentary earnestness, when they were compared together, had strengthened), that many of the lookers-on, taking note of him now, said to one another they would hardly have thought the two were so alike.
-- As if all that had happened since the garret time were a momentary fancy, or a dream, Mr. Lorry saw him shrink into the exact figure that Defarge had had in keeping.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though she could not recall her own words or his, she realized instinctively that the momentary conversation had brought them fearfully closer; and she was panic-stricken and blissful at it.
-- He felt that the love that bound him to Anna was not a momentary impulse, which would pass, as worldly intrigues do pass, leaving no other traces in the life of either but pleasant or unpleasant memories.
-- He had quite forgotten the momentary unpleasant impression, and alone with her he felt, now that the thought of her approaching motherhood was never for a moment absent from his mind, a new and delicious bliss, quite pure from all alloy of sense, in the being near to the woman he loved.
-- "Can it have been only a momentary mood, and will it pass and leave no trace?"
-- And such a momentary impulse there is not, and there cannot be, in the case of the oppression of the Slavonic peoples."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly he heard a momentary sharp crack like the snapping of a splin-ter and all was still again.
-- cried Porfiry Petrovitch, recovering from his momentary stupefaction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Copperfield,' returned mymother, 'is dead, and if you dare to speak unkindly of him to me-'My poor dear mother, I suppose, had some momentary intention ofcommitting an assault and battery upon my aunt, who could easilyhave settled her with one hand, even if my mother had been in farbetter training for such an encounter than she was that evening.
-- 'My love,' said Mr. Micawber, much affected, 'you willforgive, and our old and tried friend Copperfield will, I am sure,forgive, the momentary laceration of a wounded spirit, madesensitive by a recent collision with the Minion of Powerin otherwords, with a ribald turncock attached to the waterworks- andwith pity, not condemn, its excesses.'
-- When I measured Dora's finger for a ring that was to be made offorget-menots, and when the jeweller, to whom I took the measure,found me out, and laughed over his order book, and charged meanything he liked for the pretty little toy, with its blue stones- soassociated in my remembrance with Dora's hand, that yesterday,when I saw such another, by chance on the finger of my owndaughter, there was a momentary stirring in my heart, like pain!
-- Oh!long, long afterwards, I saw that face rise upbefore me, with its momentary look, not wondering, not accusing,not regretting.
-- After a momentary struggle with myself, Iturned my eyes upon him, and said, 'You have heard my question.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the sight of Mr. Knightley among the most attentive, soon drew away half Emma's mind; and she fell into a train of thinking on the subject of Mrs. Weston's suspicions, to which the sweet sounds of the united voices gave only momentary interruptions.
-- The delightful assurance of her total indifference towards Frank Churchill, of her having a heart completely disengaged from him, had given birth to the hope, that, in time, he might gain her affection himself; but it had been no present hope he had only, in the momentary conquest of eagerness over judgment, aspired to be told that she did not forbid his attempt to attach her. The superior hopes which gradually opened were so much the more enchant-ing. The affection, which he had been asking to be allowed to create, if he could, was already his! Within half an hour, he had passed from a thoroughly distressed state of mind, to something so like perfect happiness, that it could bear no other name.
-- It was all read, however, steadily, at-tentively, and without the smallest remark; and, excepting one momentary glance at her, instantly withdrawn, in the fear of giving pain no remembrance of Box Hill seemed to exist.
-- Chapter XIXIf Emma had still, at intervals, an anxious feeling for Har-riet, a momentary doubt of its being possible for her to be really cured of her attachment to Mr. Knightley, and real-ly able to accept another man from unbiased inclination, it was not long that she had to suffer from the recurrence of any such uncertainty.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba's momentary impulse at hearing this was to ask why he thought that, till she remembered that, far from being a conceited assumption on Boldwood's part, it was but the natural conclusion of serious reflection based on deceptive premises of her own offering.
-- Boldwood aroused himself from the momentary mood of confidence into which he had drifted, and walked on again, resuming his usual reserve.
-- Of course, she sometimes thought of him in the light of an old lover, and had momentary imaginings of what life with him as a husband would have been like; also of life with Boldwood under the same conditions.
-- When the momentary surprise had passed, his expression changed to a silencing imperious gaze.
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