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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he lingered to open the cover and take a momentary glance inside.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My change of manner surprised and pleased the mag-istrate; perhaps he thought that my former exclamation was a momentary return of delirium, and now he instantly resumed his former benevolence.
-- I hes-itated before I answered, when Frankenstein, who had at first been silent, and indeed appeared hardly to have force enough to attend, now roused himself; his eyes sparkled, and his cheeks flushed with momentary vigour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were waiting, I supposed, for Mr. Pocket to come out to us; at any rate we waited there, and so I had an opportunity of observing the remarkable family phenomenon that whenever any of the children strayed near Mrs. Pocket in their play, they always tripped themselves up and tumbled over her,--always very much to her momentary astonishment, and their own more enduring lamentation.
-- On meeting my eye, he said plainly, by a momentary and silent pause in that attitude, "Indeed?
-- repeated Biddy, striking in, with a momentary flush upon her face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought, 'But that is very strong,' as he followed the momentary upward glance of her eyes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It consists of a coil of copper wire, insulated by being covered with silk, surrounded by another coil of fine wire, also insulated, in which a momentary current is induced when a current is passed through the inner coil from a voltaic battery.
-- Perhaps the raft, checked by some projecting rock, opposed a momentary resistance to the eruptive mass.
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：
-- Sometimes he was handsome: sometimes as he looked sideways, down-wards, and the light fell on him, he had the silent, enduring beauty of a carved ivory Negro mask, with his rather full eyes, and the strong queerly-arched brows, the immobile, compressed mouth; that momentary but revealed immobil-ity, an immobility, a timelessness which the Buddha aims at, and which Negroes express sometimes without ever aim-ing at it; something old, old, and acquiescent in the race!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Signor Cavalletto took his cigarette from between his parted lips, and showed more momentary discomfiture than might have been expected.
-- It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.
-- There had been that momentary interruption of the talk about the stove, and that temporary inattention to and distraction from one another, which is usually inseparable in such a company from the arrival of a stranger.
-- Now, that momentary look had said, 'You, of all people!I would rather have seen any one on earth than you!'
-- It was but a momentary look, inasmuch as she checked it, and said in her soft little voice, 'Oh, Mr John!Is it you?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a momentary lull, broken by Hannah, who stalked in, laid two hot turnovers on the table, and stalked out again.
-- Ashamed of his momentary pique, Laurie squeezed the kind little hand, and said frankly, 'I'm the one to be forgiv-en.
-- caused a momentary flurry, which was hardly over when a flock of cousins arrived, and 'the party came in', as Beth used to say when a child.
-- But he did, and his own changed again from that momentary anxiety to its usual expression, as he said cordially... 'I fear I shall not make the time for that, but I wish the friend much success, and you all happiness.
-- Laurie dashed into a livelier strain, played stormily for several minutes, and would have got through bravely, if in a momentary lull Mrs. March's voice had not been heard call-ing, 'Jo, dear, come in.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment Derick was in the act of pitching his lamp-feeder at the advancing boats, and also his oil-can; perhaps with the double view of retarding his rivals' way, and at the same time economically accelerating his own by the momentary impetus of the backward toss.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Noah, with well-affected dismay: and in tones so loud and agitated, that they not only caught the ear of Mr. Bumble himself, who happened to be hard by, but alarmed him so much that he rushed into the yard without his cocked hat,--which is a very curious and remarkable circumstance: as showing that even a beadle, acted upon a sudden and powerful impulse, may be afflicted with a momentary visitation of loss of self-possession, and forgetfulness of personal dignity.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The steady countenance which Miss Lucas had com-manded in telling her story, gave way to a momentary confusion here on receiving so direct a reproach; though, as it was no more than she expected, she soon regained her composure, and calmly replied: 'Why should you be surprised, my dear Eliza?
-- Presuming however, that this studied avoid-ance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ven-tured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.
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