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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The silence seemed deeper in these momentary lulls, and the Major and John Mangles listened attentively.
-- During his momentary absence they gazed at each other in silence, all but the Major, who crossed his arms and said:"Well, now, Paganel, you must own this would be going a little too far."
-- Then he added with vehemence, as if reproaching himself for a momentary weakness:"No, I will not speak.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes,' said the prince, emerging from a momentary reverie.
-- 'Why, I'm yours again now, heart and hand, your slave; there was but a momentary pause in the flow of my love and esteem for you.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, recovering from the momentary shock.
-- But the smaller boy was sharp-eyed enough to follow the movement, and before I was well down the steps and upon the pavement, he had recovered from his momentary astonishment and was shouting out that the feet had gone over the wall.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But,' said he with a momentary hesitation, 'you know I'm dying to hear of how you came to be alone in that boat.
-- And the dwindling shreds of the humanity still startled me ev-ery now and then, a momentary recrudescence of speech perhaps, an unexpected dexterity of the fore-feet, a pitiful attempt to walk erect.
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：
-- She smiled, as if in pity at her own momentary forgetfulness, discovering by the act a row of teeth that would have shamed the purest ivory; when, replacing the veil, she bowed her face, and rode in silence, like one whose thoughts were abstracted from the scene around her.
-- As these frequent pauses were never followed by any remark, the momentary uneasiness they created quick-ly passed away, and for a time was forgotten.
-- It was evident that his momentary weakness had vanished with the explanation of a mystery which his own experience had not served to fathom; and though he now felt all the realities of their actual condition, that he was prepared to meet them with the energy of his hardy nature.
-- Hawkeye, who alone appeared to reason on the occasion, shook his head at his own momentary weakness, even uttering his self-disapprobation aloud.
-- David smiled sadly, though not without a momentary gleam of pleasure, at this allusion to his beloved vocation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes one would look up to smile to another, or to snuff the feeble candle, or to glance at the lightning as it shot through the open window and fluttering curtain, or to listen to some louder peal of thunder than the rest, with a kind of momentary impatience, as if it put him out; but there they sat, with a calm indifference to everything but their cards, perfect philosophers in appearance, and with no greater show of passion or excitement than if they had been made of stone.
-- 'It was a momentary impulse, indeed.'
-- Kit did suffer one twinge, one momentary pang, in keeping the resolution he had already formed, when this last argument passed swiftly into his thoughts, and conjured up the realization of all his hopes and fancies.
-- CHAPTER 43Her momentary weakness past, the child again summoned the resolution which had until now sustained her, and, endeavouring to keep steadily in her view the one idea that they were flying from disgrace and crime, and that her grandfather's preservation must depend solely on her firmness, unaided by one word of advice or any helping hand, urged him onward and looked back no more.
-- 'Because I must have that dream I told you of, no more,' said the child, with a momentary firmness that lost itself in tears; 'and we must live among poor people, or it will come again.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gen-tlemen arrived early; and, before Mrs. Bennet had time to tell him of their having seen his aunt, of which her daughter sat in momentary dread, Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane, proposed their all walking out.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He coloured very deeply, and giving a momentary glance at Elinor, replied, "Yes; it is my sister's hair.
-- But this, from the momentary perverseness of impatient suffering, she at first refused to do.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From pottering around among the drawers, in momentary expectation of her arrival he changed to looking out of the window, and from that to resting himself in the rocking-chair.
-- Success had given her the momentary feeling that she was now blessed with much of which he would approve.
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