headlong是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. &ad. 头向前的(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：
-- Not knowing that it was a fit, and seeing his victim disappear head foremost into the darkness, hearing his head strike the stone steps below with a crash, Rogojin rushed downstairs, skirting the body, and flung himself headlong out of the hotel, like a raving madman.
-- 'It is as clear as possible, and most comprehensible, that you, in your enthusiasm, should plunge headlong into the first chance that came of publicly airing your great idea that you, a prince, and a pure-living man, did not consider a woman disgraced if the sin were not her own, but that of a disgusting social libertine!Oh, heavens!it's comprehensible enough, my dear prince, but that is not the question, unfortunately!The question is, was there any reality and truth in your feelings?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He struck at the projecting part of his helmet and drove the spear into his brow; the point of bronze pierced the bone, and darkness veiled his eyes; headlong as a tower he fell amid the press of the fight, and as he dropped King Elephe-nor, son of Chalcodon and captain of the proud Abantes began dragging him out of reach of the darts that were fall-ing around him, in haste to strip him of his armour.
-- Diana herself had taught him how to kill every kind of wild creature that is bred in mountain forests, but nei-ther she nor his famed skill in archery could now save him, for the spear of Menelaus struck him in the back as he was flying; it struck him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, so that he fell headlong and his armour rang rattling round him.
-- He missed him, but struck his charioteer and squire Eniopeus son of noble Thebaeus in the breast by the nipple while the reins were in his hands, so that he died there and then, and the horses swerved as he fell headlong from the chariot.
-- The horses swerved aside as he fell headlong from the chariot, and there was no life left in him.
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：
-- And you don't suppose that I went into it headlong like a fool?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It wasright that I should pay the forfeit of my headlong passion.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Instead of taking a leap heroically from the window, she is falling headlong down the staircase," said her most intimate friend, the Duchesse de Langeais.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And girlswho knew very well that a lady always refused a gentleman the first three times he proposed rushed headlong to acceptthe first time.
-- Quiet, drowsy afternoon siestas had ceased to be, for though the clamor of battle might lull from time to time,Peachtree Street was alive, and noisy at all hours, cannon and ambulances rumbling by, wounded stumbling in fromthe rifle pits, regiments hurrying past at double-quick, ordered from the ditches on one side of town to the defense ofsome hard-pressed earthworks on the other, and couriers dashing headlong down the street toward headquarters asthough the fate of the Confederacy hung on them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first I imagined he had lost his footing, and was falling headlong into one of the yawning gulfs.
-- I was about to fall headlong into the gaping well, when I was drawn back by a firm and powerful hand.
-- Riding as it were on this terrible chariot, I was cast headlong into my uncle's arms.
-- Twenty times we seemed on the point of being upset and hurled headlong into the waves.
-- My uncle was cast headlong upon the deck.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All of which Flora said with so much headlong vehemence as if she really believed it.
-- cried Affery, driven into a frantic dance by these accumulated considerations, 'if I ain't a-going headlong out of my mind!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the whale rushed round in a sudden maelstrom; seized the swimmer between his jaws; and rearing high up with him, plunged headlong again, and went down.
-- For the strain constantly kept up by the windlass continually keeps the whale rolling over and over in the water, and as the blubber in one strip uniformly peels off along the line called the "scarf," simultaneously cut by the spades of Starbuck and Stubb, the mates; and just as fast as it is thus peeled off, and indeed by that very act itself, it is all the time being hoisted higher and higher aloft till its upper end grazes the main-top; the men at the windlass then cease heaving, and for a moment or two the prodigious blood-dripping mass sways to and fro as if let down from the sky, and every one present must take good heed to dodge it when it swings, else it may box his ears and pitch him headlong overboard.
-- cried Captain Mayhew; "thou must either " But that instant a headlong wave shot the boat far ahead, and its seethings drowned all speech.
-- Blinding vapors of foam and white-fire!The three boats, in the first fury of the whale's headlong rush, bumped the German's aside with such force, that both Derick and his baffled harpooneer were spilled out, and sailed over by the three flying keels.
-- As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside!here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Water-bearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and to wind up with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as he heard his Father's voice, he jumped up from his seat to open the door, but, as he did so, he staggered and fell headlong to the floor.
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