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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many a man was flung headlong from his chariot by the hand of the son of Atreus, for he wielded his spear with fury.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They heard him go headlong across the passage and up the uncarpeted stairs to his bedroom.
-- The frantic gesticulations they surprised now and then, the headlong pace after nightfall that swept him upon them round quiet corners, the inhuman bludgeoning of all tentative advances of curiosity, the taste for twilight that led to the closing of doors, the pulling down of blinds, the extinction of candles and lamps who could agree with such goings on?
-- The bed-clothes gathered themselves together, leapt up suddenly into a sort of peak, and then jumped headlong over the bottom rail.
-- But Hall had hardly run a dozen yards before he gave a loud shout of astonishment and went flying headlong sideways, clutching one of the labourers and bringing him to the ground.
-- And then something happened to his rear-most foot, and he went headlong and rolled sideways just in time to graze the feet of his brother and partner, following headlong.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So nervous was I that I controlled an impulse to headlong flight with the utmost difficulty.
-- The skull rang loud, and the animal-man blundered into me, thrust me back with its hands, and went staggering past me to fall headlong upon the sand with its face in the water; and there it lay still.
-- In a moment he had gripped me by the shoulder with a hand that was smeared red, had twisted me off my feet, and flung me headlong back into my own room.
-- Once, as I went running headlong up the beach, I glanced over my shoulder and saw his attendant with him.
-- I took little time to think, or they would have caught me then, but snatching up my nailed stick, rushed headlong from my hiding-place towards the sound of the sea.
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：
-- The foremost Indian bounded like a stricken deer, and fell headlong among the clefts of the island.
-- Bounding from his footsteps he appeared for an instant darting through the air and descending in a ball he fell on the chest of his enemy, driving him many yards from the spot, headlong and prostrate.
-- It were impossible to say what violent assertion the stub-born Hawkeye would have next made, in his headlong wish to vindicate his identity, had not the aged Delaware once more interposed.
-- In vain Hawkeye called to him to respect the covers; the young Mo-hican braved the dangerous fire of his enemies, and soon compelled them to a flight as swift as his own headlong speed.
-- Uncas abandoned his rifle, and leaped forward with headlong pre-cipitation.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed with a de-mon, instead of keeping up it, made an opposite turn, and plunged headlong down hill to the left.
-- It encountered his cranium with a tremendous crash, he was tumbled headlong into the dust, and Gunpowder, the black steed, and the goblin rider, passed by like a whirlwind.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had a lively picture of Captain Nichols flying headlong down a narrow gangway before the uplifted foot of an angry mate, and, like a true Englishman, rejoicing in the spirit of the Mercantile Marine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A wall, a ruin, a sturdy gable end, would rise up in the road; and, when they were plunging headlong at it, would be the road itself.
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.
-- Like an impatient fool, I lugged over the lever, and incontinently the thing went reeling over, and I was flung headlong through the air.
-- Once I fell headlong and cut my face; I lost no time in stanching the blood, but jumped up and ran on, with a warm trickle down my cheek and chin.
-- Very cautiously, for I remembered my former headlong fall, I began to reverse my motion.
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