hasten是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 催促 vi. 赶紧，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Set her down by the large bush with red berries, standing in the snow; don't stay talking, but hasten back as fast as possible.'
-- Out there, in the midst of the snow, there sat a woman in long, black clothes; and she said, 'Death has been in thy chamber, and I saw him hasten away with thy little child; he goes faster than the wind, and he never brings back what he takes!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The worthy fellow was ignorant that, while it was possible by such means to hasten the rate of a steamer, it could not be done on the railway.
-- Perhaps Fix's opinion of Phileas Fogg was somewhat modified; but he was nevertheless resolved to do his duty, and to hasten the return of the whole party to England as much as possible.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet such is the weakness of genus homo that sometimes, when I ought to be attending to practical details, I become obsessed by some probably absurd pathological concept, and so ridiculous am I that I can't wait to hasten down the hall to my regular laboratory--I must always have a bench at hand and an experiment going on.
-- After an evening of Gottlieb's acrid doubting, Martin was inspired to hasten to the laboratory and attempt a thousand new queries into the laws of micro-organisms, a task which usually began with blasphemously destroying all the work he had recently done.
-- Meantime Tubbs demanded: "Now, Martin, you must hasten and publish your results.
-- By evening, after working fourteen or fifteen hours since dawn, Stokes would hasten to St. Swithin's by motor-cycle--he hated the joggling and the lack of dignity and he found it somewhat dangerous to take curving hill- roads at sixty miles an hour, but this was the quickest way, and till midnight he conferred with Twyford, gave him orders for the next day, arranged his clumsy annotations, and marveled at his grim meekness.
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：
-- I hasten to tell you all about the matter, and though it has been arranged without asking your consent, I think you will not be aggrieved with me or with your sister on that account, for you will see that we could not wait and put off our decision till we heard from you.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though her nephew had had no particular reason to hasten back on her account, she had not lived above six-and-thirty hours after his return.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Troy went on "I shall soon purchase my discharge, and then ""But I wish you to hasten on this marriage!It will be better for you both.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 135Chapter 13 now hasten to the more moving part of my story.
-- I knew that I ought to hasten my descent towards the valley, as I should soon be encompassed in darkness; but my heart was heavy, and my steps slow.
-- She longed to bid me hasten my return; a thousand conflicting emotions rendered her mute as she bade me a tearful, silent farewell.
-- 201Chapter 20 sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and I the moon was just rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment, and I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should leave my labour for the night or hasten its conclusion by an unremitting attention to it.
-- How kind, how very kind!But where is he, why does he not hasten to me?'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he knew she loved him, he would hasten to her side.
-- When Lincoln refused to exchange prisoners, believing it would hasten the end of the war to burden theConfederacy with the feeding and guarding of Union prisoners, there were thousands of bluecoats at Andersonville,Georgia.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The water you seek springs from a well in an enchanted castle; and, that you may be able to reach it in safety, I will give you an iron wand and two little loaves of bread; strike the iron door of the castle three times with the wand, and it will open: two hungry lions will be lying down inside gap-ing for their prey, but if you throw them the bread they will let you pass; then hasten on to the well, and take some of the Water of Life before the clock strikes twelve; for if you tarry longer the door will shut upon you for ever.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These considerations moved me to hasten my depar-ture somewhat sooner than I intended; to which the court, impatient to have me gone, very readily contributed.
-- I went into another chamber, but was ready to hasten back, being almost overcome with a horrible stink.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This prediction stimulated Mrs Flintwinch to bestir herself, and to hasten up-stairs to Mrs Clennam's chamber.
-- For example, I am well convinced,' smiling sedately, as he cut up the dish of veal to be handed round, on the young man who had been put out of countenance, 'that if you, Monsieur, would give him the opportunity, he would hasten with great ardour to fulfil his duty.'
-- 'Open the door, and let me take my dear friend Jeremiah to my arms!Open the door, and let me hasten myself to embrace my Flintwinch!'
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