rapid是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 快， 急速的n. (pl. ) 急流， 湍滩，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
-- Its rapid little pulse beat twelve: and stopped.
-- But when at last, he caught her; when, in spite of all her silken rustlings, and her rapid flutterings past him, he got her into a corner whence there was no escape; then his conduct was the most exe-crable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hoarse messenger, uncom-fortably seated on a form after taking that refection, had dropped into a doze, when a loud murmur and a rapid tide of people setting up the stairs that led to the court, carried him along with them.
-- Madame Defarge's dark eyes followed her through this rapid movement, and rested on her when it was finished.
-- Thus Miss Pross, with a shake of her head and a flash of her eyes between every rapid sentence, and every rapid sentence a whole breath.
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：
-- 'How did you get upon the large rapid river, to be driven about so in the wide world!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He squared his chest, took out a cigarette, took two whiffs at it, flung it into a mother-of-pearl ashtray, and with rapid steps walked through the drawing room, and opened the other door into his wife's bedroom.
-- In a rapid glance she scanned his figure that beamed with health and freshness.
-- Catching sight of Kitty going away, and her mother meeting her at the steps, Levin, flushed from his rapid exercise, stood still and pondered a minute.
-- She went out with the rapid step which bore her rather fully-developed figure with such strange lightness.
-- Farther on, it was continually the same again and again: the same shaking and rattling, the same snow on the window, the same rapid transitions from steaming heat to cold, and back again to heat, the same passing glimpses of the same figures in the twilight, and the same voices, and Anna began to read and to understand what she read.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he passed among the busy crowd, Fix, according to habit, scrutinised the passers-by with a keen, rapid glance.
-- Fix instinctively took the passport, and with a rapid glance read the description of its bearer.
-- The Mongolia, thanks to the vigorous exertions of the engineer, seemed likely, so rapid was her speed, to reach her destination considerably within that time.
-- Kiouni, resuming his rapid gait, soon descended the lower spurs of the Vindhias, and towards noon they passed by the village of Kallenger, on the Cani, one of the branches of the Ganges.
-- A moment after all four of the party had disappeared in the woods, and the elephant was bearing them away at a rapid pace.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The University has a baseball field under glass; its buildings are measured by the mile; it hires hundreds of young Doctors of Philosophy to give rapid instruction in Sanskrit, navigation, accountancy, spectacle-fitting, sanitary engineering, Provencal poetry, tariff schedules, rutabaga-growing, motor-car designing, the history of Voronezh, the style of Matthew Arnold, the diagnosis of myohypertrophia kymoparalytica, and department- store advertising.
-- His scientific knowledge was rather thinner than that of the visiting nurses, but he had little jealousy, and he demanded of Martin only the belief that a rapid and noisy moving from place to place is the means (and possibly the end) of Progress.
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：
-- flashed as it were by chance through Raskolnikov's mind, and with a rapid glance he scanned everything in the room, trying as far as possible to notice and remember its arrangement.
-- 'It's a difficult job,' the policeman said to Raskolnikov, and as he did so, he looked him up and down in a rapid glance.
-- With a curse he returned with rapid steps to the Palais de Cristal to question Zame-tov.
-- He was just descending the last steps when he heard rapid footsteps behind him.
-- 'You gave us everything yesterday,' Sonia said suddenly, in reply, in a loud rapid whisper; and again she looked down in confusion.
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