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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was rather a shallow sort of young gentleman, I thought, with ahandsome face, a rapid utterance, and a confident bold air.
-- As my eye glanced round this place, I thought I saw sitting, by anopen port, with one of the Micawber children near her, a figure likeEmily's; it first attracted my attention, by another figure partingfrom it with a kiss; and as it glided calmly away through thedisorder, reminding me of- Agnes!But in the rapid motion andconfusion, and in the unsettlement of my own thoughts, I lost itagain; and only knew that the time was come when all visitorswere being warned to leave the ship; that my nurse was crying ona chest beside me; and that Mrs. Gummidge, assisted by someyounger stooping woman in black, was busily arranging Mr.Peggotty's goods.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same civilities and courtesies, the same success and satisfaction, took place on the morrow, and accompanied the whole progress of the picture, which was rapid and hap-py.
-- Instanc-es have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any de-scription, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made when the felici-ties of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.
-- A mind like hers, once opening to suspicion, made rapid progress.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This exceptional ringing may be caused in two ways by the rapid feeding of the sheep bearing the bell, as when the flock breaks into new pasture, which gives it an intermittent rapidity, or by the sheep starting off in a run, when the sound has a regular palpitation.
-- THE HOLLOW AMID THE FERNSThe hill opposite Bathsheba's dwelling extended, a mile off, into an uncultivated tract of land, dotted at this season with tall thickets of brake fern, plump and diaphanous from recent rapid growth, and radiant in hues of clear and untainted green.
-- It was on the obscure side of the tower, screened to a great extent from the view of passers along the road a spot which until lately had been abandoned to heaps of stones and bushes of alder, but now it was cleared and made orderly for interments, by reason of the rapid filling of the ground elsewhere.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am in a position to make a rapid fortune, but I want twelve hundred francs--I must have them at all costs.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequali-14 Frankensteinties of the ice.
-- 'I continued to wind among the paths of the wood, until I came to its boundary, which was skirted by a deep and rapid river, into which many of the trees bent their branches, now budding with the fresh spring.
-- She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream.
-- Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devouring *maladie du pays*, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood; but my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were seldom interrupted but by paroxysms of anguish and despair.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she stood watching them, hot eyed and dizzy, she heard the rapid pounding of ahorse's hooves on the front drive, the scattering of gravel and the sound of an excited voice calling a question to oneof the negroes.
-- Living with Charles' blood kin, seeing the home from which he came, Scarlett could now understand a little betterthe boy who had made her wife, widow and mother in such rapid succession.
-- Again the gray lines were summoned swiftly from their red ditches to defend the railroad, and,weary for sleep, exhausted from marching and fighting, and hungry, always hungry, they made another rapid marchdown the valley.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My rapid mind pursued him to the town, made a picture of the street with him in it, and contrasted its lights and life with the lonely marsh and the white vapor creeping over it, into which I should have dissolved.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So on they went till they came to a rapid stream.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was also to exhibit 'his astounding feat of throwing seventy-five hundred-weight in rapid succession backhanded over his head, thus forming a fountain of solid iron in mid-air, a feat never before attempted in this or any other country, and which having elicited such rapturous plaudits from enthusiastic throngs it cannot be withdrawn.'
-- The boy stopped in his rapid blinking, knuckled his forehead again, glanced at Sissy, turned about, and retreated.
-- All the mothers could (and did) dance, upon the slack wire and the tight-rope, and perform rapid acts on bare-backed steeds; none of them were at all particular in respect of showing their legs; and one of them, alone in a Greek chariot, drove six in hand into every town they came to.
-- Opening his arms wide he took her by both her hands, and would have sprung her up and down, after the riding-master manner of congratulating young ladies on their dismounting from a rapid act; but there was no rebound in Sissy, and she only stood before him crying.
-- A clattering of clogs upon the pavement; a rapid ringing of bells; and all the melancholy mad elephants, polished and oiled up for the day's monotony, were at their heavy exercise again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 25 THE WHISPERING GALLERY CHAPTER 26 A RAPID RECOVERY CHAPTER 27 THE CENTRAL SEA CHAPTER 28 LAUNCHING THE RAFT CHAPTER 29 ON THE WATERS--A RAFT VOYAGE CHAPTER 30 TERRIFIC SAURIAN COMBAT CHAPTER 31 THE SEA MONSTER CHAPTER 32 THE BATTLE OF THE ELEMENTS CHAPTER 33 OUR ROUTE REVERSED CHAPTER 34 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY CHAPTER 35 DISCOVERY UPON DISCOVERY CHAPTER 36 WHAT IS IT?
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