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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER VIII THE GEOGRAPHER'S RESOLUTIONMEANTIME the yacht, favored by the currents from the north of Africa, was making rapid progress toward the equator.
-- She made rapid progress, and passed the Tropic of Cancer on the second of September at 5 A. M.The weather now began to change, and the atmosphere became damp and heavy.
-- They were all somewhat fatigued with the journey, and glad enough to halt for the night on the banks of the Neuquem, called Ramid, or Comoe by certain geographers, a troubled, turbulent rapid flowing between high red banks.
-- A rapid conversation followed, a few words of which were intelligible to Glenarvan.
-- Apparently it was the latter, for he threw a rapid glance on the combustible materials heaped up in the inclosure, and the expression of anxiety on his countenance seemed to deepen.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This rapid growth of self-confidence could not be due only to her hatred for Aglaya.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would, by father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that I were still young and strong as when the Pylians and Arcadians were gathered in fight by the rapid river Celadon under the walls of Pheia, and round about the waters of the river Iardanus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was so rapid that it gave him no time to observe.
-- But once there was a concussion and a sound of bottles ringing together as though the table had been hit, and the smash of a bottle flung violently down, and then a rapid pacing athwart the room.
-- As Hall stood there he heard his wife's voice coming out of the depth of the cellar, with that rapid telescoping of the syllables and interrogative cocking up of the final words to a high note, by which the West Sussex villager is wont to indicate a brisk impatience.
-- Whiffs of an unpleasant chemical odour met them, and there was a muffled sound of conversation, very rapid and subdued.
-- The conversation was rapid and subdued.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could hear the rapid patter of their feet, and Montgomery's voice soothing them.
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：
-- On that day, two men were lingering on the banks of a small but rapid stream, within an hour's journey of the en-campment of Webb, like those who awaited the appearance of an absent person, or the approach of some expected event.
-- At the next instant, a youthful warrior passed between them, with a noiseless step, and seated himself on the bank of the rapid stream.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No difficulty arose on either side in the agreement; and she waited only for the disposal of her effects at Norland, and to determine her future household, before she set off for the west; and this, as she was exceedingly rapid in the performance of everything that interested her, was soon done. The horses which were left her by her husband had been sold soon after his death, and an opportunity now offering of disposing of her carriage, she agreed to sell that likewise at the earnest advice of her eldest daughter.
-- She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through its more immediate premises; and the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, examining the bloom upon its walls, and listening to the gardener's lamentations upon blights, in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte, and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy-maid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.
-- The rapid decay, the early death of a girl so young, so lovely as Marianne, must have struck a less interested person with concern.
-- Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to soothe, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved.
-- But perseverance in humility of conduct and messages, in self-condemnation for Robert's offence, and gratitude for the unkindness she was treated with, procured her in time the haughty notice which overcame her by its graciousness, and led soon afterwards, by rapid degrees, to the highest state of affection and influence.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Street-car lines had been extended far out into the open country in anticipation of rapid growth.
-- Presently it began to gain speed, and Carrie saw the silent streets flashing by in rapid succession.
-- The train was again in rapid motion.
-- Florist shops, furriers, haberdashers, confectioners--all followed in rapid succession.
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