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：
-- This unexpected resistance gave Magua time to interpose, and with rapid enunciation and animated gesture, he drew the attention of the band again to himself.
-- Bold and rapid as was the progress of the scout, it was exceeded by that of a light and vigorous form which, bounding past him, leaped, with incredible activity and daring, into the very center of the Hurons, where it stood, whirling a tomahawk, and flourishing a glittering knife, with fearful menaces, in front of Cora.
-- A rapid and oblique glance at the moss on the trees, with an occasional upward gaze toward the setting sun, or a steady but passing look at the direction of the numerous water courses, through which he waded, were sufficient to determine his path, and remove his great- est difficulties.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are like those little nooks of still water, which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
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 rapid glimpse of a tiny apartment, half room, half studio, in which was nothing but a bed, canvases with their faces to the wall, an easel, a table, and a chair.
-- She withdrew her hands quickly, I had never seen her make so rapid a movement; and her cheeks flushed.
-- He had a sudden vision of her standing in the kitchen it was hardly larger than a cupboard washing the plates and glasses, the forks and spoons, giving the knives a rapid polish on the knife-board; and then putting everything away, giving the sink a scrub, and hanging the dish-cloth up to dry it was there still, a gray torn rag; then looking round to see that everything was clean and nice.
-- It was dark, for the curtains had been drawn over the great window, and he pulled them quickly back; but a sob broke from him as with a rapid glance he took in the place where he had been so happy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their rapid descent alone had informed them of the dangers which they ran from the waves.
-- His eye was steady, lively, rapid in its changes.
-- The islet and the coast were separated by a channel about half a mile in breadth, through which rushed an extremely rapid current.
-- It was composed of enormous blocks of granite, a few of which, insecurely balanced, seemed to tremble on their foundations, and Pencroft could feel rapid quiverings under his head as it rested on the rock.
-- Savages often kindle wood by means of rapid rubbing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seized it with the same rapid impatience which had characterised his speech, and hastily made his way to the other side of the screen.
-- There stood Dick, gazing now at the green gown, now at the brown head-dress, now at the face, and now at the rapid pen, in a state of stupid perplexity, wondering how he got into the company of that strange monster, and whether it was a dream and he would ever wake.
-- Up the steep hill too, crowned by the old grey castle, they toiled with rapid steps, and had not once looked behind.
-- On mounds of ashes by the wayside, sheltered only by a few rough boards, or rotten pent-house roofs, strange engines spun and writhed like tortured creatures; clanking their iron chains, shrieking in their rapid whirl from time to time as though in torment unendurable, and making the ground tremble with their agonies.
-- Certainly the friendship between the single gentleman and Mr Garland was not suffered to cool, but had a rapid growth and flourished exceedingly.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The eye looking from behind the grating disappeared, and Maslova took to the middle of the corridor, and with short, but rapid strides, followed the warden.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Queen gasped, and sat down: the rapid journey through the air had quite taken away her breath and for a minute or two she could do nothing but hug the little Lily in silence.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shaken as I was with these alarms, it was hard for me to keep up with the rapid pace of the treasure-hunters.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some time past vessels had been met by "an enormous thing," a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.
-- I made out his prevailing qualities directly: self-confidence because his head was well set on his shoulders, and his black eyes looked around with cold assurance; calmness for his skin, rather pale, showed his coolness of blood; energy evinced by the rapid contraction of his lofty brows; and courage because his deep breathing denoted great power of lungs.
-- Another effect I noticed, which was the passage of thick clouds which formed and vanished rapidly; but on reflection I understood that these seeming clouds were due to the varying thickness of the reeds at the bottom, and I could even see the fleecy foam which their broken tops multiplied on the water, and the shadows of large birds passing above our heads, whose rapid flight I could discern on the surface of the sea.
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