glimpse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 一瞥, 匆匆一看，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：
-- Paganel was so vexed at not being able to catch a glimpse of any Patagonians, that his companions were quite amused at him.
-- Silence still prevailed, but not tranquillity; for Thalcave caught a glimpse of shadows moving noiselessly over the tufts of CURRA-MAMMEL.
-- Glenarvan could now get a good glimpse of his antagonists, and saw that it was impossible to exaggerate their numbers or their fury.
-- But before either Thalcave or Glenarvan could get more than a glimpse of the boy, holding on fast by Thaouka's mane, he was out of sight.
-- Next day, March 4, at 5 A. M., at dawn, the passengers, including Mary and Robert, who would not stay behind, were all assembled on the poop, each one eager to examine the land they had only caught a glimpse of the night before.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive.
-- He is curiously employed at present, for, being an amateur astronomer, he has an excellent telescope, with which he lies upon the roof of his own house and sweeps the moor all day in the hope of catching a glimpse of the escaped convict.
-- There is an opening between two trees which enables one from this point of view to look right down upon it, while from all the other windows it is only a distant glimpse which can be ob-tained.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse of this, namely: all my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
-- I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow; and, as for the narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine upon any intelligent public of schoolboys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And the boy, too,' said the Jew, straining his eyes to catch a glimpse of her face.
-- 'Here's the house broken into,' said the doctor, 'and a couple of men catch one moment's glimpse of a boy, in the midst of gunpowder smoke, and in all the distraction of alarm and darkness.
-- Who can describe the pleasure and delight, the peace of mind and soft tranquillity, the sickly boy felt in the balmy air, and among the green hills and rich woods, of an inland village!Who can tell how scenes of peace and quietude sink into the minds of pain-worn dwellers in close and noisy places, and carry their own freshness, deep into their jaded hearts!Men who have lived in crowded, pent-up streets, through lives of toil, and who have never wished for change; men, to whom custom has indeed been second nature, and who have come almost to love each brick and stone that formed the narrow boundaries of their daily walks; even they, with the hand of death upon them, have been known to yearn at last for one short glimpse of Nature's face; and, carried far from the scenes of their old pains and pleasures, have seemed to pass at once into a new state of being.
-- As it dashed on, Oliver caught a glimpse of a man in a white nightcap, whose face seemed familiar to him, although his view was so brief that he could not identify the person.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was on the point of continu-ing her walk, when she caught a glimpse of a gentleman within the sort of grove which edged the park; he was mov-ing that way; and, fearful of its being Mr. Darcy, she was directly retreating.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They gaily ascended the downs, rejoicing in their own penetration at every glimpse of blue sky; and when they caught in their faces the animating gales of a high south-westerly wind, they pitied the fears which had prevented their mother and Elinor from sharing such delightful sensations.
-- Lodging as I did in Bond Street, there was hardly a day in which I did not catch a glimpse of one or other of you; and nothing but the most constant watchfulness on my side, a most invariably prevailing desire to keep out of your sight, could have separated us so long.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XVII A GLIMPSE THROUGH THE GATEWAY--HOPE LIGHTENS THE EYE The, to Carrie, very important theatrical performance was to take place at the Avery on conditions which were to make it more noteworthy than was at first anticipated.
-- Owing to the fact that the street was not yet built up solidly, it was possible to see east to the green tops of the trees in Central Park and west to the broad waters of the Hudson, a glimpse of which was to be had out of the west windows.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But by and by, sure enough, I catched a glimpse of fire away through the trees.
-- It would get so dark that it looked all blue-black outside, and lovely; and the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider- webby; and here would come a blast of wind that would bend the trees down and turn up the pale under- side of the leaves; and then a perfect ripper of a gust would fol-low along and set the branches to tossing their arms as if they was just wild; and next, when it was just about the blu-est and blackest FST!it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of tree- tops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of yards further than you could see before; dark as sin again in a second, and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash, and then go rum- bling, grumbling, tumbling, down the sky towards the under side of the world, like rolling empty barrels down stairs where it's long stairs and they bounce a good deal, you know.
-- No, you FEEL like you are laying dead still on the water; and if a little glimpse of a snag slips by you don't think to yourself how fast YOU'RE going, but you catch your breath and think, my!how that snag's tearing along.
-- I had just one little glimpse of the old gentleman when he come in; then the bed hid him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because of this, Pinocchio was able to catch a glimpse of the sky filled with stars, as he looked up through the open jaws of his new home.
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