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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were just in time to catch a glimpse of the tall, black-bearded fig-ure, his shoulders rounded, as he tip-toed down the passage.
-- Let us see if we can get a glimpse of him.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'At the first glimpse of the rising sun, prince, I will go to bed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she did so her visitor moved quickly, so that she got but a glimpse of a white object disappearing behind the table.
-- He caught a glimpse of a most singular thing, what seemed a handless arm waving towards him, and a face of three huge indeterminate spots on white, very like the face of a pale pansy.
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：
-- returned the disappointed scout; 'I heard the imp brushing over the dry leaves, like a black snake, and blinking a glimpse of him, just over ag'in yon big pine, I pulled as it might be on the scent; but 'twouldn't do!and yet for a reasoning aim, if any-body but myself had touched the trigger, I should call it a quick sight; and I may be accounted to have experience in these matters, and one who ought to know.
-- Hardly a breath was drawn by those he left behind, until they caught a glimpse of his head emerging for air, far down the current, when he again sank, and was seen no more.
-- Rushing to the outlet, Heyward caught a glimpse of his dark figure stealing around a low and narrow ledge, which soon hid him entirely from sight.
-- said Hawkeye, bending to catch a glimpse of the direction, and then instantly moving on-ward.
-- But the quick and dancing eyes of Al-ice soon caught a glimpse of his figure reflected from a glass, and she sprang blushing from her father's knee, exclaiming aloud: 'Major Heyward!'
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.
-- I had a fleeting glimpse of a pursuit of the ineffable.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the night the engineer could not dream of descending, and when day broke, even a glimpse of the earth below was intercepted by fog.
-- But at last, if all indication of an encampment escaped Herbert's sight could he not even catch a glimpse of smoke, the faintest trace of which would be easily discernible in the pure atmosphere?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glare and hurry of broad noon are not adapted to idle pursuits like mine; a glimpse of passing faces caught by the light of a street-lamp or a shop window is often better for my purpose than their full revelation in the daylight; and, if I must add the truth, night is kinder in this respect than day, which too often destroys an air-built castle at the moment of its completion, without the least ceremony or remorse.
-- Kit walked about, now with quick steps and now with slow; now lingering as some rider slackened his horse's pace and looked about him; and now darting at full speed up a bye-street as he caught a glimpse of some distant horseman going lazily up the shady side of the road, and promising to stop, at every door.
-- At that moment he caught a parting glimpse of the brown head-dress of Miss Brass flitting down the kitchen stairs.
-- With which words, and knocking his hat over his eyes as if for the purpose of shutting out even a glimpse of the dreadful visitation, Mr Brass rushed from the house and hurried away.
-- Once in the street, moved by some secret impulse, he laughed, and held his sides, and laughed again, and tried to peer through the dusty area railings as if to catch another glimpse of the child, until he was quite tired out.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the terrible veil, which during these twelve years in such marvelous manner had hidden from him that crime and all his subsequent life, already began to stir, and now and then he caught a glimpse behind it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, in the intermittent darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars.
-- (Afterwards I found I had got only a half truth or only a glimpse of one facet of the truth.)
-- If only I had thought of a Kodak!I could have flashed that glimpse of the Underworld in a second, and examined it at leisure.
-- "I was afraid to push my way in among all this machinery in the dark, and it was only with my last glimpse of light I discovered that my store of matches had run low.
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