onward是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. &adj. 向前(的)，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：
-- The OMBU was borne onward so rapidly by the impetuous torrent, that anyone might have supposed some powerful locomotive engine was hidden in its trunk.
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：
-- One fact which has not been explained is the statement of Bar-rymore that his master's footprints altered their character from the time that he passed the moor-gate, and that he ap-peared from thence onward to have been walking upon his toes.
-- An instant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction, and, following the direction of his eager eyes, I saw that a han-som cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was now proceeding slowly onward again.
-- Chapter 8 First Report of Dr. Watson rom this point onward I will follow the course of events Fby transcribing my own letters to Mr. Sherlock Holm-es which lie before me on the table.
-- So as the fog-bank flowed onward we fell back before it until we were half a mile from the house, and still that dense white sea, with the moon silvering its upper edge, swept slowly and inexorably on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Spirit answered not, but pointed onward with its hand.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this he left them and went onward to Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, who was marshalling his men and urging them on, in company with Pelagon, Alastor, Chromius, Haemon, and Bias shepherd of his people.
-- Hector made him no answer, but rushed onward to fall at once upon the Achaeans and kill many among them.
-- The terrible spear went through his gleaming shield, and pressed onward through his cuirass of cunning workman-ship; it pierced the shirt against his side, but he swerved and thus saved his life.
-- Ulysses would not give ear, but sped onward to the ships of the Achaeans, and the son of Tydeus flinging himself alone into the thick of the fight took his stand before the horses of the son of Neleus.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Onward March Magazine, which specialized in biographies of Men Who Have Made Good, had an account of Pickerbaugh among its sketches of the pastor who built his own, beautiful Neo- Gothic church out of tin cans, the lady who had in seven years kept 2,698 factory-girls from leading lives of shame, and the Oregon cobbler who had taught himself to read Sanskrit, Finnish, and Esperanto.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw the square figure sitting erect upon the horse, the head turned to neither side, the elbows steady by the hips, the brim of the hat level and undisturbed in its onward glide, until the keen edges of Boldwood's shape sank by degrees over the hill.
-- At length her onward walk dwindled to the merest totter, and she opened a gate within which was a haystack.
-- "Well, really, I must be onward again now," said Joseph.
-- He started onward again, and sending a woman to her, went out to ascertain all the facts of the case.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she finished her prayers and Suellen, then Carreen, began their decades,her mind was still speeding onward with her entrancing new thought.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same great manufacturer, always with an immense variety of work on hand, in every stage of development, passed Sissy onward in his mill, and worked her up into a very pretty article indeed.
-- Step by step, onward and downward, towards some end, yet so gradually, that she believed herself to remain motionless.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Riotous and disordered as the universal commotion now was, it soon resolved itself into what seemed a systematic movement; for having clumped together at last in one dense body, they then renewed their onward flight with augmented fleetness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away they fly, splashing through the mud, and rattling along the pavements: up go the windows, out run the people, onward bear the mob, a whole audience desert Punch in the very thickest of the plot, and, joining the rushing throng, swell the shout, and lend fresh vigour to the cry, 'Stop thief!Stop thief!'
-- Sikes waited until he had fairly gone; and then, telling Oliver he might look about him if he wanted, once again led him onward on his journey.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Trucks were rumbling in increasing numbers; men and women, girls and boys were moving onward in all directions.
-- It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairylands of delight.
-- Hopelessly he turned back into Broadway again and slopped onward and away, begging, crying, losing track of his thoughts, one after another, as a mind decayed and disjointed is wont to do.
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