instance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 例子， 事例， 例证，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin maintained that the mistake of Wagner and all his followers lay in their trying to take music into the sphere of another art, just as poetry goes wrong when it tries to paint a face as the art of painting ought to do, and as an instance of this mistake he cited the sculptor who carved in marble certain poetic phantasms flitting round the figure of the poet on the pedestal.
-- And a recent instance of his goodness rose vividly to her mind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the present instance things had not gone so smoothly.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As for instance the nice, lovely, lucid politicians!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not so much that his hands were shaking, but that he kept making mistakes; though he saw for instance that a key was not the right one and would not 118 Crime and Punishmentfit, still he tried to put it in.
-- Everyone has subjects of conversation, ladies for instance 芒聙娄 people in high society always have their subjects of conversation, c'est de rigueur but people of the middle sort like us, thinking people that is, are always tongue-tied and awkward.
-- One instance had ended in great scandal for the person attacked and the other had very nearly ended in se-rious trouble.
-- Yet she thoroughly understands some 520 Crime and Punishmentquestions, for instance about kissing of hands, that is, that it's an insult to a woman for a man to kiss her hand, be-cause it's a sign of inequality.
-- One might for instance get up a subscription for her, or a lottery, something of the sort, such as is always ar-ranged in such cases by friends or even outsiders desirous of assisting people.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I set down this remembrance here, becauseit is an instance to myself of the manner in which I fitted my old 163books to my altered life, and made stories for myself, out of thestreets, and out of men and women; and how some main points inthe character I shall unconsciously develop, I suppose, in writingmy life, were gradually forming all this while.
-- An instance happenedbefore dinner was done.
-- Now that, mychild,' continued Miss Mowcher, rubbing all the time as busily asever, 'is another instance of the refreshing humbug I was speaking 311of.
-- It was a remarkable instance of want of forethought on the part ofthe ironmonger who had made Mrs. Crupp's kitchen fireplace, thatit was capable of cooking nothing but chops and mashed potatoes.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although in one instance the bearers of not good tidings, Mr. and Mrs. Weston's visit this morning was in another re-spect particularly opportune.
-- 'Well,' said Mrs. Weston, smiling, 'you give him credit for more simple, disinterested benevolence in this instance than I do; for while Miss Bates was speaking, a suspicion darted into my head, and I have never been able to get it out again.
-- ' She was afraid she had done her nothing but disservice. It was true that she had not to charge herself, in this instance as in the former, with being the sole and original author of the mischief; with having suggested such feelings as might oth-erwise never have entered Harriet's imagination; for Harriet had acknowledged her admiration and preference of Frank Churchill before she had ever given her a hint on the subject; but she felt completely guilty of having encouraged what she might have repressed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
-- This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel ears like the thirteenth stroke of crazy clock.
-- All the night he had been feeling that the neglect he was labouring to repair was abnormal and isolated the only instance of the kind within the circuit of the county.
-- Travellers for the variety tourist had hardly developed into a distinct species at this date sometimes said in passing, when they cast their eyes up to the sign-bearing tree, that artists were fond of representing the signboard hanging thus, but that they themselves had never before noticed so perfect an instance in actual working order.
-- It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of the master-spirits of that time in grotesque; and certainly in the instance of Gothic art there is no disputing the proposition.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For an instance there was a silence so acute it seemed that neither of them even breathed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This I mention as an instance of the great power of habit and prejudice.
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