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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Temperance, industry, exercise, and cleanliness, are the lessons equally enjoined to the young ones of both sexes: and my master thought it monstrous in us, to give the fe-males a different kind of education from the males, except in some articles of domestic management; whereby, as he truly observed, one half of our natives were good for noth-ing but bringing children into the world; and to trust the care of our children to such useless animals, he said, was yet a greater instance of brutality.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bitzer knuckled his forehead again, in a sneaking manner, and seemed at once particularly impressed and depressed by the instance last given of Mr. Bounderby's moral abstinence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first instance we crossed some narrow streets, where we met numerous groups of galley slaves, with particolored trousers, grey and yellow, working under the orders and the sticks of severe taskmasters, and finally reached the Vor-Frelser's-Kirk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Even this old house in which we speak,' pursued her son, 'is an instance of what I say.
-- As it was, Mr Barnacle, finding his gentlemanly residence extremely inconvenient and extremely dear, always laid it, as a public servant, at the door of the country, and adduced it as another instance of the country's parsimony.
-- More than once or twice when Pet caressed the dog, it appeared to Clennam that her father was unhappy in seeing her do it; and, in one particular instance when Gowan stood on the other side of the dog, and bent his head at the same time, Arthur fancied that he saw tears rise to Mr Meagles's eyes as he hurried out of the room.
-- May I take this opportunity of remarking, as an instance in point, that it is scarcely delicate to look at vagrants with the attention which I have seen bestowed upon them by a very dear young friend of mine?
-- 'Over and above which,' said Flora, 'I earnestly beg you as the dearest thing that ever was if you'll still excuse the familiarity from one who moves in very different circles to let Arthur understand that I don't know after all whether it wasn't all nonsense between us though pleasant at the time and trying too and certainly Mr F. did work a change and the spell being broken nothing could be expected to take place without weaving it afresh which various circumstances have combined to prevent of which perhaps not the least powerful was that it was not to be, I am not prepared to say that if it had been agreeable to Arthur and had brought itself about naturally in the first instance I should not have been very glad being of a lively disposition and moped at home where papa undoubtedly is the most aggravating of his sex and not improved since having been cut down by the hand of the Incendiary into something of which I never saw the counterpart in all my life but jealousy is not my character nor ill-will though many faults.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the present instance there was no escape, and having clashed her scissors rebel-liously, while protesting that she smelled thunder, she gave in, put away her work, and taking up her hat and gloves with an air of resignation, told Amy the victim was ready.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At my first glimpse of the pulpit, it had not escaped me that however convenient for a ship, these joints in the present instance seemed unnecessary.
-- (Narwhale), that is, Nostril whale. Another instance of a curiously named whale, so named I suppose from his peculiar horn being originally mistaken for a peaked nose.
-- Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest of all voyages now or ever made by man), the peculiar perils of it, and the community of interest prevailing among a company, all of whom, high or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom materially relaxed, and in no instance done away.
-- In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing everything out to the last, literally died at his post.
-- First: I have personally known three instances where a whale, after receiving a harpoon, has effected a complete escape; and, after an interval (in one instance of three years), has been again struck by the same hand, and slain; when the two irons, both marked by the same private cypher, have been taken from the body.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is worthy of remark, as a curious physical instance of the efficacy of a sudden surprise in counteracting the effects of extreme fear, that her voice had quite recovered all its official asperity.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had not been long seated before he complimented Mrs. Bennet on hav-ing so fine a family of daughters; said he had heard much of their beauty, but that in this instance fame had fallen short of the truth; and added, that he did not doubt her seeing them all in due time disposed of in marriage.
-- Her aunt assured her that she was, and Elizabeth hav-ing thanked her for the kindness of her hints, they parted; a wonderful instance of advice being given on such a point, without being resented.
-- The power of displaying the grandeur of his patroness to his wondering visitors, and of letting them see her civility towards himself and his wife, was ex-actly what he had wished for; and that an opportunity of doing it should be given so soon, was such an instance of Lady Catherine's condescension, as he knew not how to ad-mire enough.
-- She tried to recollect some instance of goodness, some distin-guished trait of integrity or benevolence, that might rescue him from the attacks of Mr. Darcy; or at least, by the pre-dominance of virtue, atone for those casual errors under which she would endeavour to class what Mr. Darcy had described as the idleness and vice of many years' continu-ance.
-- Their other aunt also visit- ed them frequently, and always, as she said, with the design of cheering and heartening them up though, as she never came without reporting some fresh instance of Wickham's extravagance or irregularity, she seldom went away without leaving them more dispirited than she found them.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only know that I never yet heard her admit any instance of a second attachment's being pardonable."
-- To give you another instance of her liberality: The other day, as soon as we came to town, aware that money could not be very plenty with us just now, she put bank-notes into Fanny's hands to the amount of two hundred pounds.
-- The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There ain't no instance of it.
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