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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the present instance hatred and revenge were the jailers—not an indifferent warder; the prisoners were not bound, but it was because bonds were useless when five-and-twenty men were watching the only egress from the Ware-Atoua.
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：
-- If your position is innocent, why did you in the first instance deny having written to Sir Charles upon that date?'
-- 'Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were several rumours afloat, before long, which upset Totski's equanimity a good deal, but we will not now stop to describe them; merely mentioning an instance or two.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His case was discussed among psychologists at the time as a curious instance of the lapse of memory consequent upon physi-cal and mental stress.
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：
-- 'This certainly is a rare and brilliant instance of those natural qualities in which these peculiar people are said to excel,' he answered.
-- Heyward had too recently witnessed a frightful instance of the prompt punishments of the people into whose hands he had fallen to hazard an exposure by any officious boldness.
-- He had witnessed one instance of the summary punishments of the Indians, and now dreaded that his companion was to be selected for a second.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This Toby has been stolen in youth from another gentleman, and fraudulently sold to the confiding hero, who having no guile himself has no suspicion that it lurks in others; but Toby, entertaining a grateful recollection of his old master, and scorning to attach himself to any new patrons, not only refuses to smoke a pipe at the bidding of Punch, but to mark his old fidelity more strongly, seizes him by the nose and wrings the same with violence, at which instance of canine attachment the spectators are deeply affected.
-- CHAPTER 60Kit stood as one entranced, with his eyes opened wide and fixed upon the ground, regardless alike of the tremulous hold which Mr Brass maintained on one side of his cravat, and of the firmer grasp of Miss Sally upon the other; although this latter detention was in itself no small inconvenience, as that fascinating woman, besides screwing her knuckles inconveniently into his throat from time to time, had fastened upon him in the first instance with so tight a grip that even in the disorder and distraction of his thoughts he could not divest himself of an uneasy sense of choking.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was to her the most crucial instance of the existing world, the ne plus ultra of the world of man as it existed for her.
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