moment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 片刻， 瞬间， 时刻，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：
-- Although they had but that moment left the school be-hind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battle for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.
-- But if you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choos-ing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repen-tance and regret would surely follow.
-- For, he wished to challenge the Spirit on the moment of its appearance, and did not wish to be taken by surprise, and made nervous.
-- All this time, he lay upon his bed, the very core and centre of a blaze of ruddy light, which streamed upon it when the clock pro-claimed the hour; and which, being only light, was more alarming than a dozen ghosts, as he was powerless to make out what it meant, or would be at; and was sometimes appre-hensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the con-solation of knowing it.
-- The moment Scrooge's hand was on the lock, a strange voice called him by his name, and bade him enter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our booked passenger showed in a moment that it was his name.
-- He watched her as she mused, and the moment she raised her eyes again, went on: 'In your adopted country, I presume, I cannot do better than address you as a young English lady, Miss Manette?'
-- This third interchange of the Christian name was com-pleted at the moment when Madame Defarge put her toothpick by, kept her eyebrows up, and slightly rustled in her seat.
-- His eyes came slowly back, at last, to the face from which they had wan-dered; when they rested on it, he started, and resumed, in the manner of a sleeper that moment awake, reverting to a subject of last night.
-- Don't be a moment behind them, for I want you to take the verdict back to the bank.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- * * A.D. 1482-1513 While the conversation turned on this subject, and was only for a moment interrupted by the arrival of a journal that contained nothing worth reading, we will just step out into the antechamber, where cloaks, mackintoshes, sticks, umbrellas, and shoes, were deposited.
-- 'No; he will be very unhappy, and will as-suredly bless the moment when he feels that he has freed himself from the fatal shoes.'
-- said the Councillor, who knew nothing of the age in which he at that moment was.
-- With other topics he was not so fortunate; every moment brought about some new confusion, and threatened to become a perfect Babel; for the worthy Bach-elor was really too ignorant, and the simplest observations of the Councillor sounded to him too daring and phantasti-cal.
-- 'It is the most dreadful moment of my life: the whole world is leagued against me!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that moment in the next room a child began to cry; probably it had fallen down.
-- The place where she stood seemed to him a holy shrine, unapproachable, and there was one moment when he was almost retreating, so overwhelmed was he with terror.
-- At that moment one of the young men, the best of the skaters of the day, came out of the coffee- house in his skates, with a cigarette in his mouth.
-- At that moment Stepan Arkadyevitch, his hat cocked on one side, with beaming face and eyes, strode into the garden like a conquering hero.
-- But still it's queer to me, just as at this moment it seems queer to me that we country folks try to get our meals over as soon as we can, so as to be ready for our work, while here are we trying to drag out our meal as long as possible, and with that object eating oysters..." "Why, of course," objected Stepan Arkadyevitch.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rap at this moment sounded on the door of the cosy apartment where Phileas Fogg was seated, and James Forster, the dismissed servant, appeared.
-- A package of banknotes, to the value of fifty-five thousand pounds, had been taken from the principal cashier's table, that functionary being at the moment engaged in registering the receipt of three shillings and sixpence.
-- "So we haven't a moment to lose."
-- "My gas-burner, which I forgot to turn off, and which is at this moment burning at my expense.
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