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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the 19owl flew into a bush; and a moment after the old fairy came forth pale and meagre, with staring eyes, and a nose and chin that almost met one another.
-- Even the fire on the hearth left off blazing, and went to sleep; the jack stopped, and the spit that was turning about with a goose upon it for the king's dinner stood still; and the cook, who was at that moment pulling the kitchen-boy by the hair to give him a box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep; the butler, who was slyly tasting the ale, fell asleep with the jug at his lips: and thus everything stood still, and slept soundly.
-- But the moment he kissed her she opened her eyes and awoke, and smiled upon him; and they went out together; and soon the king and queen also awoke, and all the court, and gazed on each other with great wonder.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems, that upon the first moment I was discovered sleeping on the ground, after my landing, the emperor had early notice of it by an express; and determined in council, that I should be tied in the manner I have related, (which was done in the night while I slept;) that plenty of meat and drink should be sent to me, and a machine prepared to car-ry me to the capital city.
-- All I ventured was to raise mine eyes towards the sun, and place my hands to-gether in a supplicating posture, and to speak some words in a humble melancholy tone, suitable to the condition I then was in: for I apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground, as we usually do any little hate-ful animal, which we have a mind to destroy.
-- Of less moment which were in my first copy, for fear of being cen-sured as tedious and trifling, whereof travellers are often, perhaps not without justice, accused.
-- I heard Glumdalclitch give a shriek at the moment he was carrying me out.
-- Here I sat for some time, five hundred yards from the ground, expecting every moment to be blown down by the wind, or to fall by my own giddiness, and come tumbling over and over from the ridge to the eaves; but an honest lad, one of my nurse's footmen, climbed up, and putting me into his breeches pocket, brought me down safe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabular statements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared in short, it was the only clear thing in the case that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen; that do what you would for them they were never thankful for it, gentlemen; that they were restless, gentlemen; that they never knew what they wanted; that they lived upon the best, and bought fresh butter; and insisted on Mocha coffee, and rejected all but prime parts of meat, and yet were eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable.
-- 'It's only crossing the bar, sir, and up the stairs, if you wouldn't mind, and waiting there for a moment till I get a candle.
-- They expected every moment to hear Merrylegs give tongue, but the highly trained performing dog had not barked when the girl and the candle appeared together.
-- I don't know what this jolly old Jaundiced Jail,' Tom had paused to find a sufficiently complimentary and expressive name for the parental roof, and seemed to relieve his mind for a moment by the strong alliteration of this one, 'would be without you.'
-- The expression was not lost upon her; she laid her hand lightly on his arm a moment as if to thank him for it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now to tell the truth, at that moment I was far more interested in the question as to what was to constitute our dinner than in any problem of science; to me soup was more interesting than soda, an omelette more tempting than arithmetic, and an artichoke of ten times more value than any amount of asbestos.
-- For a moment neither of us spoke.
-- At this moment I came face to face with Gretchen, whom I warmly embraced.
-- In twenty minutes from the moment of our departure we were in Holstein, and our carriage entered the station.
-- On the eighth day, the captain made out Myganness, the westernmost of the isles, and from that moment headed direct for Portland, a cape on the southern shores of the singular island for which we were bound.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For Connie had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything.
-- Sufficient unto the moment is the APPEARANCE of reality.
-- Clifford was inviting the young man of thirty at an in-auspicious moment in thyoung man's career.
-- 'This is the last moment when I ought to hate you,' she said resentfully.
-- She paused a moment to consider.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No!You knew from the first moment when you saw me here, that I was a gentleman?'
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