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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a moment they all sat silent, gazing at this frail relic, wondering if it told the tale of sad disaster, or brought some trifling message from a frolic-loving sailor, who had flung it into the sea to amuse himself when he had nothing better to do.
-- It ran as follows:7 Juni Glas zwei atrosen graus bringt ihnen"This is written in German," said John Mangles the moment he looked at it.
-- [7th of June, 1862 three-mast BRITANNIA Glasgow]foundered gonie southernon the coast two sailors GrCaptain landedcontin pr cruel indi thrown this document in longitudeand 37 degrees 11" latitude Bring them assistance lostJust at that moment one of the sailors came to inform the captain that they were about entering the Firth of Clyde, and to ask what were his orders.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the storm was so violent that I saw, what is not often seen, the master, the boatswain, and some others more sensible than the rest, at their prayers, and expecting every moment when the ship would go to the bottom.
-- I must acknowledge I had hardly eyes to look up when the seamen told me she was sinking; for from the moment that they rather put me into the boat than that I might be said to go in, my heart was, as it were, dead within me, partly with fright, partly with horror of mind, and the thoughts of what was yet before me.
-- This moment my former notions of deliverance darted into my thoughts, for now I found I was likely to have a little ship at my command; and my master being gone, I prepared to furnish myself, not for fishing business, but for a voyage; though I knew not, neither did I so much as con-sider, whither I should steer - anywhere to get out of that place was my desire.
-- and we had no sooner run out of the cabin to look out, in hopes of see-ing whereabouts in the world we were, than the ship struck upon a sand, and in a moment her motion being so stopped, the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were im-mediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.
-- I believe it is impossible to express, to the life, what the ec-stasies and transports of the soul are, when it is so saved, as I may say, out of the very grave: and I do not wonder now at the custom, when a malefactor, who has the halter about his neck, is tied up, and just going to be turned off, and has a reprieve brought to him - I say, I do not wonder that they bring a surgeon with it, to let him blood that very moment they tell him of it, that the surprise may not drive the ani-mal spirits from the heart and overwhelm him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing; but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immovable disgust.
-- He seemed really anxious to accommodate them and the whole of his letter was written in so friendly a style as could not fail of giving pleasure to his cousin; more especially at a moment when she was suffering under the cold and unfeeling behaviour of her nearer connections.
-- One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate.
-- From that moment she doubted not of their being engaged to each other; and the belief of it created no other surprise than that she, or any of their friends, should be left by tempers so frank, to discover it by accident.
-- "If the impertinent remarks of Mrs. Jennings are to be the proof of impropriety in conduct, we are all offending every moment of our lives.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moment he was gone, the conversation was resumed again.
-- he asked, lingering a moment as he turned upon his heel to go into the bathroom.
-- When she had closed the hall-door, she paused a moment and wondered what they would think.
-- She became for the moment a repentant.
-- He never for a moment concealed the fact of her attraction for himself.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, my friend, it is too true your eyes is look- in' at this very moment on the pore disappeared Dauphin, Looy the Seventeen, son of Looy the Six- teen and Marry An-tonette.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am waiting for my father, who will be here at any moment now."
-- Pinocchio hesitated a moment before answering, for he remembered the good Fairy, o ld Geppetto, and the advice of the Talking Cricket.
-- CHAPTER 28 Pinocchio runs the danger of being fried in a pan like a fish During that wild chase, Pinocchio lived through a terrible moment when he almost gave himself up as lost.
-- Oh, if I had come a moment later!"
-- If you had come a moment later, I would be fried, eaten, and digested by this time.
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