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：
-- Lady Helena flew toward her husband the moment he alighted; but he embraced her silently, and looked gloomy and disappointed—indeed, even furious.
-- Just at that moment John Mangles appeared at the top of the stairs.
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：
-- Obviously at the moment when Dr. Mortimer with-drew from the service of the hospital in order to start in practice for himself.
-- Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. What does Dr. James Mortimer, the man of science, ask of Sherlock Holmes, the specialist in crime?
-- 'Your hat and boots, Watson, quick!Not a moment to lose!'
-- One page is missing, but otherwise they are exactly as written and show my feel-ings and suspicions of the moment more accurately than my memory, clear as it is upon these tragic events, can pos-sibly do.
-- >From the first moment that he saw her he appeared to be strongly attracted by her, and I am much mis-taken if the feeling was not mutual.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face was decidedly a pleasant one for all that; refined, but quite colourless, except for the circum-stance that at this moment it was blue with cold.
-- The man who is attacked by robbers at night, in a dark wood, or anywhere, undoubtedly hopes and hopes that he may yet escape until the very moment of his death.
-- At this moment the study door opened, and a military man, with a portfolio under his arm, came out talking loud-ly, and after bidding good-bye to someone inside, took his departure.
-- the general continued to Gania, who had that moment taken a large photograph out of his portfolio, and shown it to his senior.
-- 'Thank you,' began the prince; 'and since you are so very kind there is just one matter which I ' 'You must really excuse me,' interrupted the general, 'but I positively haven't another moment now.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus, and in a moment she was at the ships of the Achaeans.
-- This he flung to his comrades among the Achaeans, and was again spring-ing upon Alexandrus to run him through with a spear, but Venus snatched him up in a moment (as a god can do), hid him under a cloud of darkness, and conveyed him to his own bedchamber.
-- He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a strong man's hand has reclaimed even so were the dense phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.
-- As the juice of the fig-tree cur-dles milk, and thickens it in a moment though it is liquid, even so instantly did Paeeon cure fierce Mars.
-- And Teucer answered, 'Most noble son of Atreus, you need not urge me; from the moment we began to drive them back to Ilius, I have never ceased so far as in me lies to look out for men whom I can shoot and kill; I have shot eight barbed shafts, and all of them have been buried in the flesh of warlike youths, but this mad dog I cannot hit.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a moment she stood gaping at him, too surprised to speak.
-- This muffled and bandaged head was so unlike what she had anticipated, that for a moment she was rigid.
-- But in another moment he was beside her.
-- For a moment they resisted him.
-- Not a moment ago.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Subsequently he alleged that his mind was a blank from the moment of his escape from the Lady Vain.
-- He came down out of the tangle of ropes under the stays of the smashed bowsprit, some small rope caught his heel as he let go, and he hung for a moment head downward, and then fell and struck a block or spar floating in the water.
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