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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That black figure with its eyes of fire struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of child-hood came back to my mind.
-- I heard him call, and for the moment I do not think I no-ticed.
-- For a moment I could see nothing but the waving summits of the ferns and reeds.
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：
-- The stranger regarded his interrogator a moment in won-der; and then, losing every mark of self-satisfaction in an expression of solemn humility, he answered: 'Of offense, I hope there is none, to either party: ofdefense, I make none by God's good mercy, having com-mitted no palpable sin since last entreating his pardoning grace.
-- She pointed persuasively along the path with her riding whip, while their eyes met in a look which the young man lingered a moment to pro-long; then, yielding to her gentle influence, he clapped his spurs into his charger, and in a few bounds was again at the side of Cora.
-- The delivery of these skillful rhymes was accompanied, on the part of the stranger, by a regular rise and fall of his right hand, which terminated at the descent, by suffering the fingers to dwell a moment on the leaves of the little vol-ume; and on the ascent, by such a flourish of the member as none but the initiated may ever hope to imitate.
-- Notwithstanding the symptoms of habitual suspicion, his countenance was not only without guile, but at the moment at which he is introduced, it was charged with an expression of sturdy honesty.
-- For a moment he appeared to be conscious of having the worst of the argument, then, rallying again, he answered the objection of his antagonist in the best manner his limited information would allow: 'I am no scholar, and I care not who knows it; but, judg-ing from what I have seen, at deer chases and squirrel hunts, of the sparks below, I should think a rifle in the hands of their grandfathers was not so dangerous as a hickory bow and a good flint-head might be, if drawn with Indian judg-ment, and sent by an Indian eye.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the moment Ichabod laid his eyes upon these re-gions of delight, the peace of his mind was at an end, and his only study was how to gain the affections of the peer-less daughter of Van Tassel.
-- Sometimes his crew would be heard dashing along past the farmhouses at midnight, with whoop and halloo, like a troop of Don Cossacks; and the old dames, startled out of their sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry-scurry had clat-tered by, and then exclaim, 'Ay, there goes Brom Bones and his gang!'
-- He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his na-ture; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack脙聞yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away jerk! he was as erect, and carried his head as high as ever.
-- Certain it is, this was not the case with the redoubtable Brom Bones; and from the moment Ichabod Crane made his advances, the interests of the former evidently declined: his horse was no longer seen tied to the palings on Sunday nights, and a deadly feud gradually arose between him and the preceptor of Sleepy Hollow.
-- Just at this moment a plashy tramp by the side of the bridge caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE MOON AND SIXPENCEChapter II confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.
-- I remember that I thought their conversation brilliant, and I used to listen with astonishment to the stinging humour with which they would tear a brother-author to pieces the moment that his back was turned.
-- She accepted the rules with which they played the game of life as valid for them, but never for a moment thought of regulating her own conduct in accordance with them.
-- It was likely enough that in the agitation of the moment my note had escaped her memory.
-- Chapter IX"This is a terrible thing," he said, the moment we got out into the street.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that moment a loud voice, the voice of a man whose heart was inaccessible to fear, was heard.
-- And hundreds of times Captain Harding had almost been among those who were not counted by the terrible Grant; but in these combats where he never spared himself, fortune favored him till the moment when he was wounded and taken prisoner on the field of battle near Richmond.
-- At that moment a dog sprang with a bound into the car.
-- Only two minutes had passed from the time when Cyrus Harding disappeared to the moment when his companions set foot on the ground.
-- The castaways, although their strength was nearly exhausted, still marched courageously forward, hoping every moment to meet with a sudden angle which would set them in the first direction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glare and hurry of broad noon are not adapted to idle pursuits like mine; a glimpse of passing faces caught by the light of a street-lamp or a shop window is often better for my purpose than their full revelation in the daylight; and, if I must add the truth, night is kinder in this respect than day, which too often destroys an air-built castle at the moment of its completion, without the least ceremony or remorse.
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