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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took advantage of a moment when she was absent to venture a hint on this point, to which the old man replied that there were few grown persons as trustworthy or as careful as she.
-- The old man paused a moment while it was gently closed and fastened on the inside, and satisfied that this was done, walked on at a slow pace.
-- 'But what,' said Mr Swiveller with a sigh, 'what is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather!What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!'
-- To relate how it was a long time before his modesty could be so far prevailed upon as it admit of his sitting down in the parlour, in the presence of an unknown gentleman how, when he did set down, he tucked up his sleeves and squared his elbows and put his face close to the copy-book and squinted horribly at the lines how, from the very first moment of having the pen in his hand, he began to wallow in blots, and to daub himself with ink up to the very roots of his hair how, if he did by accident form a letter properly, he immediately smeared it out again with his arm in his preparations to make another how, at every fresh mistake, there was a fresh burst of merriment from the child and louder and not less hearty laugh from poor Kit himself and how there was all the way through, notwithstanding, a gentle wish on her part to teach, and an anxious desire on his to learn to relate all these particulars would no doubt occupy more space and time than they deserve.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment he was occupied with the following enigmatical proposition: If the number of steps in the distance between the cabinet-door and the arm-chair will divide by three without a remainder, then the new regimen will cure him; but if it does not so divide, then it will not.
-- The prosecutor, who entered with the judges, also hastily walked to his place near the window, his portfolio still under his arm, and waving his hand he began to read the papers in the case, utilizing every moment to prepare himself.
-- "It is impossible," Nekhludoff continued to repeat, although there was no doubt in his mind now that it was she, that same servant ward with whom he had been in love at one time--yes, in love, real love, and whom in a moment of mental fever he led astray, then abandoned, and to whom he never gave a second thought, because the recollection of it was too painful, revealed too manifestly that he, who prided himself of his good breeding, not only did not treat her decently, but basely deceived her.
-- There was something so unusual in the expression of her face--something so terrible and piteous in the meaning of her words, in that smile, that quick glance which she cast over the court-room--that the justiciary hung his head, and for a moment there was perfect silence.
-- answered Maslova, glancing around her, frightened, and for a moment resting her eyes on Nekhludoff.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a moment he hesitated in the doorway, as if he had been dazzled by the light.
-- For a moment I suspected that my intellect had tricked me.
-- A moment before, as it seemed, it had stood at a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half-past three!
-- The night came like the turning out of a lamp, and in another moment came tomorrow.
-- In a moment I was wet to the skin.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room.
-- For a few minutes all went on well, and she was just saying, 'I really shall do it this time ' when the path gave a sudden twist and shook itself (as she described it afterwards), and the next moment she found herself actually walking in at the door.
-- She did not wait for Alice to curtsey this time, but walked on quickly to the next peg, where she turned for a moment to say 'good-bye,' and then hurried on to the last.
-- In a moment everybody was holding out a ticket: they were about the same size as the people, and quite seemed to fill the carriage.
-- In another moment she felt the carriage rise straight up into the air, and in her fright she caught at the thing nearest to her hand, which happened to be the Goat's beard.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had taken me aside one day and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my "weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg" and let him know the moment he appeared.
-- But by this time we had all long ceased to pay any particular notice to the song; it was new, that night, to nobody but Dr. Livesey, and on him I observed it did not produce an agreeable effect, for he looked up for a moment quite angrily before he went on with his talk to old Taylor, the gardener, on a new cure for the rheumatics.
-- The captain spun round on his heel and fronted us; all the brown had gone out of his face, and even his nose was blue; he had the look of a man who sees a ghost, or the evil one, or something worse, if anything can be; and upon my word, I felt sorry to see him all in a moment turn so old and sick.
-- I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise.
-- I slipped the bolt at once, and we stood and panted for a moment in the dark, alone in the house with the dead captain's body.
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