proceed是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 进行; 着手，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard her steps proceed to the pantry.
-- For, though it includes what I proceed to add, all the merit of what I proceed to add was Joe's.
-- It never did run out, however, but was brought to a premature end, as I proceed to relate.
-- His blue bag was slung over his shoulder, honest industry beamed in his eyes, a determination to proceed to Trabb's with cheerful briskness was indicated in his gait.
-- But, before I proceed to narrate it, and before I pass on to all the changes it involved, I must give one chapter to Estella.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- efore I proceed to give an account of my leaving this Bkingdom, it may be proper to inform the reader of a private intrigue which had been for two months forming against me.
-- These people are under continual disquietudes, never enjoying a minutes peace of mind; and their disturbances proceed from causes which very little affect the rest of mor-tals.
-- Among these the ladies choose their gallants: but the vexation is, that they act with too much ease and security; for the husband is always so rapt in speculation, that the mistress and lover may proceed to the greatest familiarities before his face, if he be but pro-vided with paper and implements, and without his flapper at his side.
-- My answer was, 'that I durst proceed no further in my re-lation, unless he would give me his word and honour that he would not be offended, and then I would tell him the wonders I had so often promised.'
-- The second disadvantage is, that my lawyer must proceed with great caution, or else he will be reprimanded by the judges, 315and abhorred by his brethren, as one that would lessen the practice of the law.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, if Mr. M'Choakumchild,' said the gentleman, 'will proceed to give his first lesson here, Mr. Gradgrind, I shall be happy, at your request, to observe his mode of procedure.'
-- If Mr. Sleary were taking the money, he would be sure to know her, and would proceed with discretion.
-- If he were not, he would be sure to see them inside; and, knowing what he had done with the fugitive, would proceed with discretion still.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I proceed with my narrative as I did before I commenced my daily notes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shall I proceed then?'
-- Mr Barnacle solemnly bent his head as who should say, 'I do not deny that it is a liberty; proceed to take another liberty, and let me know your business.'
-- Miss Rugg was a lady of a little property which she had acquired, together with much distinction in the neighbourhood, by having her heart severely lacerated and her feelings mangled by a middle-aged baker resident in the vicinity, against whom she had, by the agency of Mr Rugg, found it necessary to proceed at law to recover damages for a breach of promise of marriage.
-- Mrs General, replying to the envoy, as she set down her empty coffee-cup, that she was willing at once to proceed to Mr Dorrit's apartment, and spare him the trouble of coming to her (which, in his gallantry, he had proposed), the envoy threw open the door, and escorted Mrs General to the presence.
-- the Defaulter would proceed with a shake of the head.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
-- I might proceed with several more examples, one way or another known to me, of the great power and malice at times of the sperm whale.
-- Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.
-- When in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and weary toil, is brought alongside late at night, it is not, as a general thing at least, customary to proceed at once to the business of cutting him in.
-- For, before we proceed further, it must be said that the monkey-rope was fast at both ends; fast to Queequeg's broad canvas belt, and fast to my narrow leather one.
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