instead是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 代替， 顶替，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the good Saint Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's 12 Sons and Loversnose with a touch of such weather as that, instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose.
-- Singularly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it were at a distance.
-- But, if you had judged from the numbers of people on their way to friendly gatherings, you might have thought that no one was at home to give them welcome when they got there, instead of every house expecting company, and piling up its fires half-chimney high.
-- If he had been, he'd have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death, instead of lying gasping out his last there, alone by himself.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why don't you go and fetch things, instead of standing there staring at me?
-- Thus, Tellson's, in its day, like greater places of busi-ness, its contemporaries, had taken so many lives, that, if the heads laid low before it had been ranged on Temple Bar instead of being privately disposed of, they would probably have excluded what little light the ground floor had, in a rather significant manner.
-- If I had had any but a unnat'ral wife, and this poor boy had had any but a unnat'ral moth-er, I might have made some money last week instead of being counter-prayed and countermined and religiously circumwented into the worst of luck.
-- As a consequence, country airs circu-lated in Soho with vigorous freedom, instead of languishing into the parish like stray paupers without a settlement; and there was many a good south wall, not far off, on which the peaches ripened in their season.
-- By degrees, as they could bear no more, they dropped off one by one, and lights twinkled in little casements; which lights, as the case-ments darkened, and more stars came out, seemed to have shot up into the sky instead of having been extinguished.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What Happened to the Councillor t was late; Councillor Knap, deeply occupied with the Itimes of King Hans, intended to go home, and malicious Fate managed matters so that his feet, instead of finding their way to his own galoshes, slipped into those of For-tune.
-- Do I instead of mounting only sink?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instead of being hurt, denying, defending himself, begging forgiveness, instead of remaining indifferent even--anything would have been better than what he did do--his face utterly involuntarily (reflex spinal action, reflected Stepan Arkadyevitch, who was fond of physiology)--utterly involuntarily assumed its habitual, good-humored, and therefore idiotic smile.
-- Oblonsky had more than once experienced this extreme sense of aloofness, instead of intimacy, coming on after dinner, and he knew what to do in such cases.
-- What's so awful is that all at once my heart's turned, and instead of love and tenderness, I have nothing but hatred for him; yes, hatred.
-- And I, instead of going to seek him out, went out to dinner, and came here."
-- Do you know why I'm going today instead of tomorrow?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had brought him shaving-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty-six; and he was awaiting his successor, who was due at the house between eleven and half-past.
-- But this delay, as it was foreseen, did not affect Phileas Fogg's programme; besides, the Mongolia, instead of reaching Aden on the morning of the 15th, when she was due, arrived there on the evening of the 14th, a gain of fifteen hours.
-- Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so as to gain the American continent more surely; and there, after throwing the police off his track, he would quietly enjoy himself with the fortune stolen from the bank.
-- But, instead of forming a pyramid by mounting each other's shoulders, the artists were to group themselves on top of the noses.
-- Passepartout was ignorant that, if the face of his watch had been divided into twenty-four hours, like the Italian clocks, he would have no reason for exultation; for the hands of his watch would then, instead of as now indicating nine o'clock in the morning, indicate nine o'clock in the evening, that is, the twenty-first hour after midnight precisely the difference between London time and that of the one hundred and eightieth meridian.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ordinarily Encore would have suggested, with amiable malice, that Gottlieb was a "crapehanger" who wasted time destroying the theories of other men instead of making new ones of his own.
-- I'd like awfully to take bacteriology this fall instead of next year.
-- So many of the English grad students just want to make money teaching, instead of enjoying scholarship the way I do."
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