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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.
-- At other times, I thought, What if the young man who was with so much difficulty restrained from imbruing his hands in me should yield to a constitutional impatience, or should mistake the time, and should think himself accredited to my heart and liver to-night, instead of to-morrow!If ever anybody's hair stood on end with terror, mine must have done so then.
-- The mist was heavier yet when I got out upon the marshes, so that instead of my running at everything, everything seemed to run at me.
-- So, we had our slices served out, as if we were two thousand troops on a forced march instead of a man and boy at home; and we took gulps of milk and water, with apologetic countenances, from a jug on the dresser.
-- "Whether common ones as to callings and earnings," pursued Joe, reflectively, "mightn't be the better of continuing for to keep company with common ones, instead of going out to play with oncommon ones,--which reminds me to hope that there were a flag, perhaps?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen, and standing at the head of her bed.
-- 'Because, instead of doing any good, she does nothing but tease me all day long.'
-- The king's son ascended, but instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, he found the en-chantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks.
-- Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through, instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pour-ing over her.
-- The thought pleased the good cobbler very much; and one evening, when all the things were ready, they laid them on the table, instead of the work that they used to cut out, and then went and hid themselves, to watch what the little elves would do.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consid-er, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corrup-tions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my in- tentions.
-- To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country: we never parted while I was there; I called her my Glumdalclitch, or little nurse; and should be guilty of great ingratitude, if I omitted this honourable mention of her care and affection towards me, which I heartily wish it lay in my power to requite as she deserves, instead of being the innocent, but unhappy instrument of her disgrace, as I have too much reason to fear.
-- By all which, instead of being discouraged, they are fifty times more violently bent upon prosecuting their schemes, driven equally on by hope and despair: that as for himself, being not of an enterpris-ing spirit, he was content to go on in the old forms, to live in the houses his ancestors had built, and act as they did, in every part of life, without innovation: that some few other persons of quality and gentry had done the same, but were looked on with an eye of contempt and ill-will, as enemies to art, ignorant, and ill common-wealth's men, preferring their own ease and sloth before the general improvement of their country.'
-- For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been introduced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimeri-34 Frankensteincal, while those of the former were real and practical, under such circumstances I should certainly have thrown Agrip-pa aside and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies.
-- He knew that I could not have a more kind and at-tentive nurse than himself; and, firm in the hope he felt of my recovery, he did not doubt that, instead of doing harm, he performed the kindest action that he could towards them.
-- This whole winter, instead of being spent in study, as you promised yourself, has been consumed in my sick room.
-- Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentle-ness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds.
-- Now all was blasted; instead of that serenity of conscience which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-satisfaction, and from thence to gather promise of new hopes, I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Gerald caught herclimbing a fence instead of walking half a mile to a gate, or sitting too late on the front steps with a beau, he castigatedher personally and with vehemence, but he did not mention the fact to Ellen or to Mammy.
-- Then, brightening, in anticipation of one of his practical jokes: "Come daughter, let's go tell Pork that instead ofbuying Dilcey, I've sold him to John Wilkes."
-- Gradually the plantation widened out, as Gerald bought more acres lying near him, and in time the whitehouse became a reality instead of a dream.
-- The heartbreak and selflessness that she would have dedicated to the Church were devoted instead to theservice of her child, her household and the man who had taken her out of Savannah and its memories and had neverasked any questions.
-- To acasual observer it would seem that years had passed since the Tarletons had seen the O'Haras, instead of only twodays.
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