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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed therefore confident, that, instead of reason we were only possessed of some quality fitted to increase our natural vices; as the re-flection from a troubled stream returns the image of an ill shapen body, not only larger but more distorted.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me.
-- 'As if, with my head in its present throbbing state, you couldn't go and look at the shells and minerals and things provided for you, instead of circuses!'
-- That there was any Fancy in them demanding to be brought into healthy existence instead of struggling on in convulsions?
-- They cared so little for plain Fact, these people, and were in that advanced state of degeneracy on the subject, that instead of being impressed by the speaker's strong common sense, they took it in extraordinary dudgeon.
-- They took De Foe to their bosoms, instead of Euclid, and seemed to be on the whole more comforted by Goldsmith than by Cocker.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every farmer, every laborer, every fisherman can both read and write--and we think that books instead of being locked up in cupboards, far from the s ight of students, should be distributed as widely as possible.
-- Instead of a worthy and learned scholar, he found a dull ill-mannered peasant.
-- "At the approach of an eruption these spouts of vapor redouble their activity--to disappear altogether during the period of volcanic eruption; for the elastic fluids, no longer having the necessary tension, seek refuge in the interior of the crater, instead of escaping through the fissures of the earth.
-- The tunnel, moreover, instead of going down into the bowels of the earth, became absolutely horizontal.
-- Instead of the rudimentary trilobites, I perceived the remains of a more perfect order.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time went on as the clock does, half past eight instead of half past seven.
-- Aeons of acquiescence in race destiny, instead of our indi-vidual resistance.
-- It's just an inter-change of sensations instead of ideas, so why not?'
-- 'It's an amusing idea, Charlie,' said Dukes, 'that sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
-- Instead of men kissing you, and touching you with their bodies, they revealed their minds to you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be more creditable to you, I think, to let other people allong and marshong about their lawful business, instead of shutting 'em up in quarantine!'
-- Why, if it had been a smothering instead of a wedding,' Mrs Flintwinch cast about in her mind with great pains for this form of expression, 'I couldn't have said a word upon it, against them two clever ones.'
-- Little MotherThe morning light was in no hurry to climb the prison wall and look in at the Snuggery windows; and when it did come, it would have been more welcome if it had come alone, instead of bringing a rush of rain with it.
-- returned Clennam, upon whom this impression was so efficiently made by a mere gleam of the polished head that he spoke the ship instead of the Tug.
-- But appearing to be incensed by imaginary contradiction, or other ill-usage, Mr F.'s Aunt, instead of relapsing into silence, made the following additional proclamation:'I hate a fool!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else,' said Jo, thinking that keep-ing her temper at home was a much harder task than facing a rebel or two down South.
-- 'I hate my name, too, so sentimental!I wish every one would say Jo instead of Josephine.
-- 'If Marmee shook her fist instead of kissing her hand to us, it would serve us right, for more ungrateful wretches than we are were never seen,' cried Jo, taking a remorseful satisfaction in the snowy walk and bitter wind.
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