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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instead of reading the document seront prisonniers, read sont prisonniers, and the whole thing is clear."
-- Perhaps it is some other language you have been studying all this time instead of—"But Paganel would not allow him to proceed.
-- To start for India and arrive at Chili!To learn Spanish and talk Portuguese!Why, if I go on like this, some day I shall be throwing myself out of the window instead of my cigar!"
-- Moreover, it must have struck Thalcave that instead of being the guide he was guided; yet, with true Indian reserve, he maintained absolute silence.
-- "That's my opinion too," said the Major, "for if I am not mistaken, instead of being harmless, the Gauchos are formidable out-and-out bandits."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If that were so, and it seems most prob-able, only a man who had lost his wits would have run from the house instead of towards it.
-- 'I talked as if Dr. Watson were a resident instead of being merely a visitor,' said she.
-- 'But why a rendezvous in the garden instead of a visit to the house?'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THESE assured him that his exertion had produced an increase of good-will towards himself, and THESE gave Elinor hopes of its being farther augmented hereafter; but Mrs. Jennings, who knew nothing of all this, who knew only that the Colonel continued as grave as ever, and that she could neither prevail on him to make the offer himself, nor commission her to make it for him, began, at the end of two days, to think that, instead of Midsummer, they would not be married till Michaelmas, and by the end of a week that it would not be a match at all.
-- " Elinor could have given her immediate relief by suggesting the possibility of its being Miss Morton's mother, rather than her own, whom they were about to behold; but instead of doing that, she assured her, and with great sincerity, that she did pity her to the utter amazement of Lucy, who, though really uncomfortable herself, hoped at least to be an object of irrepressible envy to Elinor.
-- If you had only sent him to Westminster as well as myself, instead of sending him to Mr. Pratt's, all this would have been prevented.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So instead of complaining when she felt so good, she said: "I have the promise of something."
-- In this conversation she heard, instead of his words, the voices of the things which he represented.
-- Instead he found a woman whose youth and beauty attracted him.
-- "Then why don't you say so, and let the girl put away the things, instead of keeping her waiting all morning?"
-- She was especially gratified to find that her salary was now eighteen instead of twelve.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you'd killed a spider.
-- Then she got to talking about her husband, and about her rela- tions up the riv-er, and her relations down the river, and about how much better off they used to was, and how they didn't know but they'd made a mistake coming to our town, instead of let-ting well alone and so on and so on, till I was afeard I had made a mistake coming to her to find out what was going on in the town; but by and by she dropped on to pap and the murder, and then I was pretty willing to let her clatter right along.
-- THEY asked us considerable many questions; wanted to know what we covered up the raft that way for, and laid by in the daytime instead of running was Jim a runaway nigger?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But instead of giving it back, Pinocchio put it on his own head, which was half swallowed up in it.
-- But the Cricket, who was a wise old philosopher, instead of being offended at Pinocchio's impudence, continued in the same tone: "If you do not like going to school, why don't you at least learn a trade, so that you can earn an honest living?"
-- In the pan, instead of oil or butter, he poured a little water.
-- The yelling was of no use, for the Marionettes, instead of going on with their act, made twice as much racket as before, and, lifting up Pinocchio on their shoulders, carried him around the stage in triumph.
-- Instead of returning home, come with us."
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