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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For all they cared it might have been me, instead of my effigy, which these rascals burned at the stake.
-- Instead we were faced by an object so strange and so unexpected that we stood for a moment staring at it in amazement.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Forty thousand, then forty thousand roubles instead of eighteen!Ptitsin and another have promised to find me forty thousand roubles by seven o'clock tonight.
-- 'H'm!and instead of a bad action, your excellency has detailed one of your noblest deeds,' said Ferdishenko.
-- An old woman who had been robbed of five hundred roubles, her all, by some rogue of a usurer, besought him to take up her case, instead of which he defended the usurer himself, a Jew named Zeidler, because this Jew promised to give him fifty roubles芒聙娄.'
-- 'At all events, you've disbanded your troop and you are living in your own house instead of being fast and loose about the place; that's all very good.
-- Instead he had fled from the station, and knew nothing more, until he found himself gazing into the window of a cutler's shop, and wondering if a knife with a staghorn handle would cost more than sixty copecks.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have known men, whose numbers, cour-age, and self-reliance have saved their people in spite of Jove, whereas in this case he would much rather give victory to us than to the Danaans, if you would only fight instead of being so terribly afraid.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instead of "seeing 'bout it," however, Hall on his return was severely rated by his wife on the length of time he had spent in Sidderbridge, and his mild inquiries were answered snappishly and in a manner not to the point.
-- He's a kind of half-breed, and the colour's come off patchy instead of mixing.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only the asses won't see it!Why am I here now, an outcast from civilisation, instead of being a happy man enjoying all the pleasures of London?
-- But now it was night, and all the miasmatic ravine about me was black; and beyond, instead of a green, sunlit slope, I saw a red fire, before which hunched, grotesque figures moved to and fro.
-- My memory of the Law, of the two dead sailors, of the ambuscades of the darkness, of the body in the canebrake, haunted me; and, unnatural as it seems, with my return to mankind came, instead of that confidence and sympathy I had expected, a strange en-hancement of the uncertainty and dread I had experienced during my stay upon the island.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor do I think that ye will sit here any longer, lolling out your tongues as though ye were somebodies, instead of dogs whom I drive out thus!Go!'
-- Put dead bats on my head!Give me black bones to eat!Roll me into the hives of the wild bees that I may be stung to death, and bury me with the Hyaena, for I am most misera-ble of bears!Arulala!Wahooa!O Mowgli, Mowgli!Why did I not warn thee against the Monkey-Folk instead of break-ing thy head?
-- The monkeys dragged him into the Cold Lairs late in the afternoon, and instead of going to sleep, as Mowgli would have done after a long journey, they joined hands and danced about and sang their foolish songs.
-- 'I've often thought we should be much happier if we hauled out at Otter Island instead of this crowded place,' said Matkah.
-- There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cun-ningly hidden, he found twenty-five eggs, about the size of a bantam's eggs, but with whitish skin instead of shell.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The name has appeared to find favor, and all things considered, it may possibly be quite as well to let it stand, instead of going back to the House of Hanover for the appellation of our finest sheet of water.
-- It would seem that the domestics had been previously instructed; for, instead of penetrating the thicket, they fol-lowed the route of the column; a measure which Heyward stated had been dictated by the sagacity of their guide, in order to diminish the marks of their trail, if, haply, the Ca-nadian savages should be lurking so far in advance of their army.
-- It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen, instead of tell-ing them in their villages, where the lie can be given to the face of a cowardly boaster, and the brave soldier can call on his comrades to witness for the truth of his words.
-- William Henry, man!if you are friends to the king and have business with the army, your way would be to follow the river down to Edward, and lay the matter before Webb, who tarries there, instead of pushing into the defiles, and driv-ing this saucy Frenchman back across Champlain, into his den again.'
-- 'The Sixtieth!you can tell me little of the Royal Ameri-cans that I don't know, though I do wear a hunting-shirt instead of a scarlet jacket.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he approached the stream, his heart began to thump he summoned up, however, all his resolution, gave his horse half a score of kicks in the ribs, and attempted to dash briskly across the bridge; but instead of starting forward, the perverse old animal made a lateral movement, and ran broadside against the fence.
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