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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed with a de-mon, instead of keeping up it, made an opposite turn, and plunged headlong down hill to the left.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fred would fly into a passion, and there'd be a quarrel, and things would be worse instead of better.
-- He used gestures instead of adjectives, and he halted.
-- Now something occurred to him that he had not told me before; now he discussed what he ought to have said instead of what he did say; then he lamented his blindness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As if it had been at that instant relieved of a new part of its weight, it mounted to a height of 1,500 feet, and here it met a current of wind, which instead of taking it directly to the coast, carried it in a nearly parallel direction.
-- They both walked to the foot of the enormous wall over the beach, far from which the tide had now retreated; but instead of going towards the north, they went southward.
-- cried the sailor; "these will do instead of eggs!"
-- Towards twelve o'clock, Pencroft having asked the engineer if they could now remove him, Harding, instead of replying, and by an effort which exhibited the most energetic will, got up.
-- "I am rubbing," replied Herbert, laughing, "but I don't pretend to do anything else but warm myself instead of shivering, and soon I shall be as hot as you are, my good Pencroft!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instead of pursuing the theme he had in his mind, Quilp folded his arms again, and looked at her more sternly than before, while she averted her eyes and kept them on the ground.
-- As the knocking, however, instead of accommodating itself to his lazy state, increased in vigour and became more importunate, as if in earnest remonstrance against his falling asleep again, now that he had once opened his eyes, Daniel Quilp began by degrees to comprehend the possibility of there being somebody at the door; and thus he gradually came to recollect that it was Friday morning, and he had ordered Mrs Quilp to be in waiting upon him at an early hour.
-- He was only a soft-hearted grateful fellow, and had nothing genteel or polite about him; consequently, instead of going home again, in his grief, to kick the children and abuse his mother (for, when your finely strung people are out of sorts, they must have everybody else unhappy likewise), he turned his thoughts to the vulgar expedient of making them more comfortable if he could.
-- However, he did nothing of the kind, but instead thereof assisted a stout servant girl in turning the contents of the cauldron into a large tureen; a proceeding which the dogs, proof against various hot splashes which fell upon their noses, watched with terrible eagerness.
-- 'Instead of which,' pursued Mr Vuffin, 'if you was to advertise Shakspeare played entirely by wooden legs, it's my belief you wouldn't draw a sixpence.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In reality, instead of making notes, he merely drew lines across his notes, having seen prosecutors and attorneys, after an adroit question, making memoranda of questions which were to crush their opponents.
-- On moonlit nights he seldom slept, because of the immense joy of life that pervaded him, and instead of sleeping, he sometimes rambled in the garden till daylight, absorbed in his thoughts and phantasies.
-- There was no wagon or sleigh road to the church, so Nekhludoff gave command, as he would in his own house, to have a horse saddled, and, instead of going to bed, donned a brilliant uniform and tight knee-breeches, threw on his military coat, and, mounting the snorting and constantly neighing, heavy stallion, he drove off to the church in the dark, over pools and snow mounds.
-- One of the beggars, with a red, cicatrized slough instead of a nose, approached Katiousha.
-- When he smiled she smiled also--she smiled as if only in submission to him, but in her soul, instead of a smile, there was terror.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
-- Further, I threw a scrap of paper into the throat of one, and, instead of fluttering slowly down, it was at once sucked swiftly out of sight.
-- Instead were these frail creatures who had forgotten their high ancestry, and the white Things of which I went in terror.
-- "I awakened Weena, and we went down into the wood, now green and pleasant instead of black and forbidding.
-- "Within the big valves of the door which were open and broken we found, instead of the customary hall, a long gallery lit by many side windows.
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