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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And fate served our Canadian so well that, instead of one whale, he harpooned two with a double blow, striking one straight to the heart, and catching the other after some minutes' pursuit.
-- The greater number, instead of leaves, shoot forth blades of capricious shapes, comprised within a scale of colours pink, carmine, green, olive, fawn, and brown.
-- But instead I felt an insurmountable desire to sleep, which happens to all divers.
-- Indeed, I thought that this halt would mark the termination of our walk; but I was mistaken, for, instead of returning to the Nautilus, Captain Nemo continued his bold excursion.
-- "Yes, Conseil; but, instead of being rolled from right to left, this olive turns from left to right."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He noticed instead how her hair looped in slack, slovenly strands over her rather beautiful ears, which were not quite clean.
-- "Sounds as if you were going to be executed instead of married.
-- "Oh one would feel things instead of merely looking at them.
-- I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them.
-- "Well do you mind having it instead of the crabs?
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights.
-- I muttered, knocking my knuckles through the glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch; instead of which, my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice cold hand!The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in let me in!'
-- The mistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of reform by trying to raise her self respect with fine clothes and flattery, which she took readily; so that, instead of a wild, hatless little savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless, there 'lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person, with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit, which she was obliged to hold up with both hands that she might sail in.
-- He might well skulk behind the settle, on beholding such a bright, graceful damsel enter the house, instead of a rough headed counterpart of himself, as he expected.
-- Do you mark those two lines between your eyes; and those thick brows, that, instead of rising arched, sink in the middle; and that couple of black fiends, so deeply buried, who never open their windows boldly, but lurk glinting under them, like devil's spies?
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, instead of whispering, he simply shouted at the top of his voice 'They're at it again!'
-- At this moment she heard a hoarse laugh at her side, and turned to see what was the matter with the White Queen; but, instead of the Queen, there was the leg of mutton sitting in the chair.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doctor looked it all over, as if his fingers were itching to open it; but instead of doing that, he put it quietly in the pocket of his coat.
-- There was a date at one end of the line and at the other a sum of money, as in common account-books, but instead of explanatory writing, only a varying number of crosses between the two.
-- They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.
-- Anderson was in command of my boat, and instead of keeping the crew in order, he grumbled as loud as the worst.
-- But the worst of it was that with the course I now held we turned our broadside instead of our stern to the Hispaniola and offered a target like a barn door.
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