timely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 及时的, 适时的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The allusion served as a timely reminder to Darnay that this disagreeable companion had, of his own free will, as-sisted him in the strait of the day.
-- He has not received the notice yet, but I know that he will presently be summoned for to-morrow, and removed to the Con-ciergerie; I have timely information.
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：
-- While the culinary process was in hand, curiosity induced him to inquire into the circumstances which had led to their timely and unexpected rescue: 'How is it that we see you so soon, my generous friend,' he asked, 'and without aid from the garrison of Edward?'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the theory of Crynssen County that it was quite all right for a young professional man to take a timely drink providing he kept it secret and made up for it by yearning over the clergy of the neighborhood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A timely observation of the sense of power that there was in hisface, did more to bring back to my remembrance the entreaty ofAgnes, in its full force, than any effort I could have made.
-- This momentous pocket-book was a timely reminder to him ofanother transaction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beset by these opposing considerations, Mrs Jiniwin admitted the powers of insinuation, but denied the right to govern, and with a timely compliment to the stout lady brought back the discussion to the point from which it had strayed.
-- Mr List's squint assumed a portentous character, which seemed to threaten a prolongation of this controversy, when his companion, who had been looking sharply at the old man, put a timely stop to it.
-- Nothing but the respect and obligation I owe to you, sir 'As it was plain that Sampson was bent on a complimentary harangue, unless he received a timely interruption, Mr Quilp politely tapped him on the crown of his head with the little saucepan, and requested that he would be so obliging as to hold his peace.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Leaving her instructions with Gabriel and Maryann, that they were to see everything carefully locked up for the night, she went out of the house just at the close of a timely thunder-shower, which had refined the air, and daintily bathed the coat of the land, though all beneath was dry as ever.
-- Boldwood had already twitched the handkerchief, and the gun exploded a second time, sending its contents, by a timely blow from Samway, into the beam which crossed the ceiling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And and I would suggest to you, that that if you would kindly meet me in a timely endeavour to leave her to her better nature for a while and to encourage it to develop itself by tenderness and consideration it it would be the better for the happiness of all of us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His neck was so twisted that the knotted ends of his white cravat usually dangled under one ear; his natural acerbity and energy, always contending with a second nature of habitual repression, gave his features a swollen and suffused look; and altogether, he had a weird appearance of having hanged himself at one time or other, and of having gone about ever since, halter and all, exactly as some timely hand had cut him down.
-- It was a timely chance, favourable to his wish of observing her face and manner when no one else was by.
-- So fixed was his figure, that it would have been matter of some difficulty to bend him sufficiently to get him in the carriage-door, if he had not received the timely assistance of a maternal pull from within.
-- But for the timely return of Flora, to find him in this difficult situation, further consequences might have ensued.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By her next speech, Jo deprived herself of several years of pleasure, and received a timely lesson in the art of holding her tongue.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "At sunrise he summoned all hands; and separating those who had rebelled from those who had taken no part in the mutiny, he told the former that he had a good mind to flog them all round thought, upon the whole, he would do so he ought to justice demanded it; but for the present, considering their timely surrender, he would let them go with a reprimand, which he accordingly administered in the vernacular.
-- Now, by reason of this timely spinning round the boat upon its axis, its bow, by anticipation, was made to face the whale's head while yet under water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fagin laid great stress on the fact of his having taken Oliver in, and cherished him, when, without his timely aid, he might have perished with hunger; and he related the dismal and affecting history of a young lad whom, in his philanthropy, he had succoured under parallel circumstances, but who, proving unworthy of his confidence and evincing a desire to communicate with the police, had unfortunately come to be hanged at the Old Bailey one morning.
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