advance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 前进， 预付vi. 前进， 进展vt. 促进， 推进，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not advance a word of praise beyond what she knew to be thoroughly deserved by Mrs. Weston; but, undoubt-edly he could know very little of the matter.
-- She would have been too happy but for poor Harriet; but every blessing of her own seemed to involve and advance the sufferings of her friend, who must now be even excluded from Hartfield.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This venture, unaided and alone, into the paths of farming as master and not as man, with an advance of sheep not yet paid for, was a critical juncture with Gabriel Oak, and he recognised his position clearly.
-- Gabriel was about to advance and restore the missing article when an unexpected performance induced him to suspend the action for the present.
-- Seeing his advance take the form of an attitude threatening a possible enclosure, if not compression, of her person, she edged off round the bush.
-- Gabriel's farm had been stocked by a dealer on the strength of Oak's promising look and character who was receiving a percentage from the farmer till such time as the advance should be cleared off.
-- Gabriel, like his dog, was too good to be trustworthy, and he never made advance beyond this point.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- de Beauseant's rose-colored drawing-room he had made a three years' advance in a kind of law which is not a recognized study in Paris, although it is a sort of higher jurisprudence, and, when well understood, is a highroad to success of every kind.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For one thing, the Yankees had been stoutly repulsed in Septemberwhen they had tried to follow up their victories in Tennessee by an advance into Georgia.
-- "If need be, our army will die to the last man before they permit the Yankees to advance farther into Georgia,"snapped the doctor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the rest, he was a young gentleman in a gray suit (when not denuded for battle), with his elbows, knees, wrists, and heels considerably in advance of the rest of him as to development.
-- Equally in his stopping at the bars and attending to anxious whisperers,--always singly,--Wemmick with his post-office in an immovable state, looked at them while in conference, as if he were taking particular notice of the advance they had made, since last observed, towards coming out in full blow at their trial.
-- Do you advance with him?"
-- Before a week was out, I received a note from Wemmick, dated Walworth, stating that he hoped he had made some advance in that matter appertaining to our private and personal capacities, and that he would be glad if I could come and see him again upon it.
-- When I had begun to advance Herbert's prospects by stealth, I had been able to bear this with cheerful philosophy: he and his affianced, for their part, had naturally not been very anxious to introduce a third person into their interviews; and thus, although I was assured that I had risen in Clara's esteem, and although the young lady and I had long regularly interchanged messages and remembrances by Herbert, I had never seen her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here it was impossible for me to advance a step; for the stalks were so interwoven, that I could not creep through, and the beards of the fallen ears so strong and pointed, that they pierced through my clothes into my flesh.
-- The governor, at my request, gave the sign for Caesar and Brutus to advance towards us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, he had not gone the length of three streets, when he saw another of the shawled figures in advance of him, at which he looked so keenly that perhaps its mere shadow indistinctly reflected on the wet pavement if he could have seen it without the figure itself moving along from lamp to lamp, brightening and fading as it went would have been enough to tell him who was there.
-- With her dark eyes and her hook nose warily in advance of her, Mrs. Sparsit softly crushed her way through the thick undergrowth, so intent upon her object that she probably would have done no less, if the wood had been a wood of adders.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Wait a bit, until we advance farther.
-- However this might be, I once more took up my load, and boldly and resolutely followed Hans, who was now in advance of my uncle.
-- My uncle was scarcely able to conceal his impatience and dissatisfaction at the road continuing still to advance in a horizontal direction.
-- The darkness, dense and opaque a few yards in advance and in the rear, rendered it impossible to make out what was the length of the gallery.
-- No, my intention is to advance and continue our journey.
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