withhold是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 拒绝给某事物; 抑制，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Achilles answered, 'Son of Atreus, king of men Agamemnon, you can give such gifts as you think proper, or you can withhold them: it is in your own hands.
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：
-- Among his actual auditors, however, it mere-ly gave him an additional claim to that respect which they never withhold from such as are believed to be the subjects of mental alienation.
-- Like their neighbors, they had fol- lowed Montcalm into the territories of the English crown, and were making heavy and serious inroads on the hunt- ing-grounds of the Mohawks; though they had seen fit, with the mysterious reserve so common among the natives, to withhold their assistance at the moment when it was most required.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, it was faintly depressing that the most dignified and valuable man in the parish should withhold his eyes, and that a girl like Liddy should talk about it.
-- She delayed the reply, but was too honest to withhold it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tried to stifle these sensa-tions; I thought that as I could not sympathize with him, I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to bestow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The judicious parent, having nothing to bestow or withhold but his blessing, had handsomely settled that dower upon them after a short struggle, and had informed Mr. Pocket that his wife was "a treasure for a Prince."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clennam could not withhold a smile, as the panting little steam-tug, so useful to that unwieldy ship, the Casby, waited on and watched him as if it were seeking an opportunity of running in and rifling him of all he wanted before he could resist its manoeuvres; though there was that in Mr Pancks's eagerness, too, which awakened many wondering speculations in his mind.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the private property of three confederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it seems, communicated it to Tashtego with Romish injunctions of secrecy, but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and revealed so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could not well withhold the rest.
-- Best, therefore, withhold any amazement at the strangely gallied whales before us, for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For such particulars, stated on such authority, Elinor could not withhold her credit; nor was she disposed to it, for the circumstance was in perfect unison with what she had heard and seen herself.
-- It was some minutes before she could go on with her letter, and the frequent bursts of grief which still obliged her, at intervals, to withhold her pen, were proofs enough of her feeling how more than probable it was that she was writing for the last time to Willoughby.
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