spare是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 空闲的; 剩余的; n. 备用件，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：
-- All its people were poor, and many of them were sitting at their doors, shredding spare onions and the like for supper, while many were at the fountain, washing leaves, and grasses, and any such small yieldings of the earth that could be eaten.
-- At the steepest point of the hill there was a little burial-ground, with a Cross and a new large figure of Our Saviour on it; it was a poor figure in wood, done by some inexperi-enced rustic carver, but he had studied the figure from the life his own life, maybe for it was dreadfully spare and thin.
-- If you should then be dissatisfied with it, you can but test its soundness for yourself; if, on the other hand, you should be satisfied with it, and it should be what it now is, it may spare all sides what is best spared.
-- 'Spare no detail.'
-- The bronze face, the shaggy black hair and beard, the coarse woollen red cap, the rough medley dress of home-spun stuff and hairy skins of beasts, the powerful frame attenuated by spare living, and the sullen and desper-ate compression of the lips in sleep, inspired the mender of roads with awe.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Spare us your elegiac tones,' said the Parrot giggling.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked straight into his face, as thought imploring him to spare her, and gave her hand.
-- But he had promised Bryansky to come, and so he decided to drive on, telling the coachman not to spare the horses.
-- I always knew it and always saw it, though I tried to deceive myself to spare her," he said to himself.
-- "Can't he spare time to see me?"
-- Spare me!However hard it is for you, believe me, it is more terrible for me."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he doesn't spare the money on the way, either: he has offered a large reward to the engineer of the Mongolia if he gets us to Bombay well in advance of time."
-- "Yes; with eleven hours to spare before the steamer left."
-- It was necessary to have dry wood to keep the steam up to the adequate pressure, and on that day the poop, cabins, bunks, and the spare deck were sacrificed.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 18 Dr. Woestijne of Vanderheide's Grove acted in spare time as Superintendent of Health for Crynssen County, but the office was not well paid and it did not greatly interest him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can imagine all she went through!To leave her situation at once was impos-sible not only on account of the money debt, but also to spare the feelings of Marfa Petrovna, whose suspicions would have been aroused: and then Dounia would have been the cause of a rupture in the family.
-- You are perhaps in a hurry, but please, be so kind, spare me two minutes,' and he drew up a chair for her.
-- He was dressed like a workman and was of medium height, very young, slim, his hair cut in round crop, with thin spare features.
-- It's spirited of you, it proves you wanted to spare Rodion Romanovitch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Haven't youheard her say over and over again, that on this account she wishesto spare me a great deal of trouble, which she thinks I am notsuited for, and which I really don't know myself that I am suitedfor; and isn't she up early and late, and going to and frocontinually- and doesn't she do all sorts of things, and grope intoall sorts of places, coal-holes and pantries and I don't know where,that can't be very agreeable- and do you mean to insinuate thatthere is not a sort of devotion in that?'
-- I don't remember that anyindividual object had a bare, pinched, spare look; but I doremember that the whole place had.
-- I spend a gooddeal of my own spare time in walking up and down to meet her.
-- Everything was very good; we did not spare the wine; and heexerted himself so brilliantly to make the thing pass off well, thatthere was no pause in our festivity.
-- I could not give her pain by asking what it was, for Iknew that she withheld it from me to spare her father.
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