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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Churchill rules at Enscombe, and is a very odd-tempered woman; and his coming now, depends 148 Emmaupon her being willing to spare him.'
-- He wished the road might be- impassable, that he might be able to keep them all at Randalls; and with the utmost good-will was sure that accommoda-tion might be found for every body, calling on his wife to agree with him, that with a little contrivance, every body might be lodged, which she hardly knew how to do, from the consciousness of there being but two spare rooms in the house.
-- He wishes exceed-ingly to come; but his uncle and aunt will not spare him.'
-- She followed another carriage to Mr. Cole's door; and was pleased to see that it was Mr. Knightley's; for Mr. Knight-ley keeping no horses, having little spare money and a great deal of health, activity, and independence, was too apt, in Emma's opinion, to get about as he could, and not use his carriage so often as became the owner of Donwell Abbey.
-- Not that James ever complains; but it is right to spare our horses when we can.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By one of those whimsical coincidences in which Nature, like a busy mother, seems to spare a moment from her unremitting labours to turn and make her children smile, the girl now dropped the cloak, and forth tumbled ropes of black hair over a red jacket.
-- Lending him what little clothing they could spare among them as a slight protection against the rapidly cooling air, they agreed to land him in the morning; and without further delay, for it was growing late, they made again towards the roadstead where their vessel lay.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that time one of the rooms was tenanted by a law student, a young man from the neighborhood of Angouleme, one of a large family who pinched and starved themselves to spare twelve hundred francs a year for him.
-- The whole property brought in about three thousand francs; and though the amount varied with the season (as must always be the case in a vine-growing district), they were obliged to spare an unvarying twelve hundred francs out of their income for him.
-- He said to me quite coolly, without putting himself in a passion, that we might spare ourselves the trouble of going there; that the young lady (he would not call her his daughter) was injuring her cause by importuning him (_importuning!_ once a year, the wretch!
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw his mistress once before the destined ceremony; but she was bathed in tears, and throwing her-self at his feet, entreated him to spare her, confessing at the same time that she loved another, but that he was poor, and that her father would never consent to the union.
-- Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!Yet I ask you not to spare me; listen to me, and then, if you can, and if you will, de-stroy the work of your hands.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each morning, rain or shine, Nellie was saddled and walked upand down in front of the house, waiting for the time when Mrs. Tarleton could spare an hour away from her duties.
-- ButFairhill was a difficult plantation to manage and spare time hard to get, and more often than not Nellie walked up anddown riderless hour after hour, while Beatrice Tarleton went through the day with the skirt of her habit absently loopedover her arm and six inches of shining boot showing below it.
-- There was no sign of that chubby pink-cheeked lady, but asScarlett searched anxiously a spare old negro, with grizzled kinks and an air of dignified authority, came toward herthrough the mud, his hat in his hand.
-- She would never have arrived at this eminence so early in life had not the exigenciesof war and the demands of the commissary department on Tara made it impossible for Ellen to spare Mammy or Dilceyor even Rosa or Teena.
-- He was tall and gaunt and wore apointed beard of iron gray, and his clothes hung on his spare figure as though blown there by a hurricane.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, I saw the damp lying on the bare hedges and spare grass, like a coarser sort of spiders' webs; hanging itself from twig to twig and blade to blade.
-- We walked to town, my sister leading the way in a very large beaver bonnet, and carrying a basket like the Great Seal of England in plaited Straw, a pair of pattens, a spare shawl, and an umbrella, though it was a fine bright day.
-- This is our sitting-room,--just such chairs and tables and carpet and so forth, you see, as they could spare from home.
-- It was fine summer weather again, and, as I walked along, the times when I was a little helpless creature, and my sister did not spare me, vividly returned.
-- Miss Havisham, if you would spare the money to do my friend Herbert a lasting service in life, but which from the nature of the case must be done without his knowledge, I could show you how."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the servant led her away; but his heart melted when Snowdrop begged him to spare her life, and he said, 'I will not hurt you, thou pretty child.'
-- 'You may smoke three,' answered the king, 'but do not imagine that I will spare your life.'
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