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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.
-- Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain and duplicate ship.
-- At length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal of the ship's riggers, and after the Pequod had been hauled out from the wharf, and after the ever-thoughtful Charity had come off in a whale-boat, with her last gift a night-cap for Stubb, the second mate, her brother-in-law, and a spare Bible for the steward after all this, the two Captains, Peleg and Bildad, issued from the cabin, and turning to the chief mate, Peleg said:"Now, Mr. Starbuck, are you sure everything is right?
-- Mr. Starbuck, mind that cooper don't waste the spare staves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all.
-- 'And please, sir, missis wants to know whether Mr. Bumble can spare time to step up there, directly, and flog him--'cause master's out.'
-- Don't spare him, Bumble.'
-- Then, falling upon his knees, he prayed Heaven to spare him from such deeds; and rather to will that he should die at once, than be reserved for crimes, so fearful and appalling.
-- 'Harry,' said Mrs. Maylie, 'it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But, my dear, your father cannot spare the horses, I am sure.
-- Mrs. Bennet sent them word that they could not possibly have the carriage before Tues-day; and in her postscript it was added, that if Mr. Bingley and his sister pressed them to stay longer, she could spare them very well.
-- Mrs. Bennet could certainly spare you for another fortnight.'
-- 'Oh!your father of course may spare you, if your mother can.
-- How could he spare half ten thousand pounds?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I expected every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship fell down, as I thought it did, in the trough or hollow of the sea, we should never rise more; in this agony of mind, I made many vows and resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again, I would go directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such mis-eries as these any more.
-- We had several spare yards, and two or three large spars of wood, and a spare topmast or two in the ship; I resolved to fall to work with these, and I flung as many of them overboard as I could manage for their weight, tying every one with a rope, that they might not drive away.
-- So I went to work, and with a carpenter's saw I cut a spare topmast into three lengths, and added them to my raft, with a great deal of labour and pains.
-- Besides these things, I took all the men's clothes that I could find, and a spare fore-topsail, a hammock, and some bedding; and with this I loaded my second raft, and brought them all safe on shore, to my very great comfort.
-- I presented my gun at her, but, as she did not understand it, she was perfectly uncon-cerned at it, nor did she offer to stir away; upon which I tossed her a bit of biscuit, though by the way, I was not very free of it, for my store was not great: however, I spared her a bit, I say, and she went to it, smelled at it, and ate it, and looked (as if pleased) for more; but I thanked her, and could spare no more: so she marched off.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three thousand pounds!he could spare so considerable a sum with little inconvenience.
-- It may be very inconvenient some years to spare a hundred, or even fifty pounds from our own expenses."
-- "I rather think you are mistaken, for when I was talking to her yesterday of getting a new grate for the spare bedchamber, she observed that there was no immediate hurry for it, as it was not likely that the room would be wanted for some time."
-- "Oh, Lord!I am sure your mother can spare you very well, and I DO beg you will favour me with your company, for I've quite set my heart upon it.
-- Mrs. Jennings repeated her assurance that Mrs. Dashwood could spare them perfectly well; and Elinor, who now understood her sister, and saw to what indifference to almost every thing else she was carried by her eagerness to be with Willoughby again, made no farther direct opposition to the plan, and merely referred it to her mother's decision, from whom however she scarcely expected to receive any support in her endeavour to prevent a visit, which she could not approve of for Marianne, and which on her own account she had particular reasons to avoid.
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