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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And I hope he won't spare me the ‘cat-o-nine-tails' if I don't do properly," said Robert.
-- If there should be water enough in the river, they are to wait on the banks till their companions reach them; but should it be dried up, they will hasten back and spare them a useless journey."
-- It would spare them several hours' suffering and anxiety."
-- Glenarvan wished to spare the ladies the horrible spectacle at Camden Bridge.
-- Glenarvan was aware that by this mode of procedure, he and his companions would spare themselves needless humiliation.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Perhaps you will spare an hour that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to my sister.'
-- There have been decorators and furnishers up from Plymouth, and it is evident that our friend has large ideas, and means to spare no pains or ex-pense to restore the grandeur of his family.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh general, spare Ferdishenko!'
-- Deal with them promptly, prince, and don't spare them!I am sick of hearing about the affair, and many a quarrel I have had in your cause.
-- 'It's only for mother's sake that I spare him,' said Gania, tragically.
-- I am ready to spare him, however, even now; but solely out of respect for yourself, Varvara Ar-dalionovna.
-- You imagined that you were doing an heroic action!How could you spare any love for him, when you love your own van-ity to such an extent?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us not spare a single one of them not even the child unborn and in its mother's womb; let not a man of them be left alive, but let all in Ilius perish, unheeded and forgotten.'
-- If the gods spare me to return home, Peleus will find me a wife; there are Achaean women in Hellas and Phthia, daughters of kings that have cities under them; of these I can take whom I will and marry her.
-- About the other city there lay encamped two hosts in gleaming armour, and they were divided whether to sack it, or to spare it and accept the half of what it contained.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Reaching the number, he hurried up the steps and did not spare the bell in waking the servant.
-- She put most of her spare money in clothes, which, after all, was not an astonishing amount.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they tucked the old man into a beauti- ful room, which was the spare room, and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stan-chion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time; and towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler, and rolled off the porch and broke his left arm in two places, and was most froze to death when somebody found him after sun-up.
-- And when they come to look at that spare room they had to take soundings before they could navigate it.
-- We can spare it.'
-- 'Oh, shucks, yes, we can SPARE it.
-- Chapter XXVI ELL, when they was all gone the king he asks Mary WJane how they was off for spare rooms, and she said she had one spare room, which would do for Uncle William, and she'd give her own room to Uncle Harvey, which was a little bigger, and she would turn into the room with her sisters and sleep on a cot; and up garret was a little cubby, with a pallet in it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I deserve it!But spare my poor old father."
-- "I am going to spare both the father and the son.
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