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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was also Tros the son of Alastor he came up to Achilles and clasped his knees in the hope that he would spare him and not kill him but let him go, be-cause they were both of the same age.
-- Then he said, 'Achilles, have mer-cy upon me and spare me, for I am your suppliant.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kemp got up, looked about him, and fetched a glass from his spare room.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We can't send him over there, and we can't spare the time to build him a new shanty; and we certainly can't take him into our confidence just yet.'
-- 'I can't spare the time yet,' said Moreau.
-- Of all vile ' 'Never mind that,' said Moreau; 'at least, spare me those youthful horrors.
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：
-- 'Your fathers came from the setting sun, crossed the big river*, fought the people of the country, and took the land; and mine came from the red sky of the morning, over the salt lake, and did their work much after the fashion that had been set them by yours; then let God judge the matter be-tween us, and friends spare their words!'
-- shouted the scout, who did not spare his open laughter, though instantly checking the dangerous sounds he indulged his merriment at less risk of being overheard by any lurking enemies.
-- 'How can such a wish be doubted!Have I not already of-fered ' 'Offer your prayers to Him who can give us wisdom to circumvent the cunning of the devils who fill these woods,' calmly interrupted the scout, 'but spare your offers of mon-ey, which neither you may live to realize, nor I to profit by.
-- laying her own beautiful, but less brilliant, hand in melancholy affection on the alabaster forehead of Alice, and parting the golden hair which clus-tered about her brows; 'and yet her soul is pure and spotless as her skin!I could say much more, perhaps, than cooler reason would approve; but I will spare you and myself ' Her voice became inaudible, and her face was bent over the form of her sister.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was toward evening that Ichabod arrived at the cas-tle of the Heer Van Tassel, which he found thronged with the pride and flower of the adjacent country Old farmers, a spare leathern- faced race, in homespun coats and breeches, blue stockings, huge shoes, and magnificent pewter buck-les.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His father was a spare old man, his hands gnarled after the work of a lifetime, silent and upright; in the evening he read the paper aloud, while his wife and daughter (now married to the captain of a fishing smack), unwilling to lose a moment, bent over their sewing.
-- I think he boxed a little in his spare time.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the sailor, he passed the night with one eye on the fire, on which he did not spare fuel.
-- A natural dwelling would spare us much work, and would be a surer retreat, for it would be as well defended against enemies from the interior as those from outside."
-- Neb and Pencroft also watched by turns, and did not spare fuel.
-- "And it will spare the powder and shot," rejoined Cyrus Harding.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though much altered by age, I fancied I could recognize in his spare and slender form something of that delicate mould which I had noticed in the child.
-- I have borne great poverty myself, and would spare her the sufferings that poverty carries with it.
-- I would spare her the miseries that brought her mother, my own dear child, to an early grave.
-- Oh spare me the money for this one last hope!'
-- He was a pale, simple-looking man, of a spare and meagre habit, and sat among his flowers and beehives, smoking his pipe, in the little porch before his door.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Katiousha had to do all the housework, but she managed to do her duty and found spare time for reading.
-- He said to himself that he wished it so that she might be spared the suffering, but in reality he wished to spare himself the sight of her suffering.
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