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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any rate we'll spare ourselves the nausea of stirring the old broth any more.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps I can get a guide among your lads, and he might stay at the Grange till morning could you spare me one?
-- It is only your guest, sir,' I called out, desirous to spare him the humiliation of exposing his cowardice further.
-- Indeed, he would have carpeted and papered a small spare room for a parlour; but his wife expressed such pleasure at the white floor and huge glowing fireplace, at the pewter dishes and delf case, and dog kennel, and the wide space there was to move about in where they usually sat, that he thought it unnecessary to her comfort, and so dropped the intention.
-- We thought a bolt had fallen in the middle of us; and Joseph swung on to his knees, beseeching the Lord to remember the patriarchs Noah and Lot, and, as in former times, spare the righteous, though he smote the ung odly.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He intended to read them in spare moments while traveling through the villages, but as he looked on them now he felt that his mind was far from these subjects.
-- And what sins you will spare yourself----" "The sin is on you," said the German.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doctor's watch were all back at their loopholes, the rest were busy loading the spare muskets, and everyone with a red face, you may be certain, and a flea in his ear, as the saying is.
-- Kill me, if you please, or spare me.
-- But one thing I'll say, and no more; if you spare me, bygones are bygones, and when you fellows are in court for piracy, I'll save you all I can.
-- Kill another and do yourselves no good, or spare me and keep a witness to save you from the gallows."
-- "Doctor," I said, "you might spare me.
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