guard是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 保卫， 守卫， 提防n. 哨兵， 警卫， 看守，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Cratchit made the 62 Sons and Loversgravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dust-ed the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself, A tale of two citiesthat Friday night in November, one thousand seven hun-dred and seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.
-- The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the hors-es; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.
-- the guard replied.
-- The horses stopped to breathe again, and the guard got down to skid the wheel for the descent, and open the coach-door to let the passengers in.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They could all talk well enough when they were out in the street; but as soon as they came inside the palace gates, and saw the guard richly dressed in silver, and the lackeys in gold on the staircase, and the large illu-minated saloons, then they were abashed; and when they stood before the throne on which the Princess was sitting, all they could do was to repeat the last word they had ut-tered, and to hear it again did not interest her very much.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A smart guard jumped out, giving a whistle, and after him one by one the impatient passengers began to get down: an officer of the guards, holding himself erect, and looking severely about him; a nimble little merchant with a satchel, smiling gaily; a peasant with a sack over his shoulder.
-- Chapter 18 Vronsky followed the guard to the carriage, and at the door of the compartment he stopped short to make room for a lady who was getting out.
-- The fuss and bustle were disturbing; then when the train had started, she could not help listening to the noises; then the snow beating on the left window and sticking to the pane, and the sight of the muffled guard passing by, covered with snow on one side, and the conversations about the terrible snowstorm raging outside, distracted her attention.
-- Kneeling down, with her hands over the mushrooms to guard them from Grisha, she was calling little Masha.
-- His ears were filled with the incessant hum in various notes, now the busy hum of the working bee flying quickly off, then the blaring of the lazy drone, and the excited buzz of the bees on guard protecting their property from the enemy and preparing to sting.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His affection flew to guard Leora, to wrap and protect her.
-- You owe it to the grand old flag to cultivate yourself, To train the mind, keep clean the streets, and ever guard your health.
-- They came out on the warehouse floor, ignoring the guard, springing up as though (the guard said merrily) they were trying to fly, and straightway falling dead.
-- Have to guard it-- patients get delirious and try to escape."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this hapless Liza-veta was so simple and had been so thoroughly crushed and scared that she did not even raise a hand to guard her face, though that was the most necessary and natural action at the moment, for the axe was raised over her face.
-- We must guard Dounia from him 芒聙娄 that's what I wanted to tell you, do you hear?'
-- 'Guard her!What can he do to harm Avdotya Romanov-na?
-- We will, we will guard her.
-- The guard succeeded in intervening between him and his assailant, or there would have been bloodshed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt it rather hard, I must own, to be made, without deserving it,the subject of jokes between the coachman and guard as to thecoach drawing heavy behind, on account of my sitting there, andas to the greater expediency of my travelling by waggon.
-- She was to have my bed, and I was to lie in thesitting-room, to keep guard over her.
-- But I might- I might- if this silly businesswere not completely relinquished altogether, be induced in someanxious moment to guard her from, and surround her withprotections against, the consequences of, any foolish step in theway of marriage.
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