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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But desolate as the country appeared, Thalcave was on his guard against surprises, and gave orders to his party to form themselves in a close platoon.
-- No one could doubt that an oversight on the part of the guard had caused the catastrophe.
-- The numerous robberies committed after the accident, the body of the guard picked up about half a mile from Camden Bridge, proved that this catastrophe was the result of a crime.
-- The wagon, a regular fortress buried in mud, was made the center of the camp, and two men mounted guard round it, who were relieved hour by hour.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She never saw Laurie mount guard in the hall to warn the servants away.
-- Hannah is faithfulness itself, and our good neighbor will guard you as if you were his own.
-- 2, All serene on the Rappahannock, troops in fine condi-tion, commisary department well conducted, the Home Guard under Colonel Teddy always on duty, Commander in Chief General Laurence reviews the army daily, Quar-termaster Mullet keeps order in camp, and Major Lion does picket duty at night.
-- So quiet and reposeful within, for everyone slept, spent with watching, and a Sabbath stillness reigned through the house, while nodding Hannah mounted guard at the door.
-- She gave that funny guard to keep the turquoise on, as it's too big.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists, whose jollity is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put all inferiors on their guard in the matter of obeying them.
-- Meantime, the crew driven from the forward part of the ship by the perilous seas that burstingly broke over its bows, stood in a line along the bulwarks in the waist; and the better to guard against the leaping waves, each man had slipped himself into a sort of bowline secured to the rail, in which he swung as in a loosened belt.
-- The shores of the Straits of Sunda are unsupplied with those domineering fortresses which guard the entrances to the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Propontis.
-- And this it was, this same unaccountable, cunning life-principle in him; this it was, that kept him a great part of the time soliloquizing; but only like an unreasoning wheel, which also hummingly soliloquizes; or rather, his body was a sentry-box and this soliloquizer on guard there, and talking all the time to keep himself awake.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was generally evident whenever they met, that he DID admire her and to HER it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a way to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane united, with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and a uniform cheerfulness of manner which would guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent.
-- The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance; and Miss Lucas, who ac-cepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment, cared not how soon that establishment were gained.
-- The vicious propensities the want of principle, which he was careful to guard from the knowledge of his best friend, could not escape the observation of a young man of nearly the same age with himself, and who had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded moments, which Mr. Darcy could not have.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, as my arable land was but small, suited to my crop, I got it totally well fenced in about three weeks' time; and shooting some of the creatures in the daytime, I set my dog to guard it in the night, tying him up to a stake at the gate, where he would stand and bark all night long; so in a little time the enemies forsook the place, and the corn grew very strong and well, and began to ripen apace.
-- As soon as they got to the place where their other boat lay, they ran their boat into the beach and came all on shore, hauling the boat up after them, which I was glad to see, for I was afraid they would rather have left the boat at an an-chor some distance from the shore, with some hands in her to guard her, and so we should not be able to seize the boat.
-- In about an hour more we came to the town where we were to lodge, which we found in a terrible fright and all in arms; for, it seems, the night before the wolves and some bears had bro-ken into the village, and put them in such terror that they were obliged to keep guard night and day, but especially in the night, to preserve their cattle, and indeed their people.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Supported by the conviction of having done nothing to merit her present unhappiness, and consoled by the belief that Edward had done nothing to forfeit her esteem, she thought she could even now, under the first smart of the heavy blow, command herself enough to guard every suspicion of the truth from her mother and sisters.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A big, motherly looking woman invariably stood guard at the door during the entire operation and counted the admissible number.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How can they get loose when there's a guard over them, ready to shoot them down if they move a peg?'
-- One time Tom sent a boy to run about town with a blazing stick, which he called a slogan (which was the sign for the Gang to get together), and then he said he had got secret news by his spies that next day a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and rich A-rabs was going to camp in Cave Hollow with two hundred elephants, and six hun-dred camels, and over a thousand 'sumter' mules, all loaded down with di'monds, and they didn't have only a guard of four hundred soldiers, and so we would lay in ambuscade, as he called it, and kill the lot and scoop the things.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime, since my watchdog died today, you may take his place and guard my henhouse."
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