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：
-- Not a single native was visible; only the watchful sentinels relieving guard at the door of the Ware-Atoua.
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：
-- You are aware that I am not a very sound sleeper, and since I have been on guard in this house my slumbers have been light-er than ever.
-- Another day two at the most and I have my case complete, but until then guard your charge as closely as ever a fond mother watched her ailing child.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally the children came with me; when they did so, they would stand some way off and keep guard over us, so as to tell me if anybody came near.
-- 'Really, you know, you are making yourself a nuisance, by keeping guard over me like this.
-- But he put me off my guard like that, you see.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Father Jove,' he cried, 'that rulest in Ida, most glorious in power, and thou oh Sun, that seest and givest ear to all things, Earth and Rivers, and ye who in the realms below chastise the soul of him that has broken his oath, wit-ness these rites and guard them, that they be not vain.
-- Nine whole nights did they set a guard over me taking it in turns to watch, and they kept a fire always burning, both in the cloister of the outer court and in the inner court at the doors of the room wherein I lay; but when the darkness of the tenth night came, I broke through the closed doors of my room, and climbed the wall of the out-er court after passing quickly and unperceived through the men on guard and the women servants.
-- Even so guide me and guard me now, and in return I will offer you in sacrifice a broad-browed heifer of a year old, unbroken, and never yet brought by man under the yoke.
-- Hector and the other councillors are now holding conference by the monument of great Ilus, away from the general tumult; as for the guards about which you ask me, there is no chosen watch to keep guard over the host.
-- The Trojans came about him on every side and struck his broad and gleaming shield, but could not wound his body, for Neptune stood guard over the son of Nestor, though the darts fell thickly round him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the death of this poor dog of mine, my last friend, I too adopted to some ex-tent the practice of slumbering in the daytime in order to be on my guard at night.
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：
-- The deepest sounds of the retiring and invisible column had ceased to be borne on the breeze to the listeners, and the latest straggler had already disappeared in pursuit; but there still remained the signs of another departure, before a log cabin of unusual size and accommodations, in front of which those sentinels paced their rounds, who were known to guard the person of the English general.
-- 'Nature has made an impenetrable barrier on this side,' he continued, pointing down the perpendicular declivity into the dark current before he dropped the blanket; 'and as you know that good men and true are on guard in front I see no reason why the advice of our honest host should be disregarded.
-- When Duncan had done both these, he led the guard to the sally-port, near which he found his superior ready, waiting his appearance.
-- He was interrupted by the clamor of a drum from the approaching Frenchmen, which was immediately answered, when each party pushed an orderly in advance, bearing a white flag, and the wary Scotsman halted with his guard close at his back.
-- Then that success, which was already so well known, was officially announced; the favored band who were selected to guard the gates of the fort were detailed, and defiled be-fore their chief; the signal of their approach was given, and all the usual preparations for a change of masters were or-dered and executed directly under the guns of the contested works.
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：
-- With its jagged outline it is like a Monseratt of the Pacific, and you may imagine that there Polynesian knights guard with strange rites mysteries unholy for men to know.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had not even appeared necessary in that horrible weather to place a guard in the square, in the midst of which plunged the balloon.
-- It is necessary to guard against a possible attack, so that we shall not be obliged to watch every night, or to keep up a fire.
-- In the meanwhile Top was ordered to mount guard below the windows of Granite House, and when Top received an order he obeyed it without any questioning.
-- It was evident that the intruders had wished to guard themselves against a surprise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sleep soundly, Nell,' he said in a low voice, 'and angels guard thy bed!Do not forget thy prayers, my sweet.'
-- The waking from a sound nap as the mail came dashing past like a highway comet, with gleaming lamps and rattling hoofs, and visions of a guard behind, standing up to keep his feet warm, and of a gentleman in a fur cap opening his eyes and looking wild and stupefied the stopping at the turnpike where the man was gone to bed, and knocking at the door until he answered with a smothered shout from under the bed-clothes in the little room above, where the faint light was burning, and presently came down, night-capped and shivering, to throw the gate wide open, and wish all waggons off the road except by day.
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