maintenance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 维修， 保养， 维持， 保持， 生活费用，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His estate was sold for the creditors; and the little girls two of them, of seven and eight years of age respectively, were adopted by Totski, who undertook their maintenance and education in the kindness of his heart.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He believed neither in God nor the devil, but was much concerned about the question of the improvement of the clergy and the maintenance of their revenues, and took special trouble to keep up the church in his village.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had served in the Caucasus, where he had received this cross; then in Poland and in some other place, and now he held the office which gave him good quarters, maintenance and honor.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you pay thirty millions for the police and the courts of justice, for the maintenance of law and order!A pretty slate of things it is!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Truly, having by this time said everything she could say in maintenance of her wonderfully mythical position, and in admonition to Mr Meagles that he must not expect to bear his honours of alliance too cheaply, Mrs Gowan was disposed to forgo the rest.
-- If the guests chose to partake of what was served, he saw no objection; but it was served for the maintenance of his rank.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mrs. Dashwood began shortly to give over every hope of the kind, and to be convinced, from the general drift of his discourse, that his assistance extended no farther than their maintenance for six months at Norland.
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