preserve是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 保护, 保存，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Meanwhile,' said the Marquis, 'I will preserve the hon-our and repose of the family, if you will not.
-- It was a hard matter to preserve the innocent deceit of which they were profoundly unsuspicious.
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：
-- The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; and soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over his stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had no clapper, and it was tarred over to preserve it from the rain.
-- It is surpris-ing how well you preserve your teeth, Miss,' said the collar.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without giving himself a reason for what he was doing, he strained every nerve of his being for those two days, simply to preserve an appearance of composure, and even of indifference.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Heaven preserve me!But I would wager four thousand pounds that such a journey, made under these conditions, is impossible."
-- Passepartout longed to ask him if the steamer had left for Yokohama; but he dared not, for he wished to preserve the spark of hope, which still remained till the last moment.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That she had not married, at thirty-three, was due entirely to the preference of modern young men for jazz-dancing hussies; and she was not only a young lady of delicate reservations but also a singer; in fact, she was going to the West Indies to preserve the wonders of primitive art for reverent posterity in the native ballads she would collect and sing to a delighted public--if only she learned how to sing.
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：
-- We may add in parenthesis that to preserve all this is the 292 Crime and Punishmentonly means of retaining beauty to old age.
-- The first preserve the world and people it, the sec-ond move the world and lead it to its goal.
-- One of them, a very curly-headed man with a red inflamed face, was standing in the pose of an orator, without his coat, with his legs wide apart to preserve his balance, and smiting himself on the breast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now I am in the garden at the back, beyondthe yard where the empty pigeon-house and dog-kennel are- avery preserve of butterflies, as I remember it, with a high fence,and a gate and padlock; where the fruit clusters on the trees, riperand richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, andwhere my mother gathers some in a basket, while I stand by,bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unmoved.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' Yet he would be so anxious for her being perfectly warm, would be so interested about her father, and so delighted with Mrs. Weston; and at last would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so lit-tle knowledge as seemed terribly like a would-be lover, and made it some effort with her to preserve her good manners.
-- Emma saw him only once; but two or three times every day Harriet was sure just to meet with him, or just to miss him, just to hear his voice, or see his shoulder, just to have something occur to preserve him in her fancy, in all the favouring warmth of surprize and conjecture.
-- He could not see her in a situation of such danger, without trying to preserve her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba tried to preserve an absolutely neutral countenance, and all the motion she made was that of closing lips which had previously been a little parted.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have not been gambling, my kind mother, I owe no one a penny; but if you would preserve the life that you gave me, you must send me the sum I mention.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peace-ful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.
-- She embraced Elizabeth and said in a voice of half-suppressed emotion, 'Farewell, sweet lady, dearest Elizabeth, my beloved and only friend; may heaven, in its bounty, bless and preserve you; may this be the last misfortune that you will ever suffer!Live, and be happy, and make others so.'
-- Why did they preserve so miserable and detested a life?
-- For this purpose I will preserve my life; to execute this dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes forever.
-- They are dead, and but one feeling in such a solitude can persuade me to preserve my life.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, saints preserve us, he had heard everything!She rallied her forces into asemblance of dignity.
-- "Now, do you feel that you must slap me to preserve theproprieties?"
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