keep是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 保持， 保存， 遵守， 经营， 看守， 拘留， 维持，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：
-- To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the know-ing ones call 'nuts' to Scrooge.
-- The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.
-- returned the uncle sternly, 'keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.'
-- 'Keep it!'
-- 'But you don't keep it.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Keep where you are,' the guard called to the voice in the mist, 'because, if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime.
-- For he was furnished with that completeness that if the 13coach-lamps had been blown and stormed out, which did occasionally happen, he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
-- The messenger rode back at an easy trot, stopping pretty often at ale-houses by the way to drink, but evincing a ten-dency to keep his own counsel, and to keep his hat cocked over his eyes.
-- As the bank passenger with an arm drawn through the leathern strap, which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding against 17the next passenger, and driving him into his corner, when-ever the coach got a special jolt nodded in his place, with half-shut eyes, the little coach-windows, and the coach-lamp dimly gleaming through them, and the bulky bundle of opposite passenger, became the bank, and did a great stroke of business.
-- 'You think it necessary to keep the unfortunate gentle-man so retired?'
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：
-- 'Ten kisses from the Princess, or I keep the kitchen-pot myself.'
-- 'Yes, but keep my secret, for I am an Emperor's daugh-ter.'
-- 'A hundred kisses from the Princess,' said he, 'or else let everyone keep his own!'
-- She has no doubt taken them for herself, to keep them to all eter-nity.
-- 'Now you shall see how well we agree together"; and while she combed little Gerda's hair, the child forgot her foster-brother Kay more and more, for the old woman understood magic; but she was no evil being, she only prac-tised witchcraft a little for her own private amusement, and now she wanted very much to keep little Gerda.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.
-- Her eyes sparkled, and her rosy lips could not keep from smiling from the consciousness of her own attractiveness.
-- I keep feeling as if I could cry.
-- She knew, too, that in spite of his official duties, which swallowed up almost the whole of his time, he considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world.
-- "I'm just going now, and I shall have to keep in and you won't be able to come to see me," said Dolly, sitting down beside her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Still, I must keep this man here until I can get a warrant to arrest him from London."
-- As for Passepartout, who was mounted on the beast's back, and received the direct force of each concussion as he trod along, he was very careful, in accordance with his master's advice, to keep his tongue from between his teeth, as it would otherwise have been bitten off short.
-- The guide avoided inhabited places, thinking it safer to keep the open country, which lies along the first depressions of the basin of the great river.
-- The Parsee made a motion to keep silence.
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