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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He's a spy sent to keep us in view!That isn't quite the thing, either, to be spying Mr. Fogg, who is so honourable a man!Ah, gentlemen of the Reform, this shall cost you dear!"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sure, keep right on--fine brave virile bunch!A poor weakling preacher like me wouldn't dare do anything so brave as smoke a pipe!"
-- "That's all right, but you keep it there.
-- "I tell you, you fellows are the kind that keep medicine nothing but guess-work diagnosis, and here you have a man--" So they argued for hours, after their sweaty fact-grinding.
-- VII Angus Duer's studiousness and his reverence for correct manners were alike offended by Clif's bawdy singing, Clif's howling conversation, Clif's fondness for dropping things in people's soup, and Clif's melancholy inability to keep his hands washed.
-- You will note, I am sure you will have noted already, that in the bottom of the tumbler there was cotton to keep the tube from being broken.
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：
-- For now she's got to keep up her appearance.
-- She was trying to comfort him, whispering something to him, and doing all she could to keep him from whimpering again.
-- What a grief it was to me when I heard that you had given up the university some months ago, for want of means to keep yourself and that you had lost your lessons and your other work!How could I help you out of my hundred and twenty roubles a year pension?
-- Oh, yes, she can ensure his happiness, keep him in the university, make him a partner in the office, make his whole future secure; perhaps he may even be a rich man later on, prosperous, respected, and may even end his life a famous man!But my mother?
-- Think how can we keep her out of his hands, and how are we to get her home?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of thisproperty; and if any- body else should be in the present enjoymentof it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.
-- So I was sentupstairs to Peggotty to be made spruce; and, in the meantime Mr.Murdstone dismounted, and, with his horse's bridle drawn overhis arm, walked slowly up and down on the outer side of thesweetbriar fence, while my mother walked slowly up and down onthe inner, to keep him company.
-- From that blessedlittle room, Roderick Random, Pere- grine Pickle, HumphreyClinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas,and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep mecompany.
-- Supposing nobody should ever fetch me, how long would theyconsent to keep me there?
-- Would they keep me long enough tospend seven shillings?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma smiled and chatted as cheerfully as she could, to keep him from such thoughts; but when tea came, it was impossible for him not to say exactly as he had said at dinner, 'Poor Miss Taylor! I wish she were here again.
-- Emma shall be an angel, and I will keep my spleen to myself till Christmas brings John and Isabella.
-- Keep your raptures for Harriet's face.
-- The naivete of Miss Smith's man-ners and altogether Oh, it is most admirable!I cannot keep my eyes from it.
-- For some weeks past she had been spending more than half her time there, and gradually getting to have a bed-room appropriated to herself; and Emma judged it best in every respect, safest and kindest, to keep her with them as much as possible just at present.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mercy! how many opinions you keep about you concerning other people, Gabriel Oak."
-- "I shall do one thing in this life one thing certain that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die."
-- "Stand here with a bucket of water and keep the cloth wet."
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