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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the king was obliged to keep his word, and away went the young man and the princess; and the fox came and said to him, 'We will have all three, the princess, the horse, and the bird.'
-- 'Well,' thought the young man, 'it is no hard matter to keep that advice.'
-- 'I think,' answered the bean, 'that as we have so fortu-nately escaped death, we should keep together like good companions, and lest a new mischance should overtake us 31here, we should go away together, and repair to a foreign country.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The united praise of the whole race would be of less consequence to me, than the neighing of those two degenerate Houyhnhnms I keep in my stable; because from these, degenerate as they are, I still improve in some virtues without any mixture of vice.
-- '2d, He shall not presume to come into our metropolis, without our express order; at which time, the inhabitants shall have two hours warning to keep within doors.
-- I walked with the utmost circumspection, to avoid treading on any stragglers who might remain in the streets, although the orders were very strict, that all people should keep in their houses, at their own peril.
-- The cottagers and labourers keep their children at home, their business being only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore their education is of little consequence to the pub-lic: but the old and diseased among them, are supported by hospitals; for begging is a trade unknown in this empire.
-- His maj-esty presented me with fifty purses of two hundred sprugs a-piece, together with his picture at full length, which I put immediately into one of my gloves, to keep it from being hurt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.
-- 'You know, as well as I do, no young people have circus masters, or keep circuses in cabinets, or attend lectures about circuses.
-- 'And when you have made it, you can keep it too, I should think,' said Cupid.
-- 'Oh, no!Pray let me keep it for father till he comes back!He will want it when he comes back.
-- I must keep it for him, if you please!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not so my excellent uncle, Professor Hardwigg; he studied, he consumed the midnight oil, he pored over heavy tomes, and digested huge quartos and folios in order to keep the knowledge acquired to himself.
-- It read as follows: mmessunkaSenrA.icefdoK.segnittamurtn ecertserrette,rotaivsadua,ednecsedsadne lacartniiilrJsiratracSarbmutabiledmek meretarcsilucoYsleffenSnI. I could scarcely keep from laughing, while my uncle, on the contrary, got in a towering passion, struck the table with his fist, darted out of the room, out of the house, and then taking to his heels was presently lost to sight.
-- But try as I might, nothing could keep me from thinking alternately of the stupid manuscript and of the pretty Gretchen.
-- I will therefore be silent and strictly keep the secret I have discovered.
-- Besides, some means would surely be found to keep my uncle back from attempting any such absurd expedition.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Crippled for ever, know-ing he could never have any children, Clifford came home to the smoky Midlands to keep the Chatterley name alive while he could.
-- But I keep him.
-- The one that got her first was the real dog among dogs, if you go by success!So Michaelis could keep his tail up.
-- Beneath his pale, immobile, disillusioned face, his child's soul was sobbing with gratitude to the woman, and burning to come to her again; just as his outcast soul was knowing he would keep really clear of her.
-- But then she soon learnt to hold him, to keep him there inside her when his crisis was over.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Blinds, shutters, curtains, awnings, were all closed and drawn to keep out the stare.
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