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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon.
-- Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the line of the equator; yea, ye gods!go down to the fiery pit itself, in order to keep out this frost?
-- said I, "what sort of a chap is he does he always keep such late hours?"
-- Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again.
-- So, Mr. Queequeg" (for she had learned his name), "I will just take this here iron, and keep it for you till morning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you think this respectful or proper conduct, Mrs. Mann,' inquired Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane, 'to keep the parish officers a waiting at your garden-gate, when they come here upon porochial business with the porochial orphans?
-- 'Why, it's what I'm obliged to keep a little of in the house, to put into the blessed infants' Daffy, when they ain't well, Mr. Bumble,' replied Mrs. Mann as she opened a corner cupboard, and took down a bottle and glass.
-- Come; don't keep me here all night!'
-- There was neither knocker nor bell-handle at the open door where Oliver and his master stopped; so, groping his way cautiously through the dark passage, and bidding Oliver keep close to him and not be afraid the undertaker mounted to the top of the first flight of stairs.
-- 'Keep back!Damn you, keep back, if you've a life to lose!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven's sake!Have a little compassion on my nerves.
-- Miss Bingley is to live with her brother, and keep his house; and I am much mistaken if we shall not find a very charming neighbour in her.'
-- But I can guess how it was; everybody says that he is eat up with pride, and I dare say he had heard somehow that Mrs. Long does not keep a carriage, and had come to the ball in a hack chaise.'
-- I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day.'
-- And gravely glancing at Mr. Darcy, 'There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The apartment of the jailer and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case the guillotine locked up.'
-- You know where they keep the razor.'
-- We have been advised more than once when she has been a little ailing, to change climate and air for her as often as we could especially at about this time of her life and to keep her amused.
-- I know I might keep it off if I only tried hard enough, and sometimes I do try hard enough, and at other times I don't and won't.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can do as you please, but I shall keep my book on the table here and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good and help me through the day.'
-- 'Merry Christmas, little daughters!I'm glad you began at once, and hope you will keep on.
-- Six chil-dren are huddled into one bed to keep from freezing, for they have no fire.
-- A poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken win-dows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm.
-- 'You must sit still all you can and keep your back out of sight.
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