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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I think we had better keep to the French, since that was the most complete document of the three."
-- I promised Lady Helena a pleasure trip, and I am much mistaken if I don't keep my word."
-- Do you not all agree with me that it is our duty to go along the line my finger is pointing out at this moment on the map, and if after all we find I have been mistaken, still to keep straight on and follow the 37th parallel till we find those we seek, if even we go right round the world?"
-- It was, therefore, decided that Arauco should be the point of departure, and they should keep on from there toward the east in a straight line.
-- The entire region had been overturned by recent shocks of earthquake, and all they could do was to keep on climbing higher and higher.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It ran: 'As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.'
-- 'You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.'
-- How is the owner going to restore the glories of the Baskervilles if he has not money enough to keep up the property?
-- Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.'
-- But, first of all, I must keep you in touch with some of the other factors in the situation.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see you are still uneasy about me and keep eyeing my cloak and bundle.
-- Even now, as I talk to you, I keep saying to myself 'how well I am speaking it.'
-- The general considered that the girls' taste and good sense should be allowed to develop and mature deliberately, and that the parents' duty should merely be to keep watch, in or-der that no strange or undesirable choice be made; but that the selection once effected, both father and mother were bound from that moment to enter heart and soul into the cause, and to see that the matter progressed without hin-drance until the altar should be happily reached.
-- There was evidently, he concluded, something at work here; some storm of the mind, some paroxysm of romantic anger, goodness knows against whom or what, some insa-tiable contempt in a word, something altogether absurd and impossible, but at the same time most dangerous to be met with by any respectable person with a position in soci-ety to keep up.
-- Did he keep careful account of his minutes?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Are you to keep your own prize, while I sit tamely under my loss and give up the girl at your bidding?
-- Keep it not from me, but tell me, that we may know it together.'
-- When it is proper for you to hear, there is no one, god or man, who will be told sooner, but when I mean to keep a matter to myself, you must not pry nor ask questions.'
-- Stand to your post, and bid your people also keep their places.
-- Drop this chatter about kings, and neither revile them nor keep harping about going home.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I prefer to keep them on," he said with emphasis, and she noticed that he wore big blue spectacles with sidelights, and had a bush side- whisker over his coat-collar that completely hid his cheeks and face.
-- "And I'd thank you kindly, sir, if you'd keep your swearing to yourself, sir," said Mrs. Hall.
-- "I wish you'd keep your fingers out of my eye," said the aerial voice, in a tone of savage expostulation.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His head swam and he was so frightened that he clutched wildly at the Pigeon's neck to keep himself from falling.
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