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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You keep your nerves steady."
-- "Please keep sitting where you are," said the Invisible Man.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a day of alternate sleep and feeding I was so far re-covered as to be able to get from my bunk to the scuttle, and see the green seas trying to keep pace with us.
-- 'I'd advise you to keep your hands off him.'
-- After all, it is better to keep your secret.
-- Alter-nately I appealed to one and another of the three men, first to the grey-haired man to let me land, and then to the drunk-en captain to keep me aboard.
-- That will keep on for hours yet.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, hear the call! Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law!
-- Wilt thou still keep him, Mother?'
-- 'Keep him!'
-- Assuredly I will keep him.
-- Get one swiftly, and keep it by thee for time of need.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That I will, and in English that the king needn't beashamed to answer,' returned the hunter, speaking in the language of which he boasted; 'but I see nothing, nor do I hear the sounds of man or beast; 'tis strange that an Indian should understand white sounds better than a man who, his very enemies will own, has no cross in his blood, although he may have lived with the red skins long enough to be sus-pected!Ha!there goes something like the cracking of a dry stick, too now I hear the bushes move yes, yes, there is a trampling that I mistook for the falls and but here they come themselves; God keep them from the Iroquois!'
-- These Mohicans and I will do what man's thoughts can in-vent, to keep such flowers, which, though so sweet, were never made for the wilderness, from harm, and that without hope of any other recompense but such as God always gives to upright dealings.
-- 'The one is, to be still as these sleeping woods, let what will happen and the other is, to keep the place where we shall take you, forever a secret from all mortal men.'
-- 'You are at the foot of Glenn's,' returned the other, speak-ing aloud, without fear of consequences within the roar of the cataract; 'and the next thing is to make a steady land-ing, lest the canoe upset, and you should go down again the hard road we have traveled faster than you came up; 'tis a hard rift to stem, when the river is a little swelled; and five is an unnatural number to keep dry, in a hurry-skurry, with a little birchen bark and gum.
-- These gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohicans and I will watch upon the rock, where I suppose a major of the Sixtieth would wish to keep us company.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, it behooved him to keep on good terms with his pupils.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the other hand, she might wish to keep the affair quiet, and it might be highly indiscreet on my part to give any sign that this strange news had reached me.
-- It was impossible to keep up our social pretences any longer.
-- "I preferred to keep it to myself."
-- I arranged with the concierge to make my coffee in the morning and to keep the place clean.
-- With that queer idea of his to keep his whereabouts secret, it was unlikely that, on leaving, he had said where he was going.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was he who, after the affair of the Black River, determined at any cost to keep his place at the wicket of the telegraph office, and after having announced to his journal the result of the battle, telegraphed for two hours the first chapters of the Bible.
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