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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will be so, if we can make a fireplace in the left passage and keep an opening for the smoke."
-- "I doubt it," replied the sailor, shaking his head, "for neither Neb nor Captain Harding smoke, and I believe that Mr. Spilett would rather keep his note-book than his match-box."
-- They must now take great care not to let the fire go out, and always to keep some embers alight.
-- But on consideration, it was thought necessary that someone should remain to keep in the fire, and to be at hand in the highly improbable event of Neb requiring aid.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah!It's a weary life for an old man a weary, weary life but there is a great end to gain and that I keep before me.'
-- I want to see my sister, that you keep cooped up here, poisoning her mind with your sly secrets and pretending an affection for her that you may work her to death, and add a few scraped shillings every week to the money you can hardly count.
-- The best they can do, is to keep an eye to their business and leave me to mine.
-- But you are a deep man, and keep your secret close.'
-- And though she did beguile the time and keep me from my bed, you must not be so tenderly careful of me as to be out of humour with her.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the efforts of several hundred thousand people, crowded in a small space, to disfigure the land on which they lived; all the stone they covered it with to keep it barren; how so diligently every sprouting blade of grass was removed; all the smoke of coal and naphtha; all the cutting down of trees and driving off of cattle could not shut out the spring, even from the city.
-- So keep it in mind.
-- "Very well; so let it be the poison case," said the justice, considering that that case could be disposed of by four o'clock and make it possible for him to keep the appointment.
-- While the jury were mounting the steps to the elevation where the desk stood, the priest wriggled his bald, hoary head through the opening of the stole, then rearranging his scanty hair, he turned to the jury: "Raise your right hands and keep your fingers thus," he said, in a slow, feeble voice, raising his bloated hand and pointing at his forehead with the first three of its dimpled fingers.
-- Their rights, according to him, consisted in that they were allowed to question prisoners, through the presiding justice; they might keep pencils and paper, and might also view exhibits.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had the hardest task in the world to keep my hands off their pretty laughing faces.
-- If we could get through it to the bare hillside, there, as it seemed to me, was an altogether safer resting-place; I thought that with my matches and my camphor I could contrive to keep my path illuminated through the woods.
-- He spoke like one who was trying to keep hold of an idea that eluded him.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They don't keep this room so tidy as the other,' Alice thought to herself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the cinders: but in another moment, with a little 'Oh!'
-- 'You make me laugh so that I can hardly hold you!And don't keep your mouth so wide open!All the ashes will get into it there, now I think you're tidy enough!'
-- So, resolutely turning her back upon the house, she set out once more down the path, determined to keep straight on till she got to the hill.
-- 'As if you ever saw anybody!You keep your head under the leaves, and snore away there, till you know no more what's going on in the world, than if you were a bud!'
-- Alice never could quite make out, in thinking it over afterwards, how it was that they began: all she remembers is, that they were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying 'Faster!Faster!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had taken me aside one day and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my "weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg" and let him know the moment he appeared.
-- says the doctor; and when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that this was so, "I have only one thing to say to you, sir," replies the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"
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