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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a private gentleman to keep the secret under such circumstances would be very difficult, and for a State whose every act is persistently watched by powerful rivals, certainly impossible.
-- I aspired to nothing more than again seeing my country, my friends, my little lodging by the Jardin des Plantes, my dear and precious collections but nothing could keep me back!I forgot all fatigue, friends and collections and accepted without hesitation the offer of the American Government.
-- "They will keep them at the hotel."
-- "Because it requires incalculable strength to keep one's self in these strata and resist their pressure.
-- Commander Farragut thought, and with reason, that it was better to remain in deep water, and keep clear of continents or islands, which the beast itself seemed to shun (perhaps because there was not enough water for him!suggested the greater part of the crew).
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But still she believed in her strength to keep him, she believed in her own higher knowledge.
-- They intended to keep their relationship a casual free-and-easy friendship, they were not going to be so unmanly and unnatural as to allow any heart-burning between them.
-- Even though he was reading the newspaper closely, he must keep a watchful eye on his external surroundings.
-- He wanted to keep certain illusions, certain ideas like clothing.
-- "And the right thing for mistresses: keep them.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At least, I would not keep my doors barred in the day time.
-- 'As to staying here, I don't keep accommodations for visitors: you must share a bed with Hareton or Joseph, if you do.
-- Fortunately, the beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tails, than devouring me alive; but they would suffer no resurrection, and I was forced to lie till their malignant masters pleased to deliver me: then, hatless and trembling with wrath, I ordered the miscreants to let me out on their peril to keep me one minute longer with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear.
-- 'My head aches, till I cannot keep it on the pillow; and still I can't give over.
-- I seemed to keep them closed above a quarter of an hour; yet, the instant I listened again, there was the doleful cry moaning on!'Begone!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have drawn blood enough to keep him quiet awhile; he should lie for a week where he is that is the best thing for him and you; but another stroke would settle him."
-- "I can't keep 'em still, not I. I haven't had a drop this blessed day.
-- The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's.
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