rest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 休息； 剩余部分v. 休息； 睡； 放， 靠， 搁，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual mel-ancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker's-book, went home to bed.
-- As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance happened to rest upon a bell, a disused bell, that hung in the room, and communi-cated for some purpose now forgotten with a chamber in the highest story of the building.
-- returned Scrooge, 'I have but to swallow this, and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of goblins, all of my own creation.
-- Scrooge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help thinking that a night of unbroken rest would have been more conducive to that end.
-- It was a Game called Yes and No, where Scrooge's neph-ew had to think of something, and the rest must find out what; he only answering to their questions yes or no, as the case was.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He walked up hill in the mire by the side of the mail, as the rest of the passengers did; not because they had the least relish for walking exercise, under the circumstances, but because the hill, and the harness, and the mud, and the mail, were all so heavy, that the horses had three times already come to a stop, besides once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath.
-- There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.
-- The guard soon replaced his blunderbuss in his arm-chest, and, hav-ing looked to the rest of its contents, and having looked to the supplementary pistols that he wore in his belt, looked to a smaller chest beneath his seat, in which there were a few smith's tools, a couple of torches, and a tinder-box.
-- When the quiet of the garret had been long undisturbed, and his heaving breast and shaken form had long yielded to the calm that must follow all storms emblem to human-ity, of the rest and silence into which the storm called Life must hush at last they came forward to raise the father and daughter from the ground.
-- 155 He was arrested by the quick arrival of another man, for whom the rest made way.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell him he shall, as on yesterday, have ten kisses from me, and may take the rest from the ladies of the court.'
-- But now the rest of the body was to be got through!
-- At last he was forced to rest a little.
-- 'Travelling would be agreeable enough,' said he groaning, 'if one only had no body, or could send it to rest while the spirit went on its pilgrimage unhindered, whither the voice within might call it.
-- I must not rest any longer.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne.
-- The first thing to do to set his heart at rest was to accomplish what he had come to Moscow for.
-- Her heat throbbed violently, and her thoughts would not rest on anything.
-- About all the rest there might be a doubt, but the velvet was delicious.
-- "It's a rest to waltz with you," he said to her, as they fell into the first slow steps of the waltz.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His photograph, which was hung with those of the rest of the members at the Reform Club, was minutely examined, and it betrayed, feature by feature, the description of the robber which had been provided to the police.
-- "She was bespoken yesterday at Port Said, and the rest of the way is of no account to such a craft.
-- Happily the temple walls were built of brick and wood, which could be penetrated with little difficulty; after one brick had been taken out, the rest would yield easily.
-- Fix, as he bowed, had a stifled feeling, and, going forward, where he ensconced himself, did not open his mouth for the rest of the day.
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