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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That stillness, which struck casual observers more than anything else in his character and habit, and seemed so precisely like the rest of inanition, may have been the perfect balance of enormous antagonistic forces positives and negatives in fine adjustment.
-- Will you let the matter rest now?
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The floor is sufficiently uneven, the wainscot rises to elbow height, and the rest of the wall space is decorated with a varnished paper, on which the principal scenes from _Telemaque_ are depicted, the various classical personages being colored.
-- Vauquer herself occupying the least important, while the rest were let to a Mme.
-- Ordinarily he wore a shabby coat and waistcoat, the limp black cravat, untidily knotted, that students affect, trousers that matched the rest of his costume, and boots that had been resoled.
-- His habit of life was very regular; he usually went out after breakfast, returning in time for dinner, and disappeared for the rest of the evening, letting himself in about midnight with a latch key, a privilege that Mme.
-- He had deliberately made his apparent good-nature, his unfailing readiness to oblige, and his high spirits into a barrier between himself and the rest of them, but not seldom he gave glimpses of appalling depths of character.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I profited of this time to rest for a few hours.
-- My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler 40 Frankensteinhas not seized.
-- For this I had deprived myself of rest and health.
-- I took refuge in the courtyard be-59longing to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fear-ing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.
-- Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete!
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett, like the rest of the County, could never get used to the way smallMrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.
-- "Well, hell!I like Cathleen and she is fun and I'd like to hear about Caro Rhett and the rest of the Charlestonfolks; but I'm damned if I can stand sitting through another meal with that Yankee stepmother of hers."
-- He was as proficient as any of the other young men in the usual County diversions, hunting,gambling, dancing and politics, and was the best rider of them all; but he differed from all the rest in that thesepleasant activities were not the end and aim of life to him.
-- From them he learned what he found useful, and the rest he dismissed.
-- With all the rest of the County, Gerald was on terms of amity and some intimacy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime, Mrs. Joe put clean white curtains up, and tacked a new flowered flounce across the wide chimney to replace the old one, and uncovered the little state parlor across the passage, which was never uncovered at any other time, but passed the rest of the year in a cool haze of silver paper, which even extended to the four little white crockery poodles on the mantel-shelf, each with a black nose and a basket of flowers in his mouth, and each the counterpart of the other.
-- One of the soldiers opened its wooden windows, another lighted the fire, another turned to at the bellows, the rest stood round the blaze, which was soon roaring.
-- Nothing less than the frosty light of the cheerful sky, the sight of people passing beyond the bars of the court-yard gate, and the reviving influence of the rest of the bread and meat and beer, would have brought me round.
-- For the rest, he was a young gentleman in a gray suit (when not denuded for battle), with his elbows, knees, wrists, and heels considerably in advance of the rest of him as to development.
-- I thought it would be very good for me if I could get her out of my head, with all the rest of those remembrances and fancies, and could go to work determined to relish what I had to do, and stick to it, and make the best of it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will reach a vil-lage in the evening; and when you get there, you will see two inns opposite to each other, one of which is very pleas-ant and beautiful to look at: go not in there, but rest for the night in the other, though it may appear to you to be very poor and mean.'
-- Howev-er, at last it was agreed he should go, for he would not rest at home; and as he came to the wood, he met the fox, and heard the same good counsel.
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