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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the Roads being reckoned as good as a harbour, the anchor-age good, and our ground- tackle very strong, our men were unconcerned, and not in the least apprehensive of danger, but spent the time in rest and mirth, after the manner of the sea; but the eighth day, in the morning, the wind increased, and we had all hands at work to strike our topmasts, and make everything snug and close, that the ship might ride as easy as possible.
-- In the middle of the night, and under all the rest of our distresses, one of the men that had been down to see cried out we had sprung a leak; an-other said there was four feet water in the hold.
-- The usage I had there was not so dreadful as at first Iapprehended; nor was I carried up the country to the em-peror's court, as the rest of our men were, but was kept by the captain of the rover as his proper prize, and made his slave, being young and nimble, and fit for his business.
-- The wind blew from the N.N.E., which was contrary to my desire, for had it blown southerly I had been sure to have made the coast of Spain, and at least reached to the bay of Cadiz; but my resolutions were, blow which way it would, I would be gone from that horrid place where I was, and leave the rest to fate.
-- The man that had the lance or dart did not fly from them, but the rest did; however, as the two crea-tures ran directly into the water, they did not offer to fall upon any of the negroes, but plunged themselves into the sea, and swam about, as if they had come for their diver-sion; at last one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition, and bade Xury load both the others.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest of the family; but he was affected by a recommendation of such a nature at such a time, and he promised to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable.
-- Four bed-rooms and two garrets formed the rest of the house.
-- An opportunity was soon to be given to the Dashwoods of debating on the rest of the children, as Sir John would not leave the house without securing their promise of dining at the park the next day.
-- She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.
-- But when this passed away, when her spirits became collected, when she saw that to the perfect good-breeding of the gentleman, he united frankness and vivacity, and above all, when she heard him declare, that of music and dancing he was passionately fond, she gave him such a look of approbation as secured the largest share of his discourse to herself for the rest of his stay.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The theatre, the halls, the parties, the ways of rest and the paths of song--these are mine in the night."
-- "Well, you rest a little while I smoke," he said, rising, and then he foolishly went to the forward platform of the car and left the game as it stood.
-- In the shade of a green pagoda a bebuttoned officer of the law was resting, his arms folded, his club at rest in his belt.
-- The rest of the company isn't going to be any good.
-- The rest of them aren't as good as you are."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
-- He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate-books and robber-books, and ev-ery gang that was high-toned had it.
-- Living in a house and sleeping in a bed pulled on me pretty tight mostly, but before the cold weather I used to slide out and sleep in the woods some-times, and so that was a rest to me.
-- I says look at my hat if you call it a hat but the lid raises up and the rest of it goes down till it's below my chin, and then it ain't rightly a hat at all, but more like my head was shoved up through a jint o' stove- pipe.
-- Here's a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet's got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a hold of a prowling, thiev-ing, infernal, white-shirted free nigger, and ' Pap was agoing on so he never noticed where his old lim-ber legs was taking him to, so he went head over heels over the tub of salt pork and barked both shins, and the rest of his speech was all the hottest kind of language mostly hove at the nigger and the gov- ment, though he give the tub some, too, all along, here and there.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two little old men, each with his own wig back on his own head, shook hands and swore to be good friends for the rest of their lives.
-- Thus having settled their accounts, they shook hands and swore to be good friends for the rest of their lives.
-- "Let us stop here a while," said the Fox, "to eat a bite and rest for a few hours.
-- Poor Pinocchio!The rest of the night he had to spend with one foot through the door and the other one in the air.
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