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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They came by rail to Balloch, and walked the rest of the way to Luss."
-- They had only stopped once, to rest and snatch a hurried meal to recruit their strength.
-- "No, my brave boy, rest yourself.
-- None of the party knew whether the rest were still alive, whether one or another were not already lying in the depths of some abyss.
-- He handled him with the most exquisite delicacy, and his treatment so revived the lad's strength, that it was soon evident that a few hours' rest would set him all right.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One, it is said, died that very night of what he had seen, and the other twain were but broken men for the rest of their days.
-- However, our conjectures were set at rest by a visit from Stapleton himself that very after-noon.
-- He would withdraw all op-position upon his part if I would promise for three months to let the matter rest and to be content with cultivating the lady's friendship during that time without claiming her love.
-- I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent, for when Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland's skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive.
-- And I have also communicat-ed with my faithful Cartwright, who would certainly have pined away at the door of my hut, as a dog does at his mas-ter's grave, if I had not set his mind at rest about my safety.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sell them,' said he, 'and then take seven thousand five hundred roubles to the office, give them to the cashier, and bring me back the rest of the ten thousand, without looking in anywhere on the way; look sharp, I shall be waiting for you.'
-- This is the reason why he was so unwilling to take lunch (on the morning upon which we took up this narrative) with the rest of his family.
-- That's a fitting crown to the rest of the story.
-- At last I took to reading up interesting things on purpose to pass them on to the little ones, and this went on for all the rest of my time there, three years.
-- The heart is the great thing, and the rest is all rub-bish though one must have sense as well.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away.
-- 'On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away.
-- When the thigh-bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon the spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off: then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.
-- The rest now took their seats and kept to their own sever-al places, but Thersites still went on wagging his unbridled tongue a man of many words, and those unseemly; a monger of sedition, a railer against all who were in author-ity, who cared not what he said, so that he might set the Achaeans in a laugh.
-- When the thigh-bones were burned, and they had tasted the in-ward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off; then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made no answer, and had turned his face away from her again, and Mrs. Hall, feeling that her conversational advances were ill-timed, laid the rest of the table things in a quick staccato and whisked out of the room.
-- He worked with the lamp close to him, and the green shade threw a brilliant light upon his hands, and upon the frame and wheels, and left the rest of the room shadowy.
-- There was a noise of hobnails on the bricks in the bar, and Mrs. Hall had very reluctantly to leave the rest of his soliloquy.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next morning the veterinary--that is, the animal doctor--declared that he would be lame for the rest of his life.
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