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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Pardon my intrusion," said Cuss, and then the door closed and cut Mrs. Hall off from the rest of the conversation.
-- "The fact is, I'm all here head, hands, legs, and all the rest of it, but it happens I'm invisible.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rest I did not hear.
-- These sickening scoundrels had merely intended to keep me back, to fool me with their display of confidence, and presently to fall upon me with a fate more horrible than death, with torture; and after torture the most hideous degradation it is possible to conceive, to send me off a lost soul, a beast, to the rest of their Comus rout.
-- The voice in the dark be-gan intoning a mad litany, line by line, and I and the rest to repeat it.
-- The rest stood silent watching.
-- The rest of the Beast People had vanished from the beach.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between.
-- Limmershin gave a long list of them, for he said that Kotick spent five seasons exploring, with a four months' rest each year at Novastoshnah, when the holluschick-ie used to make fun of him and his imaginary islands.
-- Then Teddy's mother came in with a very white face, and saw what was left of Nag, and Rikki-tikki dragged him-self to Teddy's bedroom and spent half the rest of the night shaking himself tenderly to find out whether he really was broken into forty pieces, as he fancied.
-- (Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the song is lost.)
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rest have disappeared, either from the regions in which their fathers dwelt, or altogether from the earth.
-- 'Does he think when a hunter sees a part of the creature', he can't tell where the rest of him should be!'
-- But, happily, we have fallen in with a hunter, he whom you hear talking to the singer, that is acquainted with the deerpaths and by-ways of the woods, and who promises to lead us to a place where we may rest securely till the morn-ing.'
-- Rest your weary limbs, then, and open your wallet to eat.
-- Every effort to detect the point most regarded by the runner was completely frustrated by the tremulous glances of his organs, which seemed not to rest a single instant on any particular object, and which, at the same time, could be hardly said to move.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certain it is, his voice The Legend of Sleepy Hollowresounded far above all the rest of the congregation; and there are peculiar quavers still to be heard in that church, and which may even be heard half a mile off, quite to the opposite side of the mill-pond, on a still Sunday morning, which are said to be legitimately descended from the nose of Ichabod Crane.
-- To look upon its grass-grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And presently Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz produced the work which finally set at rest the misgivings of all lovers of art.
-- The artist has this advantage over the rest of the world, that his friends offer not only their appearance and their character to his satire, but also their work.
-- To look at his pictures you would have thought that Monet, Manet, and the rest of the Impressionists had never been.
-- Strickland's injurious calm robbed Stroeve of the rest of his self-control.
-- The summer came, breathless and sultry, and even at night there was no coolness to rest one's jaded nerves.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cyrus Harding ate a little of the grouse, and the rest was divided among his companions, who found it but a meager breakfast, for they were suffering extremely from hunger.
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