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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Light movable desks, made to slide in and out at will, allowed one to rest one's book while reading.
-- This short rest seemed delicious to me; there was nothing wanting but the charm of conversation; but, impossible to speak, impossible to answer, I only put my great copper head to Conseil's.
-- It was the second companion he had lost since our arrival on board, and what a death!That friend, crushed, stifled, bruised by the dreadful arms of a poulp, pounded by his iron jaws, would not rest with his comrades in the peaceful coral cemetery!In the midst of the struggle, it was the despairing cry uttered by the unfortunate man that had torn my heart.
-- The perfect rest of the water greatly helped the operation.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the rest of time she was established on the sand, built over a chasm, and, in spite of all her vanity and securities, any common maid-servant of positive, robust temper could fling her down this bottomless pit of insufficiency, by the slightest movement of jeering or contempt.
-- Even in that he seemed to belong to her, rather than to the rest of the company; though, he thought to himself, he was always well washed, at any rate at the neck and ears.
-- It doesn't rest with me to decide on their existence.
-- Only you won't be conscious of what actually is: you want the lie that will match the rest of your furniture."
-- She trailed off to the rest of the company, only turning to wave her handkerchief to him, and to chuckle with laughter, singing out:"Good-bye, good-bye, little boy."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time stagnates here: we must surely have retired to rest at eight!
-- 'There you are, at your idle tricks again!The rest of them do earn their bread you live on my charity!Put your trash away, and find something to do.
-- Well, Mrs. Dean, it will be a charitable deed to tell me something of my neighbours: I feel I shall not rest if I go to bed; so be good enough to sit and chat an hour.
-- The worthy woman bustled off, and I crouched nearer the fire; my head felt hot, and the rest of me chill: moreover, I was excited, almost to a pitch of foolishness, through my nerves and brain.
-- But, with the help of Satan, I shall make you swallow the carving knife, Nelly!You needn't laugh; for I've just crammed Kenneth, head downmost, in the Blackhorse marsh; and two is the same as one and I want to kill some of you: I shall have no rest till I do!
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 茫聙聙茫聙聙茫聙聙PART ONEThe Old Buccaneer1 The Old Sea-dog at the "Admiral Benbow"QUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.
-- She would not, she declared, lose money that belonged to her fatherless boy; "If none of the rest of you dare," she said, "Jim and I dare.
-- "Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest," he cried.
-- This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber, but half-heartedly, I thought, and with half an eye to their own danger all the time, while the rest stood irresolute on the road.
-- One, tailing out behind the rest, was a lad that had gone from the hamlet to Dr. Livesey's; the rest were revenue officers, whom he had met by the way, and with whom he had had the intelligence to return at once.
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