retire是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 退休， 引退； 退却， 撤退； 就寝，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：
-- He went up again on deck, and after explaining in a few words to Lord Glenarvan how things stood, begged him to retire to his cabin, with the rest of the passengers.
-- There are times when I must be master on board, and retire you must."
-- But before six days were over, the DUNCAN would anchor in Twofold Bay, and twenty-four hours after her crew would reach the other shore of the Snowy River; and should the passage still remain impracticable, the convicts at any rate would be forced to retire before the increased strength.
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：
-- We talked little, and I for one was glad when the meal was over and we were able to retire into the modern billiard-room and smoke a cigarette.
-- Howev-er, if it suits you, we will retire early to-night, and perhaps things may seem more cheerful in the morning.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But there is no necessity for you to retire at all,' com-plained the general, 'as far as I know.'
-- ' he appealed to his spouse for help 'you must really ' 'Not I not I!I retire from all responsibility,' said Liza-betha Prokofievna, with a wave of the hand.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My friends,' said he, 'is there any man bold enough to venture the Trojans, and cut off some strag-gler, or us news of what the enemy mean to do whether they will stay here by the ships away from the city, or whether, now that they have worsted the Achaeans, they will retire within their walls.
-- Will they stay here by the ships and away from the city, or now that they have worsted the Achaeans, will they retire within their walls?'
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：
-- Deeply regretting this weakness on the part of a sister muse, we shall at once retire from her sa-cred precincts, within the proper limits of our own humble vocation.
-- Magua had waited on the mountain until a safe moment to retire presented itself, when he had descended, and taken the route along the western side of the Horican in direc-tion of the Canadas.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- again asked Pencroft, unable to make up his mind to retire from the spot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, when they had played a great many rubbers and drawn pretty freely upon the case-bottle, Mr Quilp warned his lady to retire to rest, and that submissive wife complying, and being followed by her indignant mother, Mr Swiveller fell asleep.
-- What rebellious thoughts of the cool river, and some shady bathing-place beneath willow trees with branches dipping in the water, kept tempting and urging that sturdy boy, who, with his shirt-collar unbuttoned and flung back as far as it could go, sat fanning his flushed face with a spelling-book, wishing himself a whale, or a tittlebat, or a fly, or anything but a boy at school on that hot, broiling day!Heat!ask that other boy, whose seat being nearest to the door gave him opportunities of gliding out into the garden and driving his companions to madness by dipping his face into the bucket of the well and then rolling on the grass ask him if there were ever such a day as that, when even the bees were diving deep down into the cups of flowers and stopping there, as if they had made up their minds to retire from business and be manufacturers of honey no more.
-- 'Have the goodness to retire to your own room, and not to leave it without permission.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true that the royal speech at the opening of such session virtually said, My lords and gentlemen, you have a considerable stroke of work to do, and you will please to retire to your respective chambers, and discuss, How not to do it.
-- I am hurt that my daughter, seated in the hum lap of fortune, should mope and retire and proclaim herself unequal to her destiny.
-- 'I say, gracefully departed, because it was graceful to retire without alarming a lady.
-- 'The withered chaplet my dear,' said Flora, with great enjoyment, 'is then perished the column is crumbled and the pyramid is standing upside down upon its what's-his-name call it not giddiness call it not weakness call it not folly I must now retire into privacy and look upon the ashes of departed joys no more but taking a further liberty of paying for the pastry which has formed the humble pretext of our interview will for ever say Adieu!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was Jo's fa-vorite refuge, and here she loved to retire with half a dozen russets and a nice book, to enjoy the quiet and the society of a pet rat who lived near by and didn't mind her a particle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And so be able to retire on your property, and do the gen-teel: as I mean to, in the very next leap-year but four that ever comes, and the forty-second Tuesday in Trinity-week,' said Charley Bates.
-- Oliver, who watched the old lady anxiously, observed that she was alarmed by these appearances; and so in truth, was he; but seeing that she affected to make light of them, he endeavoured to do the same, and they so far succeeded, that when Rose was persuaded by her aunt to retire for the night, she was in better spirits; and appeared even in better health: assuring them that she felt certain she should rise in the morning, quite well.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this they appeared very thankful, and I accordingly set them at liberty, and bade them retire into the woods, to the place whence they came, and I would leave them some firearms, some ammunition, and some directions how they should live very well if they thought fit.
-- I found they stopped, but did not immediately retreat; whereupon, remembering that I had been told that the fiercest creatures were terrified at the voice of a man, I caused all the company to halloo as loud as they could; and I found the notion not altogether mistaken; for upon our shout they began to retire and turn about.
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