retain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 保持; 保有; 聘请(律师)，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：
-- All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
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：
-- 'To retain the fort is now impossible,' said his liberal en-emy; 'it is necessary to the interests of my master that it should be destroyed; but as for yourselves and your brave comrades, there is no privilege dear to a soldier that shall be denied.'
-- It was then openly announced that hostil-ities must cease Munro having signed a treaty by which the place was to be yielded to the enemy, with the morn-ing; the garrison to retain their arms, the colors and their baggage, and, consequently, according to military opinion, their honor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The upper part of the mouth of the cetacean was, indeed, provided on both sides with eight hundred horny blades, very elastic, of a fibrous texture, and fringed at the edge like great combs, at which the teeth, six feet long, served to retain the thousands of animalculae, little fish, and molluscs, on which the whale fed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again, it is very often observed that, if the sperm whale, once struck, is allowed time to rally, he then acts, not so often with blind rage, as with wilful, deliberate designs of destruction to his pursuers; nor is it without conveying some eloquent indication of his character, that upon being attacked he will frequently open his mouth, and retain it in that dread expansion for several consecutive minutes.
-- But these two harpoons, each by its own cord, are both connected with the line; the object being this: to dart them both, if possible, one instantly after the other into the same whale; so that if, in the coming drag, one should draw out, the other may still retain a hold.
-- Into this hole, the end of the second alternating great tackle is then hooked so as to retain a hold upon the blubber, in order to prepare for what follows.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Bingley was very deeply mortified by Darcy's mar-riage; but as she thought it advisable to retain the right of visiting at Pemberley, she dropt all her resentment; was fonder than ever of Georgiana, almost as attentive to Darcy as heretofore, and paid off every arrear of civility to Eliza-beth.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely, after doing so, she cannot be imagined liable to any impression of sorrow or of joy on his account she cannot be interested in any thing that befalls him. She would not be so weak as to throw away the comfort of a child, and yet retain the anxiety of a parent!"
-- Edward was allowed to retain the privilege of first comer, and Colonel Brandon therefore walked every night to his old quarters at the Park; from whence he usually returned in the morning, early enough to interrupt the lovers' first tete-a-tete before breakfast.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hurstwood, being an older man, could scarcely be said to retain the fire of youth, though he did possess a passion warm and unreasoning.
-- She thought she had to make some sort of showing in order to retain his interest.
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