stay是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 逗留； 保持vt. 停止， 延缓n. 逗留， 停留，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Ghost was greatly pleased to find him in this mood, and looked upon him with such favour, that he begged like a boy to be allowed to stay until the guests departed.
-- Indeed, the Spirit did not stay for anything, but went straight on, as to the end just now de-sired, until besought by Scrooge to tarry for a moment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stay there, if you please, a little moment.'
-- The task of re-calling him from the vagrancy into which he always sank when he had spoken, was like recalling some very weak per-son from a swoon, or endeavouring, in the hope of some 58 A tale of two citiesdisclosure, to stay the spirit of a fast-dying man.
-- Yes, Sydney, I have had enough of this style of life, with no other as a change from it; I feel that it is a pleasant thing for a man to have a home when he feels inclined to go to it (when he doesn't, he can stay away), and I feel that Miss Manette will tell well in any station, and will always do me credit.
-- 'Stay long enough, and I shall knit 'BARSAD' before you go.'
-- His latent uneasiness had been, that bad aims were being worked out in his own unhappy land by bad instru-344 A tale of two citiesments, and that he who could not fail to know that he was better than they, was not there, trying to do something to stay bloodshed, and assert the claims of mercy and human-ity.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here, then, we will stay for the present.
-- If I could but once take a leap up there, my body might stay here on the steps for what I care.'
-- They offered to let her stay at the palace, and lead a happy life; but she begged to have a little carriage with a horse in front, and for a small pair of shoes; then, she said, she would again go forth in the wide world and look for Kay.
-- Set her down by the large bush with red berries, standing in the snow; don't stay talking, but hasten back as fast as possible.'
-- He, and all sensible folks, were obliged to stay within doors the window-shutters and doors were closed the whole day; it looked as if the whole house slept, or there was no one at home.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Are you going to stay in town long?"
-- "No, please, let us stay here."
-- Anna did not mean to stay to supper, but the master of the house began to press her to do so.
-- Anna Arkadyevna did not stay to supper, but went home.
-- And society's so constituted that the harder they work, the greater the profit of the merchants and landowners, while they stay beasts of burden to the end.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the detective's hopes and wishes were now centred on Hong Kong; for the steamer's stay at Singapore would be too brief to enable him to take any steps there.
-- Happily, his stay there was but brief.
-- cried Colonel Proctor; "but we are not going to stay here, I imagine, and take root in the snow?"
-- "And I guess you'll stay there too," added the American insolently.
-- This mast held an iron stay upon which to hoist a jib-sail.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dean Silva was to be seen beseeching him, then leading him out of the room, with the assistance of two professors and a football tackle, and in the hush of a joyful horror Clif grunted to Martin: "Here's where I get mine!And the damn' fool promised to stay sober!"
-- Mr. and Mrs. Tozer said they were all to be calm, and of course Bert didn't mean-- But really, it was true; they had to be sensible, and how Mr. Arrowsmith could expect to support a wife-- The conference lasted till nine-thirty, which, as Mr. Tozer pointed out, was everybody's bedtime, and except for the five-minute discussion as to whether Miss Ada Quist was to stay to supper, and the debate on the saltiness of this last cornbeef, they clave faithfully to the inquiry as to whether Martin and Leora were engaged.
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