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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For several minutes the silence remained unbroken till the law student became almost paralyzed with embarrassment, and was equally afraid to go or stay or speak a word.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I trembled violently at his exordium, and my father continued 'I confess, my son, that I have always looked forward to your marriage with our dear Elizabeth as the tie of our domestic comfort and the stay of my declining years.
-- But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The war, goose!The war's going to start any day, and you don't suppose any of us would stay in college with awar going on, do you?"
-- "Don't it look to you like she would of asked us to stay for supper?"
-- And it'll be ten o'clockbefore Boyd gets a chance to tell her that it wouldn't have been honorable for any of us to stay in college after the waythe Chancellor talked to you and me.
-- The twins had been at home, freshly expelled fromthe University of Virginia, at the time the Troop was organized and they had joined enthusiastically; but after theshooting episode, two months ago, their mother had packed them off to the state university, with orders to stay there.
-- Huccome you din' ast dem ter stay fer supper, Miss Scarlett?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know what you're a going to say, Pip; stay a bit!I don't deny that your sister comes the Mo-gul over us, now and again.
-- There was a delicious sense of cleaning-up and making a quiet pause before going on in life afresh, in our village on Saturday nights, which stimulated Joe to dare to stay out half an hour longer on Saturdays than at other times.
-- What with the birthday visitors, and what with the cards, and what with the fight, my stay had lasted so long, that when I neared home the light on the spit of sand off the point on the marshes was gleaming against a black night-sky, and Joe's furnace was flinging a path of fire across the road.
-- "Us two being now alone," resumed Joe, "and me having the intentions and abilities to stay not many minutes more, I will now conclude--leastways begin--to mention what have led to my having had the present honor.
-- Chapter XXVIIIIt was clear that I must repair to our town next day, and in the first flow of my repentance, it was equally clear that I must stay at Joe's.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All went right: then the fox said, 'When you come to the castle where the bird is, I will stay with the princess at the door, and you will ride in and speak to the king; and when he sees that it is the right horse, he will bring out the bird; but you must sit still, and say that you want to look at it, to see whether it is the true golden bird; and when you get it into your hand, ride away.'
-- Then he did not stay to think about the mat-ter, but paid what was asked, and his brothers were given up, and went on with him towards their home.
-- There was great joy at their coming, and the prince flew to meet them, and lifted the maid from her horse, thinking she was the one who was to be his wife; and she was led upstairs to the royal chamber; but the true princess was told to stay in the court below.
-- 'We are not prepared,' said they, 'to stay with a man who kills seven at one stroke.'
-- When he came to the outskirts of the forest, he said to his followers: 'Just stay waiting here, I alone will soon finish off the giants.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family.
-- This I was afterwards told, for I durst not stay to see the issue of the adventure; but ran as fast as I could the way I first went, and then climbed up a steep hill, which gave me some prospect of the country.
-- There is indeed a perpetual commerce between this king-dom and the great empire of Japan; and it is very probable, that the Japanese authors may have given some account of the struldbrugs; but my stay in Japan was so short, and I was so entirely a stranger to the language, that I was not qualified to make any inquiries.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jupe, stay here a moment.
-- Consequently, if ever you come again into any room in this house, you will make a short stay in it if you don't behave towards that lady in your most respectful manner.
-- If what you have got to say can be said before a born lady, this lady will stay where she is.'
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