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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I will stay here, Stephen,' said Rachael, quietly resuming her seat, 'till the bells go Three.
-- Mrs. Sparsit's nerves have been acted upon by this business, and she'll stay here a day or two.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I suppose I may as well stay the night,' said Hilda, pull-ing off her gloves, 'and I'll drive her to town tomorrow.'
-- It looks as if he'd stay to dinner, doesn't it, my Lady?'
-- 'I can't stay long,' she said.
-- 'Oh, I wouldn't stay all that time.
-- 'He'll stay here?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Nothing for me, sir, thank you,' anxiously undrawing the strings of the little bag; 'but if, while you stay here, you could be so kind as to teach my sister cheap ''My child, I'll teach her for nothing,' said the dancing-master, shutting up the bag.
-- 'I was cautioned not to stay there, and so I left the town at once, and since then I have changed about.
-- Clennam so wished he could have done more than stay to dinner so heartily wished he could have found the Flora that had been, or that never had been that he thought the least atonement he could make for the disappointment he almost felt ashamed of, was to give himself up to the family desire.
-- Stay a bit.
-- I had far better stay at home!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman!'
-- He will stay and do his work faithfully as long as he can, and we won't ask for him back a minute sooner than he can be spared.
-- 'Then I'll stay still.
-- But the boy laughed and said pleasantly, though he looked a little startled, 'Don't mind me, stay if you like.'
-- But I don't see what you can do, except get a carriage, or stay here all night,' answered Jo, softly rubbing the poor ankle as she spoke.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor fellow whom Queequeg had handled so roughly, was swept overboard; all hands were in a panic; and to attempt snatching at the boom to stay it, seemed madness.
-- Ah, ye admonitions and warnings!why stay ye not when ye come?
-- The headsman should stay in the bows from first to last; he should both dart the harpoon and the lance, and no rowing whatever should be expected of him, except under circumstances obvious to any fisherman.
-- And not till those seventy breaths are told, will he finally go down to stay out his full term below.
-- he intensely whispered, seizing the helm "gripe your oars, and clutch your souls, now!My God, men, stand by!Shove him off, you Queequeg the whale there! prick him! hit him!Stand up stand up, and stay so!Spring, men pull, men; never mind their backs scrape them! scrape away!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they arrived at the office, he was shut up in a little room by himself, and admonished by Mr. Bumble to stay there, until he came back to fetch him.
-- CHAPTER XIV COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER'S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW'S, WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND Oliver soon recovering from the fainting-fit into which Mr. Brownlow's abrupt exclamation had thrown him, the subject of the picture was carefully avoided, both by the old gentleman and Mrs. Bedwin, in the conversation that ensued: which indeed bore no reference to Oliver's history or prospects, but was confined to such topics as might amuse without exciting him.
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