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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was impossible to refuse an invitation given with such heart, and Miss Grant and her brother consented to stay till Lord Glenarvan returned.
-- "Oh, my dear Paganel, you must stay with the reserve corps," replied the Major.
-- It is for me to go, and for him to stay by you."
-- But Mangles felt there was no alternative, and all he could do was to keep the crew ready to alter the sail at any moment, and stay in the shrouds himself watching the tempest.
-- "But we must not stay here," he added, "without attempting anything.
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：
-- 'Surely you will stay and have some dinner?'
-- I would stay to show you over the house, but Barrymore will be a better guide than I. Good-bye, and never hesitate night or day to send for me if I can be of service.'
-- My wife and I will be happy, Sir Henry, to stay with you until you have made your fresh arrangements, but you will understand that under the new conditions this house will require a considerable staff.'
-- I resisted all pressure to stay for lunch, and I set off at once upon my return journey, taking the grass-grown path by which we had come.
-- 'Why should I stay here alone?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, but you can't stay here.
-- I don't think I should stay even if they were to invite me.
-- The old women would not let the children stay in the room; but they all collected out-side the window each morning, if only for a moment, and shouted 'Bon jour, notre bonne Marie!'
-- On one of the first days of my stay in Switzerland, I was strolling about alone and miserable, when I came upon the children rushing noisily out of school, with their slates and bags, and books, their games, their laughter and shouts and my soul went out to them.
-- 'You will have to excuse very much in my husband, if you stay with us,' said Nina Alexandrovna; 'but he will not disturb you often.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more.
-- When it was dark I set by my camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty well satisfied; but by and by it got sort of lone-some, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.
-- Well, I couldn't stay up there forever; so at last I got down, but I kept in the thick woods and on the lookout all the time.
-- I went out in the woods and cooked a supper, and I had about made up my mind I would stay there all night when I hear a PLUNKETY- PLUNK, PLUNKETY-PLUNK, and says to myself, horses coming; and next I hear people's voices.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I stay here the same thing will happen to me which happens to all other boys and girls.
-- "I love you, too," answered the Fairy, "and if you wish to stay with me, you may be my little brother and I'll be your good little sister."
-- And if it had not been for a very lucky chance, he probably would have had to stay there longer.
-- "That we have made you stay out of school to come with us.
-- Will you come with us, or do you stay here?"
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