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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, therefore, I shall go back to Phthia; it will be much better for me to return home with my ships, for I will not stay here dishonoured to gather gold and substance for you.'
-- And Agamemnon answered, 'Fly if you will, I shall make you no prayers to stay you.
-- And Minerva said, 'I come from heaven, if you will hear me, to bid you stay your anger.
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- Even as thou didst hear me aforetime when I prayed, and didst press hardly upon the Achaeans, so hear me yet again, and stay this fearful pestilence from the Danaans.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But excepting two odd incidents, the circumstances of his stay until the extraordinary day of the club festival may be passed over very cursorily.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But during these earlier days of my stay they broke the Law only furtively and after dark; in the daylight there was a general atmosphere of respect for its multifarious pro-hibitions.
-- It is a curious thing, by the bye, for which I am quite unable to account, that these weird creatures the females, I mean had in the earlier days of my stay an instinctive sense of their own repulsive clumsiness, and displayed in consequence a more than human regard for the decency and decorum of extensive costume.
-- Then I just re-alised what had happened sufficiently to stay my fingers on the revolver.
-- My memory of the Law, of the two dead sailors, of the ambuscades of the darkness, of the body in the canebrake, haunted me; and, unnatural as it seems, with my return to mankind came, instead of that confidence and sympathy I had expected, a strange en-hancement of the uncertainty and dread I had experienced during my stay upon the island.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They may stay there for a night, or ten nights, or an hour.
-- 'Stay there,' shouted the monkeys, 'till we have killed thy friends, and later we will play with thee if the Poison-Peo-ple leave thee alive.'
-- Stay you sssso!'
-- In one, the cow-buffaloes stood with their calves in the center, and glared and pawed, ready, if a wolf would only stay still, to charge down and trample the life out of him.
-- 'By the Bull that bought me,' said Mowgli, who was try-ing to get at the shoulder, 'must I stay babbling to an old ape all noon?
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：
-- The blood of chiefs is in my veins, where it must stay forever.
-- They will make him pet-ticoats, and bid him stay in the wigwam with the women, for he is no longer to be trusted with the business of a man.'
-- 'Stay lady stay,' called Gamut, after the unconscious Cora.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I agreed to go over on the next day but one, and to stay in Paris till I had achieved something.
-- For a fortnight it was necessary that someone should stay with him all night, and she took turns at watching with her husband.
-- I persuaded him to stay the night with me, and I put him into my own bed.
-- Their career was devoid of adventure, if by adventure you mean unexpected or thrilling incident, for their days were occupied in the pursuit of enough money to get a night's lodging and such food as would stay the pangs of hunger.
-- He would turn up in Papeete every few months and stay a little while; he'd get money out of someone or other and then disappear again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile Top had returned at his master's call, and had regained the shore: but he could not stay quiet; he plunged in among the tall grass, and guided by instinct, he appeared to follow some invisible being which was slipping along under the surface of the water.
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