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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is more than probable, my boy; for if their stay was prolonged, and above all, if they were still here, some accident would have at last betrayed their presence."
-- "The boat has remained by itself for one day at the sources of the Mercy," replied Gideon Spilett; "it may just as well stay there two days!As yet, we have had no reason to think that the island is infested by thieves!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Me!I stay here of course.
-- 'Stay here of course,' the child had said in answer to my question, 'I always do!'
-- 'I must not stay a moment,' she returned, 'grandfather has been taken very ill.
-- 'I'm not going to stay at all,' faltered Nell.
-- 'Aye, Sir,' cried the old man, 'and the stay and comfort of my life.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The relations of Nekhludoff to Katiousha were the following: Nekhludoff first met Katiousha when he went to stay one summer out at the estate of his aunts in order that he might quietly prepare his thesis on the private ownership of land.
-- In the depth of his soul he knew that he had to depart; that his stay at his aunts was unnecessary, that nothing good could come of it, but it was so joyous and pleasant that he did not heed it, and remained.
-- "No, we will stay here, Dmitri Ivanovich," answered Katiousha, laboriously, as though after hard, pleasant exertion, breathing with her full breast and looking straight in his eyes, with her submissive, chaste, loving and slightly squinting eyes.
-- "In your place I should stay here even longer.
-- "I am a convict, while you are a lord, a prince, and needn't stay here to soil your hands.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I did not stay to look, I promise you: I retreated again, and when my second match had ended, I struck my third.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'm quite content to stay here only I am so hot and thirsty!'
-- 'I do believe,' said Alice at last, 'that they live in the same house!I wonder I never thought of that before But I can't stay there long.
-- 'You've only a few yards to go,' he said, 'down the hill and over that little brook, and then you'll be a Queen But you'll stay and see me off first?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll stay here a bit," he continued.
-- J. T.P.P.S. Hawkins may stay one night with his mother.
-- I had thought up to that moment of the adventures before me, not at all of the home that I was leaving; and now, at sight of this clumsy stranger, who was to stay here in my place beside my mother, I had my first attack of tears.
-- Six fellows were to stay on board, and the remaining thirteen, including Silver, began to embark.
-- You can stay here and find Flint's money for yourself,' they says.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, if electricity does not furnish me with air to breathe, it works at least the powerful pumps that are stored in spacious reservoirs, and which enable me to prolong at need, and as long as I will, my stay in the depths of the sea.
-- The Lascar pretended that six years before, during a stay at Vanikoro, he had seen two Europeans that belonged to some vessels that had run aground on the reefs some years ago.
-- Most impatient to pass through Captain Nemo's tunnel, I could not stay in one place, so came to breathe the fresh night air.
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