detain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 耽搁, 延迟; 拘留, 扣押，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Say but one affectionate word to me, and tell me there is noth-ing angry or estranged between us, and I will detain you no longer.'
-- It would not detain me, he had a coach in waiting.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The warrant had not come!It was certainly on the way, but as certainly it could not now reach Hong Kong for several days; and, this being the last English territory on Mr. Fogg's route, the robber would escape, unless he could manage to detain him.
-- Yes, but it was still more the fault of the traitor who, in order to separate him from his master, and detain the latter at Hong Kong, had inveigled him into getting drunk!He now saw the detective's trick; and at this moment Mr. Fogg was certainly ruined, his bet was lost, and he himself perhaps arrested and imprisoned!At this thought Passepartout tore his hair.
-- As long as Mr. Fogg was on English ground, it was for my interest to detain him there until my warrant of arrest arrived.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Very well, then,' concluded Ilya Petrovitch, 'we will not detain you.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, I was unwilling to put thedirection-card on there, lest any of my landlord's family shouldfathom what I was doing, and detain me; so I said to the youngman that I would be glad if he would stop for a minute, when hecame to the dead-wall of the King's Bench Prison.
-- As I bent forward,she put her tumbler on my knee to detain me, and said'Oh, Trot,Trot!And so you fancy yourself in love!Do you?'
-- I would have withdrawn, but theDoctor made a gesture to detain me, and I remained.
-- We will not detain you.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And not all that could be urged to detain her succeeded.
-- It need not detain us long.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sparsit saw him detain her with his encircling arm, and heard him then and there, within her (Mrs. Sparsit's) greedy hearing, tell her how he loved her, and how she was the stake for which he ardently desired to play away all that he had in life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There being nothing to detain us, we started on our journey.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear Frederick,' returned the other, 'don't let me detain you; don't sacrifice your inclination to me.'
-- At the same moment, Miss Fanny, in the foreground of a grand pictorial composition, formed by the family, the family equipages, and the family servants, held her sister tight under one arm to detain her on the spot, and with the other arm fanned herself with a distinguished air, and negligently surveyed the lady from head to foot.
-- A limited right of felling and lopping in the woods of Blinkiter Doddles, lay in the son of P. Q. then past his majority, and whom we would call X. Y. but really this was too bad!In the presence of Lord Decimus, to detain the host with chopping our dry chaff of law, was really too bad!Another time!Bar was truly repentant, and would not say another syllable.
-- But, surely, he might not detain Mr Merdle while he assumed his coat?
-- 'But I would not detain you one moment longer,' said Flora, upon whom his condition wrought its effect, though she was quite unconscious of having produced it, 'if you would have the goodness to give your promise as a gentleman that both in going back to Italy and in Italy too you would look for this Mr Blandois high and low and if you found or heard of him make him come forward for the clearing of all parties.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried he, with more feel-ing than politeness; then recollecting himself, 'I will not detain you a minute; but let me, or let the servant go after Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner.
-- * * * * * It may be easily believed, that however little of novelty could be added to their fears, hopes, and conjectures, on this interesting subject, by its repeated discussion, no oth-er could detain them from it long, during the whole of the journey.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What else can detain him at Norland?"
-- But Mrs. Smith must be obliged; and her business will not detain you from us long I hope."
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