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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, my lord, we have nothing to detain us further."
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 third day from the capture of the fort was drawing to a close, but the business of the narrative must still detain the reader on the shores of the 'holy lake.'
-- 'This is neither the place nor the occasion to detain you with selfish wishes,' he added; 'but what heart loaded like mine would not wish to cast its burden?
-- these Delawares have their laws, which forbid them to detain you; but I I have no such ob-ligation.
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：
-- When, saying I was tired, I rose to go, Mrs. Strickland made no attempt to detain me.
-- Neither wit nor whisky could detain him then.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Pshaw," said he, "we left Richmond without permission from the authorities!It will be hard if we don't manage to get away some day or other from a place where certainly no one will detain us!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll not detain you any longer now,' he said, putting a crown into Kit's hand, and looking towards the Notary.
-- 'They went away,' he thought, 'on foot with nobody to speak to them or say a kind word at parting, and they'll come back, drawn by four horses, with this rich gentleman for their friend, and all their troubles over!She'll forget that she taught me to write 'Whatever Kit thought about after this, took some time to think of, for he stood gazing up the lines of shining lamps, long after the chaise had disappeared, and did not return into the house until the Notary and Mr Abel, who had themselves lingered outside till the sound of the wheels was no longer distinguishable, had several times wondered what could possibly detain him.
-- I'll not detain you an instant longer, on any account, Kit.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dissatisfied with her behavior, they did not detain her.
-- "Why did I not detain her?"
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne looked again; her heart sunk within her; and abruptly turning round, she was hurrying back, when the voices of both her sisters were raised to detain her; a third, almost as well known as Willoughby's, joined them in begging her to stop, and she turned round with surprise to see and welcome Edward Ferrars.
-- Elinor did not offer to detain him; and they parted, with a very earnest assurance on HER side of her unceasing good wishes for his happiness in every change of situation that might befall him; on HIS, with rather an attempt to return the same good will, than the power of expressing it.
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