reserve是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 保存; 预定，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, turn to that paper, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the prisoner expressly said that his legal advisers instructed him altogether to reserve his defence?"
-- "Now, follow that passage with your eye, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the prisoner expressly said that he was instructed by his legal advisers wholly to reserve his defence?
-- As he was so communicative, I felt that reserve on my part would be a bad return unsuited to our years.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I shall not anticipate the reader with further de-scriptions of this kind, because I reserve them for a greater work, which is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through along series of princes; with a particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design at present being only to relate such events and transactions as happened to the public or to myself during a residence of about nine months in that empire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Art or nature though, the original stock of Louisa's character or the graft of circumstances upon it, her curious reserve did baffle, while it stimulated, one as sagacious as Mrs. Sparsit.
-- If she had asserted any influence over him beyond her plain faith in the truth and right of what she said; if she had concealed the least doubt or irresolution, or had harboured for the best purpose any reserve or pretence; if she had shown, or felt, the lightest trace of any sensitiveness to his ridicule or his astonishment, or any remonstrance he might offer; he would have carried it against her at this point.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One thing, however, caused us great uneasiness--our water reserve was already half exhausted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old influence of her presence and her stern strong voice, so gathered about her son, that he felt conscious of a renewal of the timid chill and reserve of his childhood.
-- 'You knew my father infinitely better than I ever knew him; and his reserve with me yielded to you.
-- He felt himself quite lost in wonder at the manner of the man, and that the probability of his daughter's having had a reserve as to her family history, should be so far out of his mind.
-- With his hat thrown back upon his ears as if his wiry prongs of hair had darted up like springs and cast it off, with his jet-black beads of eyes inquisitively sharp, with the fingers of his right hand in his mouth that he might bite the nails, and with the fingers of his left hand in reserve in his pocket for another course, Mr Pancks cast his shadow through the glass upon the books and papers.
-- 'You must know my dear,' said Flora, 'but that I have no doubt you know already not only because I have already thrown it out in a general way but because I feel I carry it stamped in burning what's his names upon my brow that before I was introduced to the late Mr F. I had been engaged to Arthur Clennam Mr Clennam in public where reserve is necessary Arthur here we were all in all to one another it was the morning of life it was bliss it was frenzy it was everything else of that sort in the highest degree, when rent asunder we turned to stone in which capacity Arthur went to China and I became the statue bride of the late Mr F.'Flora, uttering these words in a deep voice, enjoyed herself immensely.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was rather surprised, therefore, when the silence remained unbroken, and Jo assumed a patronizing air, which decidedly aggra-vated Meg, who in turn assumed an air of dignified reserve and devoted herself to her mother.
-- They did feel it, yet neither spoke of it, for often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The particulars I reserve till we meet; it is enough to know they are discovered.
-- It was owing to him, to his reserve and want of proper consider-ation, that Wickham's character had been so misunderstood, and consequently that he had been received and noticed as he was.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not be silent when such points were introduced, and she had neither shyness nor reserve in their discussion.
-- His manners, though serious, were mild; and his reserve appeared rather the result of some oppression of spirits than of any natural gloominess of temper.
-- Elinor needed little observation to perceive that her reserve was a mere calmness of manner with which sense had nothing to do.
-- His coldness and reserve mortified her severely; she was vexed and half angry; but resolving to regulate her behaviour to him by the past rather than the present, she avoided every appearance of resentment or displeasure, and treated him as she thought he ought to be treated from the family connection.
-- He received the kindest welcome from her; and shyness, coldness, reserve could not stand against such a reception.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the contrary, there was a fine reserve in his manner toward the entire domestic economy of his life which was all that is comprehended by the popular term, gentlemanly.
-- Now, however, in her seventeenth year, Jessica had developed a certain amount of reserve and independence which was not inviting to the richest form of parental devotion.
-- He was more generally known than most others in the same circle, and was looked upon as some one whose reserve covered a mine of influence and solid financial prosperity.
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