retirement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 退休， 引退； 退隐，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Keeping his place of retirement very close, that he may not be visited too often by affectionate grandsons and their devoted friends, eh?'
-- These conditions being arranged, he was removed one evening to his new abode, and enjoyed, in common with nine other gentlemen, and two ladies, the privilege of being taken to his place of retirement in one of Royalty's own carriages.
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