hold是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 拿着； 保有； 托住； 举行； 继续n. 握住； 船舱，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In another moment the law student was enlightened as to the cause of their hilarity; he felt the full force of the contrast between his equipage and one of the smartest broughams in Paris; a coachman, with powdered hair, seemed to find it difficult to hold a pair of spirited horses, who stood chafing the bit.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.
-- I knew well therefore what would be my father's feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination.
-- You are forbidden to write to hold a pen; yet one word from you, dear Victor, is necessary to calm our ap-prehensions.
-- The patriarchal lives of my protectors caused these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.
-- But it is this gloom which appears to have taken so strong a hold of your mind that I wish to dissipate.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She don't hold herself in likesome girls do."
-- Scarlett obeyed, bracing herself and catching firm hold of one of the bedposts.
-- Really, it took a lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.
-- "You want to hold Sissy back, because you know she'sgoing to be prettier than you in a year or so."
-- And, besides, Beatrice Tarleton never willingly permitted anyone, black or white, to hold reinswhen her arms were out of slings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After darkly looking at his leg and me several times, he came closer to my tombstone, took me by both arms, and tilted me back as far as he could hold me; so that his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his.
-- I find it wery hard to hold that young man off of your inside.
-- At the same time, he hugged his shuddering body in both his arms,--clasping himself, as if to hold himself together,--and limped towards the low church wall.
-- She concluded by throwing me--I often served as a connubial missile--at Joe, who, glad to get hold of me on any terms, passed me on into the chimney and quietly fenced me up there with his great leg.
-- Curse this iron on my sore leg!Give us hold of the file, boy."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then thought he to himself, 'It will be a very droll thing to bring away such a fine bird in this shabby cage'; so he opened the door and took hold of it and put it into the golden cage.
-- Then the old fox came once more, and scolded him for not following his advice; otherwise no evil would have be-fallen him: 'Yet,' said he, 'I cannot leave you here, so lay hold of my tail and hold fast.'
-- said he, 'I have this load to carry: to be sure it is silver, but it is so heavy that I can't hold up my head, and you must know it hurts my shoulder sadly.'
-- Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon.'
-- What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl, so very beautiful that the king could not cease look-ing on it for joy, and said he would hold a great feast and make merry, and show the child to all the land.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They found 17by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up, with great dexterity, one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.
-- In one of these cells were several globes, or balls, of a most ponderous metal, about the bigness of our heads, and requiring a strong hand to lift them: the other cell con-tained a heap of certain black grains, but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of our hands.
-- The parallel sticks secured them and their horses from fall-ing over the stage; and the emperor was so much delighted, that he ordered this entertainment to be repeated several 41days, and once was pleased to be lifted up and give the word of command; and with great difficulty persuaded even the empress herself to let me hold her in her close chair within two yards of the stage, when she was able to take a full view of the whole performance.
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