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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After they were read, I was demanded to swear to the performance of them; first in the manner of my own country, and afterwards in the method prescribed by their laws; which was, to hold my right foot in my left hand, and to place the middle finger of my right hand on the crown of my head, and my thumb on the tip of 44 Gulliver's Travelsmy right ear.
-- I offered to lie down that he might the more conveniently reach my ear, but he chose rather to let me hold him in my hand during our conversation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up.
-- Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact.
-- Whenever a Coketowner felt he was ill-used that is to say, whenever he was not left entirely alone, and it was proposed to hold him accountable for the consequences of any of his acts he was sure to come out with the awful menace, that he would 'sooner pitch his property into the Atlantic.'
-- 'I hold a trust here, Bitzer, under Mr. Bounderby.
-- 'What a stranger can want at the Bank at this time of the evening, unless he comes upon some business for which he is too late, I don't know,' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'but I hold a charge in this establishment from Mr. Bounderby, and I will never shrink from it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Professor Hardwigg was in haste to leave his prison, or rather as he called it, his hospital; but before he attempted to do so, he caught hold of my hand, led me to the quarterdeck of the schooner, took my arm with his left hand, and pointed inland with his right, over the northern part of the bay, to where rose a high two-peaked mountain--a double cone covered with eternal snow.
-- Despite my irritation and despair, I knew how much it cost my uncle to make this proposition, and to hold such conciliatory language.
-- He had indeed just got hold of his crowbar when a loud and welcome hiss was heard.
-- "I hope, indeed, you will, but still, I suppose I may be allowed to--" "You are allowed to hold your tongue," cried Professor Hardwigg, "when you talk so unreasonably as this."
-- At the first sigh which struggled from my bosom, he took hold of my hand.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His hold on life was marvellous.
-- For she only had to hold herself back in sexual intercourse, and let him fin-ish and expend himself without herself coming to the crisis: and then she could prolong the connexion and achieve her orgasm and her crisis while he was merely her tool.
-- 'Oh, in that way!...May I hold your hand for a minute?'
-- But then she soon learnt to hold him, to keep him there inside her when his crisis was over.
-- 'Why, yes, thank you, your Ladyship!I was reared here...' He gave another slight bow, turned, put his hat on, and strode to take hold of the chair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He changed his posture to a sitting one, crying with a triumphant air:'Here I am!See me!Shaken out of destiny's dice-box into the company of a mere smuggler; shut up with a poor little contraband trader, whose papers are wrong, and whom the police lay hold of besides, for placing his boat (as a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position, even by this light and in this place.
-- Little more than a week ago at Marseilles, the face of the pretty girl from whom he had parted with regret, had had an unusual interest for him, and a tender hold upon him, because of some resemblance, real or imagined, to this first face that had soared out of his gloomy life into the bright glories of fancy.
-- Jeremiah watched his manner of adjusting it, with jealous eyes; tried it with his hands, to be sure that he had a firm hold of it; bade him for his life be careful what he was about; and then stole out on tiptoe to open the door for him.
-- Similarly, if the two clever ones had agreed to murder Little Dorrit by candlelight, Mrs Affery, being required to hold the candle, would no doubt have done it.
-- All the ladies in the prison had got hold of the news, and were in the yard.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg stopped lecturing, and lighted the lamp, Amy got out of the easy chair without being asked, and Jo forgot how tired she was as she sat up to hold the slippers nearer to the blaze.
-- 'I can hold them crumpled up in my hand, so no one will know how stained they are.
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