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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now hold your shoulder straight, and take short steps, and don't shake hands if you are introduced to anyone.
-- Meg forgot her foot and rose so quickly that she was forced to catch hold of Jo, with an exclamation of pain.
-- 'See the cunning brackets to hold candles, and the nice green sild, puckered up, with a gold rose in the middle, and the pretty rack and stool, all complete,' added Meg, opening the instrument and displaying its beauties.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy?
-- We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers.
-- Then, in that contracted hole, sunk, too, beneath the ship's water-line, Jonah feels the heralding presentiment of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of his bowels' wards.
-- But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.
-- In the midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, catching hold of the bridle, he gave his jaw a sharp wrench, by way of gentle reminder that he was not his own master; and by these means turned him round.
-- 'Hold your tongue, Beadle,' said the second old gentleman, when Mr. Bumble had given vent to this compound adjective.
-- Hold your tongue.'
-- A beadle ordered to hold his tongue!
-- 'Pull that cap off your eyes, and hold up your head, sir.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lydia was bid by her two eldest sisters to hold her tongue; but Mr. Collins, much offended, laid aside his book, and said: 'I have often observed how little young ladies are inter-ested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit.
-- Certain it is, that the living became vacant two years ago, exactly as I was of an age to hold it, and that it was given to another man; and no less certain is it, that I cannot accuse myself of having really done anything to deserve to lose it.
-- She talked on, therefore, with-out interruption from any of them, till they were joined by Mr. Collins, who entered the room with an air more stately than usual, and on perceiving whom, she said to the girls, 'Now, I do insist upon it, that you, all of you, hold your tongues, and let me and Mr. Collins have a little conversa-tion together.'
-- 'And this,' cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, 'is your opinion of me!This is the esti-mation in which you hold me!I thank you for explaining it so fully.
-- When they parted, Lady Catherine, with great conde-scension, wished them a good journey, and invited them to come to Hunsford again next year; and Miss de Bourgh ex-erted herself so far as to curtsey and hold out her hand to both.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was with the utmost hazard the boat came near us; but it was impossible for us to get on board, or for the boat to lie near the ship's side, till at last the men rowing very heartily, and venturing their lives to save ours, our men cast them a rope over the stern with a buoy to it, and then veered it out a great length, which they, after much labour and haz-ard, took hold of, and we hauled them close under our stern, and got all into their boat.
-- As the rage of the wind was still great, though rather less than at first, we could not so much as hope to have the ship hold many minutes without breaking into pieces, unless the winds, by a kind of miracle, should turn immediately about.
-- In this distress the mate of our vessel laid hold of the boat, and with the help of the rest of the men got her slung over the ship's side; and getting all into her, let go, and com-mitted ourselves, being eleven in number, to God's mercy and the wild sea; for though the storm was abated consid-erably, yet the sea ran dreadfully high upon the shore, and might be well called DEN WILD ZEE, as the Dutch call the sea in a storm.
-- I had so much presence of mind, as well as breath left, that seeing myself nearer the mainland than I expected, I got upon my feet, and endeav-oured to make on towards the land as fast as I could before another wave should return and take me up again; but I soon found it was impossible to avoid it; for I saw the sea come after me as high as a great hill, and as furious as an enemy, which I had no means or strength to contend with: my business was to hold my breath, and raise myself upon the water if I could; and so, by swimming, to preserve my breathing, and pilot myself towards the shore, if possible, my greatest concern now being that the sea, as it would car-ry me a great way towards the shore when it came on, might not carry me back again with it when it gave back towards the sea.
-- The last time of these two had well-nigh been fatal to me, for the sea having hurried me along as before, landed me, or rather dashed me, against a piece of rock, and that with such force, that it left me senseless, and indeed helpless, as to my own deliverance; for the blow taking my side and breast, beat the breath as it were quite out of my body; and had it returned again immediately, I must have been stran-gled in the water; but I recovered a little before the return of the waves, and seeing I should be covered again with the water, I resolved to hold fast by a piece of the rock, and so to hold my breath, if possible, till the wave went back.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then passing through the garden, the gate of which had been left open by Margaret, he bore her directly into the house, whither Margaret was just arrived, and quitted not his hold till he had seated her in a chair in the parlour.
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