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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' replied the child, doubtful whether she ought to hold any communication with the supposed culprit, but inclining to her old favourite still; 'what do you want?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The usher was an honest man, with a university education, but he could not hold any employment on account of his tippling habit.
-- "Don't drop your hand; hold it thus," he turned to a young man who let his hand fall--"'that in the case which----'" The portly, whiskered gentleman, the colonel, merchant and others held their hands as directed by the priest, and seemed to do so with particular pleasure, holding their hands quite high, and their fingers most proper; others seemed to do it against their will, and carelessly.
-- Then, it was necessary and important to hold communion with nature and with those people who lived, thought and felt before him (philosophers, poets); now, human institutions were the only things necessary and important, and communion he held with his comrades.
-- Thrusting both her hands into a white pillow-case, and taking hold of two corners of the pillow, she turned her head and looked at him smiling, but it was not the old, cheerful, happy smile, but a frightened, piteous smile.
-- In conclusion, this lawyer made a thrust at the prosecuting attorney by remarking that, although the splendid reasonings of the prosecutor on heredity explain the scientific questions of heredity, they hardly hold good in the case of Bochkova, since her parentage was unknown.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But some foolish people have got hold of the wrong side of that idea.
-- But the day was growing late, and I had come upon the sight of the place after a long and tiring circuit; so I resolved to hold over the adventure for the following day, and I returned to the welcome and the caresses of little Weena.
-- He spoke like one who was trying to keep hold of an idea that eluded him.
-- As I took hold of the handle of the door I heard an exclamation, oddly truncated at the end, and a click and a thud.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well then, the books are something like our books, only the words go the wrong way; I know that, because I've held up one of our books to the glass, and then they hold up one in the other room.
-- 'You make me laugh so that I can hardly hold you!And don't keep your mouth so wide open!All the ashes will get into it there, now I think you're tidy enough!'
-- A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which came some way over his shoulder, and began writing for him.
-- 'Why, it's a Looking-glass book, of course!And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again.'
-- She just kept the tips of her fingers on the hand-rail, and floated gently down without even touching the stairs with her feet; then she floated on through the hall, and would have gone straight out at the door in the same way, if she hadn't caught hold of the door-post.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, then," said he, "you hold the basin"; and with that he took his lancet and opened a vein.
-- Hold out your left hand.
-- "And now that's done," said the blind man; and at the words he suddenly left hold of me, and with incredible accuracy and nimbleness, skipped out of the parlour and into the road, where, as I still stood motionless, I could hear his stick go tap-tap-tapping into the distance.
-- We were not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and hearken.
-- Hold Mrs. Crossley's bag."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fortunately this compartment did not hold the boilers, or the fires would have been immediately extinguished.
-- We had only just time to seize hold of the upper part, which rose about seven feet out of the water, and happily its speed was not great.
-- said Conseil, philosophically; "we can hold out some time yet."
-- "Friend Ned, I do not despair of this stout Nautilus, as you do; and in four days we shall know what to hold to on the Pacific tides.
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