preservation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 保存， 储藏； 保持，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He always executed his task wisely, and this evening Glenarvan noticed he redoubled his care, for which he took occasion to thank him, the preservation of the team being of supreme importance.
-- Barriers of fire are a potent preservation from wild beasts, but New Zealand has neither tiger, nor lion, nor bear, nor any wild animal, but the Maori adequately fills their place, and a fire would only have served to attract this two-footed jaguar.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For scores of years gone by, Monseigneur had squeezed it and wrung it, and had seldom graced it with his presence except for the pleasures of the chase now, found in hunting the people; now, found in hunting the beasts, for whose preservation Monseigneur made edifying spaces of barbarous and barren wilderness.
-- Next to her preservation of his own last grateful love and blessing, and her overcoming of her sorrow, to devote herself to their dear child, he adjured her, as they would meet in Heaven, to comfort her father.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Heyward, apprehensive that the subject might lead to a discussion that would interrupt the harmo-ny so necessary to the preservation of his fair companions; 'we have journeyed far, and few among us are blessed with forms like that of yours, which seems to know neither fa-tigue nor weakness.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- with that, he winked as if in preservation of some deep secret, and folding his arms and leaning back in his chair, looked up at the ceiling with profound gravity.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.
-- 'Creation and preservation don't do well together,' says he, 'and a million of antiquarians can't invent a style.'
-- This yearly gathering was upon the summit of a hill which retained in good preservation the remains of an ancient earthwork, consisting of a huge rampart and entrenchment of an oval form encircling the top of the hill, though somewhat broken down here and there.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hang-ing in the stars and ready to envelop me.
-- Ever since my recovery from the fever I had been in the custom of taking every night a small quantity of lau-danum, for it was by means of this drug only that I was enabled to gain the rest necessary for the preservation of life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the contrary, it would have been better, for his preservation would then have naturally and tenderly addressed my heart.
-- I really do not know whether I felt that I did this for Estella's sake, or whether I was glad to transfer to the man in whose preservation I was so much concerned some rays of the romantic interest that had so long surrounded me.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country: we never parted while I was there; I called her my Glumdalclitch, or little nurse; and should be guilty of great ingratitude, if I omitted this honourable mention of her care and affection towards me, which I heartily wish it lay in my power to requite as she deserves, instead of being the innocent, but unhappy instrument of her disgrace, as I have too much reason to fear.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not wish to abandon him at the bottom of that abyss, while, on the other hand, the instinct of preservation told me to fly.
-- "Providence appears to have designed the preservation in this vast and mysterious hothouse of antediluvian plants, to prove the sagacity of learned men in figuring them so marvelously on paper."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under some former regular inhabitant, the stifling little apartment had broken out into a pier-glass and a gilt table; but the gilding was as faded as last year's flowers, and the glass was so clouded that it seemed to hold in magic preservation all the fogs and bad weather it had ever reflected.
-- Within a few hours the cottage furniture began to be wrapped up for preservation in the family absence or, as Mr Meagles expressed it, the house began to put its hair in papers and within a few days Father and Mother were gone, Mrs Tickit and Dr Buchan were posted, as of yore, behind the parlour blind, and Arthur's solitary feet were rustling among the dry fallen leaves in the garden walks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Noah's shouts were responded to, by a loud scream from Charlotte, and a louder from Mrs. Sowerberry; the former of whom rushed into the kitchen by a side-door, while the latter paused on the staircase till she was quite certain that it was consistent with the preservation of human life, to come further down.
-- A weakness on his part, which affords the narrative an opportunity of relieving the reader from suspense, in behalf of the two young pupils of the Merry Old Gentleman; and of recording-- That when the Dodger, and his accomplished friend Master Bates, joined in the hue-and-cry which was raised at Oliver's heels, in consequence of their executing an illegal conveyance of Mr. Brownlow's personal property, as has been already described, they were actuated by a very laudable and becoming regard for themselves; and forasmuch as the freedom of the subject and the liberty of the individual are among the first and proudest boasts of a true-hearted Englishman, so, I need hardly beg the reader to observe, that this action should tend to exalt them in the opinion of all public and patriotic men, in almost as great a degree as this strong proof of their anxiety for their own preservation and safety goes to corroborate and confirm the little code of laws which certain profound and sound-judging philosophers have laid down as the main-springs of all Nature's deeds and actions: the said philosophers very wisely reducing the good lady's proceedings to matters of maxim and theory: and, by a very neat and pretty compliment to her exalted wisdom and understanding, putting entirely out of sight any considerations of heart, or generous impulse and feeling.
-- A few leaky boats drawn up on the mud, and made fast to the dwarf wall which skirted it: and here and there an oar or coil of rope: appeared, at first, to indicate that the inhabitants of these miserable cottages pursued some avocation on the river; but a glance at the shattered and useless condition of the articles thus displayed, would have led a passer-by, without much difficulty, to the conjecture that they were disposed there, rather for the preservation of appearances, than with any view to their being actually employed.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth, particularly, who knew that her mother owed to the latter the preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy, was hurt and distressed to a most painful degree by a distinction so ill applied.
-- 'The letter shall certainly be burnt, if you believe it es-sential to the preservation of my regard; but, though we have both reason to think my opinions not entirely unal-terable, they are not, I hope, quite so easily changed as that implies.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even when I was afterwards, on due consider-ation, made sensible of my condition, how I was cast on this dreadful place, out of the reach of human kind, out of all hope of relief, or prospect of redemption, as soon as I saw but a prospect of living and that I should not starve and per-ish for hunger, all the sense of my affliction wore off; and Ibegan to be very easy, applied myself to the works proper for my preservation and supply, and was far enough from being afflicted at my condition, as a judgment from heav-en, or as the hand of God against me: these were thoughts which very seldom entered my head.
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