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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Conseil was obliged to keep me up, and our preservation devolved on him alone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 43Her momentary weakness past, the child again summoned the resolution which had until now sustained her, and, endeavouring to keep steadily in her view the one idea that they were flying from disgrace and crime, and that her grandfather's preservation must depend solely on her firmness, unaided by one word of advice or any helping hand, urged him onward and looked back no more.
-- For the better preservation of his cheerfulness therefore, and to prevent his faculties from rusting, he provided himself with a cribbage-board and pack of cards, and accustomed himself to play at cribbage with a dummy, for twenty, thirty, or sometimes even fifty thousand pounds aside, besides many hazardous bets to a considerable amount.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they must have been air-tight to judge from the fair preservation of some of their contents.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some news of the lugger in Kitt's Hole had found its way to Supervisor Dance and set him forth that night in our direction, and to that circumstance my mother and I owed our preservation from death.
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