abide是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. (by) 遵守， 坚持； (abode) 持续， 住， 逗留vt. 容忍， 忍受； 等候，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile the two hosts lifted up their hands and prayed saying, 'Father Jove, that rulest from Ida, most glorious in power, grant that he who first brought about this war between us may die, and enter the house of Hades, while we others remain at peace and abide by our oaths.'
-- He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a strong man's hand has reclaimed even so were the dense phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.
-- I have never seen you in battle until now, but you are daring beyond all oth-ers if you abide my onset.
-- To-morrow let him show his mettle, abide my spear if he dare.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And abide the end.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Considering that you are young, and striving for a place in life, Ithink it would be well to say that you would readily abide by anyconditions they might impose upon you.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She must abide by the evil of having refused him, whatever it may be; and as to the refusal itself, I will not pretend to say that I might not influence her a little; but I assure you there was very little for me or for any body to do.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I want you for my wife so wildly that no other feeling can abide in me; but I should not have spoken out had I not been led to hope."
-- At first Troy resolved to take no notice and abide by circumstances.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be good--deserve it--and abide by Mr. Jaggers's instructions."
-- "Well, old chap," said Joe, "then abide by your words.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fat-ed so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.
-- He next tried to get off his horse and make his way on foot, but again the laugh rang in his ears, and he found himself unable to move a step, and thus he was forced to abide spellbound.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But oh, my friends and brothers!Oh, men and Englishmen, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown!What shall we say of that man that working-man, that I should find it necessary so to libel the glorious name who, being practically and well acquainted with the grievances and wrongs of you, the injured pith and marrow of this land, and having heard you, with a noble and majestic unanimity that will make Tyrants tremble, resolve for to subscribe to the funds of the United Aggregate Tribunal, and to abide by the injunctions issued by that body for your benefit, whatever they may be what, I ask you, will you say of that working-man, since such I must acknowledge him to be, who, at such a time, deserts his post, and sells his flag; who, at such a time, turns a traitor and a craven and a recreant, who, at such a time, is not ashamed to make to you the dastardly and humiliating avowal that he will hold himself aloof, and will not be one of those associated in the gallant stand for Freedom and for Right?'
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：
-- No, I'll abide by my own.
-- But the little forked flame between me and you: there you are!That's what I abide by, and will abide by, Cliffords and Berthas, colliery companies and governments and the money-mass of people all notwithstanding.
-- But a great deal of us is together, and we can but abide by it, and steer our courses to meet soon.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.
-- Do thou abide below here, where they shall serve thee, as if thou wert the captain.
-- " Then advancing towards the doubloon in the main-mast "Men, this gold is mine, for I earned it; but I shall let it abide here till the White Whale is dead; and then, whosoever of ye first raises him, upon the day he shall be killed, this gold is that man's; and if on that day I shall again raise him, then, ten times its sum shall be divided among all of ye!Away now! the deck is thine, sir!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The younger lady was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at that age, when, if ever angels be for God's good purposes enthroned in mortal forms, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are all kindness, madam; but I believe we must abide by our original plan.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were also, indeed, several thick watch-coats of the seamen's which were left, but they were too hot to wear; and though it is true that the weather was so vio-lently hot that there was no need of clothes, yet I could not go quite naked - no, though I had been inclined to it, which I was not - nor could I abide the thought of it, though I was alone.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was such a cheap looking place he felt that he could not abide it.
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