keeper是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 看护人； 饲养员，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《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having by this time recovered a little breath, the worthy book-stall keeper proceeded to relate, in a more coherent manner the exact circumstances of the robbery.
-- The book-stall keeper got into the coach; and away they drove.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope the eating-house keeper will want but little and that he may not want that little long,' returned his companion; but I suspect you've no means of paying for this!'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would take off his hat, and would silence the light-tongued and the vicious in her presence--much as the Irish keeper of a Bowery hall will humble himself before a Sister of Mercy, and pay toll to charity with a willing and reverent hand.
-- As a rule, no money except the cash taken in after banking hours was kept about the place, and that was locked in the safe by the cashier, who, with the owners, was joint keeper of the secret combination, but, nevertheless, Hurstwood nightly took the precaution to try the cash drawers and the safe in order to see that they were tightly closed.
-- "Let me have some more chips," said Hurstwood to the keeper in charge, taking out a bill.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most striking of these was perhaps the relishing manner in which he remarked on the pensioner's infirmities and failings, as if he were a gracious Keeper making a running commentary on the decline of the harmless animal he exhibited.
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