keeping是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 一致， 协调，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The truth is, that he tried to be smart, as a means of distract-ing his own attention, and keeping down his terror; for the spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones.
-- 'And then,' cried one of the girls,' Peter will be keeping company with some one, and setting up for himself.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself, A tale of two citiesthat Friday night in November, one thousand seven hun-dred and seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.
-- Dress was the one unfailing talisman and charm used for keeping all things in their places.
-- He devoted himself during the remainder of the evening to keeping a most vigilant watch on Mrs. Cruncher, and sullenly holding her in conversation that she might be pre-vented from meditating any petitions to his disadvantage.
-- Impelled by a laudable ambition to study the art and mystery of his father's honest calling, Young Jerry, keeping as close to house fronts, walls, and doorways, as his eyes were close to one another, held his honoured parent in view.
-- 'Are you sure,' asked Jacques Two, of Defarge, 'that no embarrassment can arise from our manner of keeping the register?
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she rubbed the whole bundle of matches quickly against the wall, for she wanted to be quite sure of keeping her grandmother near her.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said keeping his finger on the bill of fare.
-- Tell me frankly now," he pursued, picking up a cigar and keeping one hand on his glass; "give me your advice."
-- They were speaking of common acquaintances, keeping up the most trivial conversation, but to Kitty it seemed that every word they said was determining their fate and hers.
-- Absorbed in such dreams, carefully keeping his horse by the hedges, so as not to trample his young crops, he rode up to the laborers who had been sent to sow clover.
-- Vronsky was aware of those eyes fastened upon him from all sides, but he saw nothing except the ears and neck of his own mare, the ground racing to meet him, and the back and white legs of Gladiator beating time swiftly before him, and keeping always the same distance ahead.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed to be the only possible means of keeping Phileas Fogg several days longer at Hong Kong.
-- Staggering and holding himself up by keeping against the walls, falling down and creeping up again, and irresistibly impelled by a kind of instinct, he kept crying out, "The Carnatic!the Carnatic!"
-- It will be remembered that the obstinate fellow had insisted on keeping his famous family watch at London time, and on regarding that of the countries he had passed through as quite false and unreliable.
-- Fix evidently was no longer an enemy, but an ally; he was faithfully keeping his word.
-- On the next day, the 19th of December, the masts, rafts, and spars were burned; the crew worked lustily, keeping up the fires.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw Leora, always an "odd child," doing obediently enough the flat household tasks but keeping snug the belief that some day she would find a youngster with whom, in whatever danger or poverty, she would behold all the colored world.
-- It'll be nice to have you with me in the scrap, because you aren't supposed to know that he expects to plan out everything for everybody and-- Oh, Sandy, I've been so lonely for you!Mother isn't really a bit sick, not the least bit, but they go on keeping me here.
-- She had a genius for keeping out of his way, for not demanding to be noticed, so that, while he plunged into his books as he never had done in Clif's rustling, grunting, expectorating company, he had ever the warm, half-conscious feeling of her presence.
-- Mrs. Norblom was tired of keeping house, and she wanted to go to Mrs. Beeson's boarding house (to the front room, on the right as you went along the up-stairs hall, the room with the plaster walls and the nice little stove that Mrs. Beeson bought from Otto Krag for seven dollars and thirty-five cents--no, seven and a quarter it was).
-- "Is old Winter keeping going?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I remember, my good sir, I remember quite well your coming here,' the old woman said distinctly, still keeping her inquiring eyes on his face.
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