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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You'll be keeping civil tongues in your heads this day, or I'll be taking me crop to you," warned Gerald.
-- "That's just it, Miss Hetty," said Gerald, "And I won't be keeping you but one minute by the clock.
-- Poor India, thought Scarlett, she's had so much trouble keeping house since her mother died that she's neverhad the chance to catch any beau except Stuart Tarleton, and it certainly wasn't my fault if he thought I was prettierthan she.
-- That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it asthough such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am a keeping that young man from harming of you at the present moment, with great difficulty.
-- The guilty knowledge that I was going to rob Mrs. Joe--I never thought I was going to rob Joe, for I never thought of any of the housekeeping property as his--united to the necessity of always keeping one hand on my bread and butter as I sat, or when I was ordered about the kitchen on any small errand, almost drove me out of my mind.
-- I was very much afraid of him again, now that he had worked himself into this fierce hurry, and I was likewise very much afraid of keeping away from home any longer.
-- We were joined by no stragglers from the village, for the weather was cold and threatening, the way dreary, the footing bad, darkness coming on, and the people had good fires in-doors and were keeping the day.
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, besides keeping this Educational Institution, kept in the same room--a little general shop.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not go back to his own home, so he went to a strange village, and em-ployed himself in keeping sheep.
-- His master therefore was tired of keeping him and began to think of putting an end to him; but the ass, who saw that some mischief was in the wind, took himself slyly off, and began his journey towards the great city, 'For there,' thought he, 'I may turn musician.'
-- Nevertheless, she promised not to go away, but to continue keeping house for the shepherd.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first and the mildest course is, by keeping the island hover-ing over such a town, and the lands about it, whereby he can deprive them of the benefit of the sun and the rain, and con-sequently afflict the inhabitants with dearth and diseases: and if the crime deserve it, they are at the same time pelted from above with great stones, against which they have no defence but by creeping into cellars or caves, while the roofs of their houses are beaten to pieces.
-- After a short silence, he told me, 'he did not know how I would take what he was going to say: that in the last general assembly, when the af-fair of the Yahoos was entered upon, the representatives had taken offence at his keeping a Yahoo (meaning myself) in his family, more like a Houyhnhnm than a brute animal; that he was known frequently to converse with me, as if he could receive some advantage or pleasure in my company; that such a practice was not agreeable to reason or nature, or a thing ever heard of before among them; the assembly did therefore exhort him either to employ me like the rest 357of my species, or command me to swim back to the place whence I came: that the first of these expedients was utter-ly rejected by all the Houyhnhnms who had ever seen me at his house or their own; for they alleged, that because I had some rudiments of reason, added to the natural prav-ity of those animals, it was to be feared I might be able to seduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the country, and bring them in troops by night to destroy the Houyhnhnms' cattle, as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averse from labour.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an air of jaded sullenness in them both, and particularly in the girl: yet, struggling through the dissatisfaction of her face, there was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression.
-- I should have no power of keeping you against his wish, and he would have no difficulty, at any time, in finding Mr. Thomas Gradgrind of Coketown.
-- Why here she is at a hundred a year (I give her a hundred, which she is pleased to term handsome), keeping the house of Josiah Bounderby of Coketown!'
-- 'Why, I have been otherwise engaged, Loo, in the evenings; and in the daytime old Bounderby has been keeping me at it rather.
-- The townspeople who, in their passing and repassing, saw her there, regarded her as the Bank Dragon keeping watch over the treasures of the mine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I allowed myself to slide, so to speak, holding frantically on the double cord with one hand and with the other keeping myself off the rocks by the assistance of my iron-shod pole.
-- After passing through this phase of the cavernous way, we suddenly came, about a mile farther on, upon a square system of arch, adopted by the early Romans, projecting from the solid rock, and keeping up the weight of the roof.
-- But as we are making no progress, what is the use of keeping up the sail, which may be the cause of our perdition if the tempest should suddenly strike us without warning.
-- Yes--not more than a quarter of a mile off, leaning against the trunk of an enormous tree, was a human being--a Proteus of these subterranean regions, a new son of Neptune keeping this innumerable herd of mastodons.
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：
-- In the wood everything was motionless, the old leaves on the ground keeping the frost on their underside.
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