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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began to make rapidly for the yacht, beating the waves violently with his fins, and keeping his tail in a perfectly straight line.
-- And yet he was not a man behind the times, and there was nothing little or narrow-minded about him; but while always keeping open his ancestral county to progress, he was a true Scotchman at heart, and it was for the honor of Scotland that he competed in the yacht races of the Royal Thames Yacht Club.
-- Paganel, DISTRAIT as usual, was flung several times before he succeeded in bestriding his good steed, but once in the saddle, his inseparable telescope on his shoulder-belt, he held on well enough, keeping his feet fast in the stirrups, and trusting entirely to the sagacity of his beast.
-- The mules went cautiously along, keeping their heads near the ground, as if scenting the track.
-- The six men commenced their explorations, keeping constantly to the line they had made in their descent, examining closely every fissure, and going into the very depths of the abysses, choked up though they partly were with fragments of the plateau; and more than one came out again with garments torn to rags, and feet and hands bleeding.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She follows him to town in hope of keeping him there, and tries to persuade you that he does not care about you.'
-- Even Elizabeth began to fear not that Bingley was indifferent but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away.
-- Pray make my excuses to Pratt for not keeping my engagement, and dancing with him to-night.
-- 'If, therefore, an excuse for not keeping his promise should come to his friend within a few days,' she added, 'I shall know how to understand it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, we had not a man touched, all our men keeping close.
-- We had very good weather, only excessively hot, all the way upon our own coast, till we came to the height of Cape St. Augustino; from whence, keeping further off at sea, we lost sight of land, and steered as if we were bound for the isle Fernando de Noronha, holding our course N.E.
-- I was positively against that; and looking over the charts of the sea-coast of America with him, we concluded there was no inhabited country for us to have recourse to till we came within the circle of the Caribbee Islands, and there-fore resolved to stand away for Barbadoes; which, by keeping off at sea, to avoid the indraft of the Bay or Gulf of Mexico, we might easily perform, as we hoped, in about fifteen days' sail; whereas we could not possibly make our voyage to the coast of Africa without some assistance both to our ship and to ourselves.
-- All that I could do was to wait till the tide was at the highest, keeping the raft with my oar like an anchor, to hold the side of it fast to the shore, near a flat piece of ground, which I expected the water would flow over; and so it did.
-- - I soon neglected my keeping Sundays; for, omitting my mark for them on my post, I forgot which was which.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am sure," said she, "I have no doubt in the world of your faithfully keeping this secret, because you must know of what importance it is to us, not to have it reach his mother; for she would never approve of it, I dare say.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In her indifferent wandering she turned into Jackson Street, not far from the river, and was keeping her way along the south side of that imposing thoroughfare, when a piece of wrapping paper, written on with marking ink and tacked up on the door, attracted her attention.
-- She followed him diffidently through the clattering automatons, keeping her eyes straight before her, and flushing slightly.
-- The foreman became a true ogre, prowling constantly about, keeping her tied down to her miserable task.
-- We see him aligned by nature with the forces of life--he is born into their keeping and without thought he is protected.
-- She gave him credit for his good looks, his generous feelings, and even, in fact, failed to recollect his egotism when he was absent; but she could not feel any binding influence keeping her for him as against all others.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' says I, 'I think they are a pack of flat- heads for not keeping the palace themselves 'stead of fooling them away like that.
-- People would call me a low- down Abolition-ist and despise me for keeping mum but that don't make no difference.
-- Boggs rode off blackguarding Sher- burn as loud as he could yell, all down the street; and pretty soon back he comes and stops before the store, still keeping it up.
-- The men was very huffy, and some of them wanted to hang Jim for an example to all the other niggers around there, so they wouldn't be trying to run away like Jim done, and making such a raft of trouble, and keeping a whole family scared most to death for days and nights.
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