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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Luckily, the Law of the Jungle had taught him to keep his temper, for in the jungle life and food depend on keeping your tem-per; but when they made fun of him because he would not play games or fly kites, or because he mispronounced some word, only the knowledge that it was unsportsmanlike to kill little naked cubs kept him from picking them up and breaking them in two.
-- Sea Catch sunk his head proudly between his fat shoul-ders and pretended to go to sleep for a few minutes, but all the time he was keeping a sharp lookout for a fight.
-- Rikki-tikki was bounding all round Nagaina, keeping just out of reach of her stroke, his little eyes like hot coals.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- demanded the scout, throwing his rifle carelessly across his left arm, and keeping the forefinger of his right hand on the trigger, though he avoided all appear- ance of menace in the act.
-- Such memorials of the passage and struggles of man are yet frequent throughout the broad barrier of wilderness which once separated the hostile provinces, and form a species of ruins that are intimate-ly associated with the recollections of colonial history, and which are in appropriate keeping with the gloomy charac-ter of the surrounding scenery.
-- For many minutes Duncan succeeded in keeping his senses on the alert, and alive to every moaning sound that arose from the forest.
-- Then they drew warily back, keeping their eyes riveted on the ruin, as if they expected to see the apparitions of the dead issue from its silent walls, until, having reached the boundary of the area, they moved slowly into the thicket and disappeared.
-- It was, perhaps, owing to this circumstance, in addition to the necessity of keeping every hand employed at the paddles, that the Hurons had not immediate recourse to their firearms.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ichabod, on the con-trary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
-- They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed with a de-mon, instead of keeping up it, made an opposite turn, and plunged headlong down hill to the left.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Strickland did not talk much, but she had a pleasant gift for keeping the conversation general; and when there was a pause she threw in just the right remark to set it going once more.
-- "Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was even great difficulty in keeping the balloon fastened to the ground, as the squalls dashed it furiously about.
-- In short, they sometimes went faster than they liked, and had some difficulty in keeping their feet; but hope gave them strength, for it was not at random that they made their way along the shore.
-- I will add that by sawing the bamboo in two at the joint, keeping for the bottom the part of the transverse film which forms the joint, useful cups are obtained, which are much in use among the Chinese.
-- Their uneasiness led one or other of them also to go out every few minutes to see if Top was keeping good watch.
-- Lastly, the time had come for turning the balloon-case to use, by cutting it up to make shirts and other articles; for as to keeping it in its present form, and risking themselves in a balloon filled with gas, above a sea of the limits of which they had no idea, it was not to be thought of.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.
-- 'Look at the worst side of the question then,' said Trent as steadily as before, and keeping his eyes upon his friend.
-- 'If he has any expectations at all or any means of keeping a wife well,' said Mrs Wackles to her eldest daughter, 'he'll state 'em to us now or never.
-- Mr Swiviller looked with a supercilious smile at Mr Chegg's toes, then raised his eyes from them to his ankles, from that to his shin, from that to his knee, and so on very gradually, keeping up his right leg, until he reached his waistcoat, when he raised his eyes from button to button until he reached his chin, and travelling straight up the middle of his nose came at last to his eyes, when he said abruptly,'No, sir, I didn't.'
-- 'Keeping his place of retirement very close, that he may not be visited too often by affectionate grandsons and their devoted friends, eh?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I did not know there was a ditch," he said, also smiling, and still keeping her hand in his.
-- "Mysticism without poetry is superstition, and poetry without mysticism is prose," she continued, smiling sadly, still keeping her eye on the servant, who was smoothing down the curtain.
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