meat是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. (食用) 肉类,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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But as the roast meat smelt so good, Gretel thought: 'Something might be wrong, it ought to be tasted!'
-- she quickly hid the roast meat inside the tiled stove, the wine under the pillow, the salad on the bed, the cakes under it, and the parson in the closet on the porch.
-- The peasant made the ra-ven croak again, and said: 'In the second place, he says that there is some roast meat in the tiled stove.'
-- When dinner-time drew nigh, Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had, and put it on the fire to fry.
-- Here she was to stay for seven 185years without meat or drink, and die of hunger.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, he made other signs to let me understand that I should have meat and drink enough, and very good treat-ment.
-- It seems, that upon the first moment I was discovered sleeping on the ground, after my landing, the emperor had early notice of it by an express; and determined in council, that I should be tied in the manner I have related, (which was done in the night while I slept;) that plenty of meat and drink should be sent to me, and a machine prepared to car-ry me to the capital city.
-- He took them out of their cases, and told us, that in his own country his practice was to shave his beard with 33one of these, and cut his meat with the other.
-- 'Lastly, That, upon his solemn oath to observe all the above articles, the said man-mountain shall have a daily al-lowance of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 of our subjects, with free access to our royal person, and other marks of our favour.
-- The reader may please to observe, that, in the last arti-cle of the recovery of my liberty, the emperor stipulates to allow me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for the sup-port of 1724 Lilliputians.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That's meat and drink to us.
-- He lay upon his back with one arm doubled under him, and according to his own belief had hardly stirred since he fell, except that he had moved his free hand to a side pocket, in which he remembered to have some bread and meat (of which he had swallowed crumbs), and had likewise scooped up a little water in it now and then.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The hamper was not very large but tolerably satisfactory, for I knew that in concentrated essence of meat and biscuit there was enough to last six months.
-- Our stock of provisions consisted of nothing but a piece of dry meat and some soaked and half-moldy biscuits.
-- "Yes," was my lowly spoken reply, as I held out something in my hand, "this morsel of dried meat is all that remains for us three."
-- My companions, doubtless, felt the same horrible tortures, but neither of them would touch the wretched morsel of meat that remained.
-- "When this piece of meat is devoured, Uncle, what hope will there remain unto us?"
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:
-- He realized now that the bitch-goddess of Success had two main appetites: one for flattery, adulation, stroking and tickling such as writers and artists gave her; but the other a grimmer appetite for meat and bones.
-- And the meat and bones for the bitch-goddess were provided by the men who made money in industry.
-- 'One man's meat is another man's poison,' he said, out of the darkness.
-- 'But it's meat an' drink to me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His children often had, and with his perfect acquiescence it had gone into the common purse to buy meat that he had eaten, and drink that he had drunk; but fustian splashed with white lime, bestowing halfpence on him, front to front, was new.
-- She had brought the meat home that she should have eaten herself, and was already warming it on a gridiron over the fire for her father, clad in an old grey gown and a black cap, awaiting his supper at the table.
-- There, were many whose shillings had gone into his pocket to buy him meat and drink; but none who were now obtrusively Hail fellow well met!with him, on the strength of that assistance.
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