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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Flora, rising to give him a cordial reception, 'Doyce and Clennam what a start and a surprise for though not far from the machinery and foundry business and surely might be taken sometimes if at no other time about mid-day when a glass of sherry and a humble sandwich of whatever cold meat in the larder might not come amiss nor taste the worse for being friendly for you know you buy it somewhere and wherever bought a profit must be made or they would never keep the place it stands to reason without a motive still never seen and learnt now not to be expected, for as Mr F. himself said if seeing is believing not seeing is believing too and when you don't see you may fully believe you're not remembered not that I expect you Arthur Doyce and Clennam to remember me why should I for the days are gone but bring another teacup here directly and tell her fresh toast and pray sit near the fire.'
-- That how it was not to be expected, ma'am, that he should lose by it, his ways being, as you might say and utter no falsehood, paved with gold; but that how it was much to be regretted that something handsome hadn't been got up to make it worth his while; for it was such and only such that knowed the heighth to which the bread and butchers' meat had rose, and it was such and only such that both could and would bring that heighth down.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes-terday at dinner, when an Austrian officer stared at us and then said something to his friend, a rakish-looking baron, about 'ein wonderschones Blondchen', Fred looked as fierce as a lion, and cut his meat so savagely it nearly flew off his plate.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the fare was of the most substantial kind not only meat and potatoes, but dumplings; good heavens!dumplings for supper!One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.
-- Yes, for replenished with the meat and wine of the word, to the faithful man of God, this pulpit, I see, is a self-containing stronghold a lofty Ehrenbreitstein, with a perennial well of water within the walls.
-- Porpoise meat is good eating, you know.
-- No!And when reaching out his knife and fork, between which the slice of beef was locked, Ahab thereby motioned Starbuck's plate towards him, the mate received his meat as though receiving alms; and cut it tenderly; and a little started if, perchance, the knife grazed against the plate; and chewed it noiselessly; and swallowed it, not without circumspection.
-- Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them; and though, while the valiant butchers over the deck-table are thus cannibally carving each other's live meat with carving-knives all gilded and tasselled, the sharks, also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away under the table at the dead meat; and though, were you to turn the whole affair upside down, it would still be pretty much the same thing, that is to say, a shocking sharkish business enough for all parties; and though sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy in case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be decently buried; and though one or two other like instances might be set down, touching the set terms, places, and occasions, when sharks do most socially congregate, and most hilariously feast; yet is there no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm whale, moored by night to a whaleship at sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected.
-- They had some cold meat for dinner, and sat so long after it, while Mr. Sikes indulged himself with three or four pipes, that Oliver began to feel quite certain they were not going any further.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She examined into their em-ployments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently; found fault with the arrangement of the furni-ture; or detected the housemaid in negligence; and if she accepted any refreshment, seemed to do it only for the sake of finding out that Mrs. Collins's joints of meat were too large for her family.
-- After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly dis-played a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, 'Is not this nice?
-- She was going to the butcher's, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last it occurred to my thoughts that I shook a bag of chickens' meat out in that place; and then the wonder began to cease; and I must confess my religious thankfulness to God's providence began to abate, too, upon the discovering that all this was nothing but what was common; though I ought to have been as thankful for so strange and unforeseen a providence as if it had been miraculous; for it was really the work of Providence to me, that should order or appoint that ten or twelve grains of corn should remain unspoiled, when the rats had destroyed all the rest, as if it had been dropped from heaven; as also, that I should throw it out in that par-ticular place, where, it being in the shade of a high rock, it sprang up immediately; whereas, if I had thrown it any-where else at that time, it had been burnt up and destroyed.
-- At night I made my supper of three of the turtle's eggs, which I roasted in the ashes, and ate, as we call it, in the shell, and this was the first bit of meat I had ever asked God's blessing to, that I could remember, in my whole life.
-- to make broth, and stew a bit of meat by itself.
-- I frequently sat down to meat with thank-fulness, and admired the hand of God's providence, which had thus spread my table in the wilderness.
-- Here I observed, by the help of my per-spective glass, that they were no less than thirty in number; that they had a fire kindled, and that they had meat dressed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sizzle of the meat frying did not sound quite so pleasing now that Carrie had reported her discontent.
-- As he cut the meat his rings almost spoke.
-- The meat to which he helped himself remained on his plate untouched.
-- Then it came to be: "George, I must have some coal to-day," or, "You must get some meat of some kind for dinner."
-- "I don't know," he said one day, taking a trivial expenditure for meat as a text, "it seems to take an awful lot for us to live."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And so you ain't had no meat nor bread to eat all this time?
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