roast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /a. 烤(的) , 烘(的)，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My cousins and clansmen came about me, and pressed me sorely to remain; many a sheep and many an ox did they slaughter, and many a fat hog did they set down to roast before the fire; many a jar, too, did they broach of my father's wine.
-- Many a goodly ox, with many a sheep and bleating goat did they butcher and cut up; many a tusked boar moreover, fat and well-fed, did they singe and set to roast in the flames of Vulcan; and rivulets of blood flowed all round the place where the body was lying.
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：
-- The varlets know the better pieces of the deer; and one would think they might carve and roast a saddle, equal to the best cook in the land!But everything is raw, for the Iro-quois are thorough savages.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The seaman looked at Spilett in a way which seemed to say, "If it depended upon you to do it, we wouldn't taste roast meat very soon"; but he was silent.
-- "Well, Pencroft," said Neb, in a slightly sarcastic tone, "if this is all the game whic h you promised to bring back to my master, it won't need a large fire to roast it!"
-- "Fire, real fire, which will roast this splendid pig perfectly, and we will have a feast presently!"
-- cried Pencroft, "the roast has arrived!and now we can go home."
-- However, this food, although very strengthening, was always roast upon roast, and the party would have been delighted to hear some soup bubbling on the hearth, but they must wait till a pot could be made, and, consequently, till the oven was built.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little door out of which he had thrust his head was close to the inn larder; and there he stood, bowing with grotesque politeness; as much at his ease as if the door were that of his own house; blighting all the legs of mutton and cold roast fowls by his close companionship, and looking like the evil genius of the cellars come from underground upon some work of mischief.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she screamed at the top of her voice, and all the guests began drinking it directly, and very queerly they managed it: some of them put their glasses upon their heads like extinguishers, and drank all that trickled down their faces others upset the decanters, and drank the wine as it ran off the edges of the table and three of them (who looked like kangaroos) scrambled into the dish of roast mutton, and began eagerly lapping up the gravy, 'just like pigs in a trough!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had lit a fire fit to roast an ox, and it was now grown so hot that they could only approach it from the windward, and even there not without precaution.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is an island; on that island there are trees; under those trees, terrestrial animals, bearers of cutlets and roast beef, to which I would willingly give a trial."
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