loaf是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 一块面包, 块, 团 v. 消磨时间，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread; at the sausage-shop, in every dead-dog preparation that was offered for sale.
-- said Mr. Crunches looking about, as if he rather expected to see the loaf disappear under the efficacy of his wife's petitions.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The loaf I'll fetch you this very minute, but wouldn't you rather have some cabbage soup instead of sausage?
-- 'Don't be in such a hurry, you quite frighten me!Shall I get you the loaf or not?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accordingly we looked in at a baker's window, and after I hadmade a series of proposals to buy everything that was bilious in theshop, and he had rejected them one by one, we decided in favourof a nice little loaf of brown bread, which cost me three-pence.
-- Iaccepted the gift thankfully, and bought a loaf with it.
-- I saw him look at the loaf at supper (which happenedto be a small one), as if nothing else stood between us and famine;and when my aunt insisted on his making his customary repast, Idetected him in the act of pocketing fragments of his bread andcheese; I have no doubt for the purpose of reviving us with thosesavings, when we should have reached an advanced stage ofattenuation.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had first, however, pro-vided for my sustenance for that day by a loaf of coarse bread, which I purloined, and a cup with which I could drink more conveniently than from my hand of the pure water which flowed by my retreat.
-- The girl met him at the door, helped to relieve him of his burden, and taking some of the fuel into the cottage, placed it on the fire; then she and the youth went apart into a nook of the cottage, and he showed her a large loaf and a piece of cheese.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First, with her left hand she jammed the loaf hard and fast against her bib,--where it sometimes got a pin into it, and sometimes a needle, which we afterwards got into our mouths.
-- A teaboard, cups and saucers, plates, knives and forks (including carvers), spoons (various), saltcellars, a meek little muffin confined with the utmost precaution under a strong iron cover, Moses in the bulrushes typified by a soft bit of butter in a quantity of parsley, a pale loaf with a powdered head, two proof impressions of the bars of the kitchen fireplace on triangular bits of bread, and ultimately a fat family urn; which the waiter staggered in with, expressing in his countenance burden and suffering.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, this jam shall be blessed by God,' cried the little tailor, 'and give me health and strength'; so he brought the bread out of the cupboard, cut himself a piece right across the loaf and spread the jam over it.
-- Not long afterwards, there was once more great dearth throughout the land, and the children heard their mother saying at night to their father: 'Everything is eaten again, we have one half loaf left, and that is the end.
-- As she was very hungry, she picked a little piece of each loaf and drank a very little wine out of each glass; and after that she thought she would lie down and rest.
-- In another room he saw on a table a sword and a loaf of bread, which he also took.
-- Some time after, three grand embassies came to the old king's court, with rich gifts of gold and precious stones for his youngest son; now all these were sent from the three kings to whom he had lent his sword and loaf of bread, in order to rid them of their enemy and feed their people.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This big loaf is for Signor John Baptist.
-- He asked this member of the fraternity (who had two red herrings in his hand, and a loaf and a blacking brush under his arm), where was the nearest place to get a cup of coffee at.
-- Having filled and emptied his little tumbler twice, and having broken off an end from the great loaf that was set before him with his cloth and napkin, soup-plate, salt, pepper, and oil, he rested his back against the corner of the wall, made a couch of the bench on which he sat, and began to chew crust, until such time as his repast should be ready.
-- That was, in other words, that this great statesman was always yet to be told that it behoved the Pilot of the ship to do anything but prosper in the private loaf and fish trade ashore, the crew being able, by dint of hard pumping, to keep the ship above water without him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We should have cake and wine, too, before we go!Never mind; send some bread-- only a loaf of bread and a cup of water.
-- The next day, (the family having been meanwhile relieved with a half-quartern loaf and a piece of cheese, left with them by Mr. Bumble himself,) Oliver and his master returned to the miserable abode; where Mr. Bumble had already arrived, accompanied by four men from the workhouse, who were to act as bearers.
-- the ham being kept clean and preserved from dust, by the ingenious expedient of making a hole in the loaf by pulling out a portion of the crumb, and stuffing it therein.
-- There was a deal table before the fire: upon which were a candle, stuck in a ginger-beer bottle, two or three pewter pots, a loaf and butter, and a plate.
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