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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It contained a loaf of bread, a tinned tongue, and two tins of preserved peaches.
-- I brought Cartwright down with me you remember the little chap at the express office and he has seen after my simple wants: a loaf of bread and a clean collar.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He met with more adventures than can be told, and narrowly escaped being caught by the Basking Shark, and the Spotted Shark, and the Hammerhead, and he met all the untrustworthy ruffians that loaf up and down the seas, and the heavy polite fish, and the scarlet spotted scallops that are moored in one place for hundreds of years, and grow very proud of it; but he never met Sea Cow, and he never found an island that he could fancy.
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：
-- I learned that for six months he had lived on a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk a day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Mr Swiveller,' said Quilp, 'being pretty well accustomed to the agricultural pursuits of sowing wild oats, Miss Sally, prudently considers that half a loaf is better than no bread.
-- A small loaf and a morsel of cheese, therefore, were all she could afford, and with these she took her place in the boat again, and, after half an hour's delay during which the men were drinking at the public-house, proceeded on the journey.
-- A penny loaf was all they had had that day.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment the inmates of the cell, with bare feet in their prison shoes, entered, each bearing a loaf of twisted bread, some even two.
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：
-- "A loaf of bread," the Walrus said,"Is what we chiefly need:Pepper and vinegar besidesAre very good indeed Now if you're ready Oysters dear,We can begin to feed."
-- Divide a loaf by a knife what's the answer to that?'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anybody could have bread for asking, and a loaf cost only three-ha'pence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The noise of footsteps on the creaking stairs, a few minutes after the occurrence of this conversation, roused the merry old gentleman as he sat over the fire with a saveloy and a small loaf in his hand; a pocket-knife in his right; and a pewter pot on the trivet.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then sweeping away all the embers, I set down my loaf or loaves, and whelming down the earthen pot upon them, drew the embers all round the outside of the pot, to keep in and add to the heat; and thus as well as in the best oven in the world, I baked my barley-loaves, and became in little time a good pastrycook into the bargain; for I made myself several cakes and puddings of the rice; but I made no pies, neither had I anything to put into them supposing I had, except the flesh either of fowls or goats.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first floor of the building, of which Hanson's flat was the third, was occupied by a bakery, and to this, while she was standing there, Hanson came down to buy a loaf of bread.
-- The car was turned in and he was allowed to loaf a while, but later he was again called.
-- For nearly a quarter of a century, in another section of the city, Fleischmann, the baker, had given a loaf of bread to any one who would come for it to the side door of his restaurant at the corner of Broadway and Tenth Street, at midnight.
-- Every night during twenty years about three hundred men had formed in line and at the appointed time marched past the doorway, picked their loaf from a great box placed just outside, and vanished again into the night.
-- The whole line at once moved forward each taking his loaf in turn and going his separate way.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A big double loaf come along, and I most got it with a long stick, but my foot slipped and she floated out further.
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