meal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 膳食， 一餐，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The meal was served.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But still it's queer to me, just as at this moment it seems queer to me that we country folks try to get our meals over as soon as we can, so as to be ready for our work, while here are we trying to drag out our meal as long as possible, and with that object eating oysters..." "Why, of course," objected Stepan Arkadyevitch.
-- But general propositions as to feeding on meal and on grass were doubtful and obscure.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the meal was over, he took Mr. Fogg apart, and said, "sir" this "sir" scorched his lips, and he had to control himself to avoid collaring this "gentleman" "sir, you have been very kind to give me a passage on this boat.
-- But he found it necessary to keep up a stout heart, and to postpone the meal he craved till the following morning.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We'd better hustle her off to the University Hospital, and we'll give her a test meal and get her X-rayed and take a look for Boas-Oppler bugs."
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：
-- After his meal 102 Crime and Punishmenthe stretched himself on the sofa again, but now he could not sleep; he lay without stirring, with his face in the pillow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This did not save me from more jokes, either; for a husky-voicedgentleman with a rough face, who had been eating out of asandwich-box nearly all the way, except when he had beendrinking out of a bottle, said I was like a boa-constrictor, who tookenough at one meal to last him a long time; after which he actuallybrought a rash out upon himself with boiled beef.
-- 'I have discovered my friend Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawbergenteelly, and without addressing himself particularly to any one,'not in solitude, but partaking of a social meal in company with awidowed lady, and one who is apparently her offspring- in short,'said Mr. Micawber, in another of his bursts of confidence, 'her son.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That Mr. Elton should really be in love with me, me, of all people, who did not know him, to speak to him, at Michaelmas!And he, the very handsomest man that ever was, and a man that every body looks up to, quite like Mr. Knightley!His company so sought after, that every body says he need not eat a single meal by himself if he does not chuse it; that he has more invitations than there are days in the week.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As far as could be learnt it appeared that the poor young dog, still under the impression that since he was kept for running after sheep, the more he ran after them the better, had at the end of his meal off the dead lamb, which may have given him additional energy and spirits, collected all the ewes into a corner, driven the timid creatures through the hedge, across the upper field, and by main force of worrying had given them momentum enough to break down a portion of the rotten railing, and so hurled them over the edge.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She found a peasant and his wife, hard working, bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes.
-- The meal was quick-ly dispatched.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, hell!I like Cathleen and she is fun and I'd like to hear about Caro Rhett and the rest of the Charlestonfolks; but I'm damned if I can stand sitting through another meal with that Yankee stepmother of hers."
-- He devoted himself toFanny with such sympathetic deference she even smiled at him, and the meal went well.
-- There was a nibble of the tough old bird foreach, an adequate amount of dressing made of corn meal and seasoned with onions, a bowl of dried peas, and plenty ofrice and gravy, the latter somewhat watery, for there was no flour with which to thicken it For dessert, there was asweet potato pie followed by Rhett's bonbons, and when Rhett produced real Havana cigars for the gentlemen to enjoyover their glass of blackberry wine, everyone agreed it was indeed a Lucullan banquet When the gentlemen joined the ladies on the front porch, the talk turned to war.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After that, when we went into supper, the place and the meal would have a more homely look than ever, and I would feel more ashamed of home than ever, in my own ungracious breast.
-- It was no nominal meal that we were going to make, but a vigorous reality.
-- While I did so, he stood at the table drinking rum and eating biscuit; and when I saw him thus engaged, I saw my convict on the marshes at his meal again.
-- We made a very good meal by the kitchen fire, and then apportioned the bedrooms: Herbert and Startop were to occupy one; I and our charge the other.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So she thought a while; and at last remembered that there was a sack of fine meal bought at the last fair, and that if she sprinkled this over the floor it would suck up the ale nicely.
-- Then she strewed the meal all about the cellar, and was quite pleased with her cleverness, and said, 'How very neat and clean it looks!'
-- answered she, 'I was cooking you a steak; but while I went down to draw the ale, the dog ran away with it; and while I ran after him, the ale ran out; and when I went to dry up the ale with the sack of meal that we got at the fair, I upset the jug: but the cellar is now quite dry, and looks so clean!'
-- And when the baker had rubbed his feet over, he ran to the miller and said: 'Strew some white meal over my feet for me.'
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