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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The horse did as he was told, and the fox went straight to the lion who lived in a cave close by, and said to him, 'A little way off lies a dead horse; come with me and you may make an excellent meal of his carcase.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She supervised the meal officially, but implied that in her own stately person she considered lunch a weakness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our meal concluded, we went to the Kongens-Nye-Torw; to the king's magnificent palace; to the beautiful bridge over the canal near the Museum; to the immense cenotaph of Thorwaldsen with its hideous naval groups; to the castle of Rosenberg; and to all the other lions of the place-none of which my uncle even saw, so absorbed was he in his anticipated triumphs.
-- This meal was devoured by my worthy relative with avidity and voracity.
-- As soon as the meal was over, the children disappeared, whilst the grown people sat around the fireplace, on which was placed turf, heather, cow dung and dried fish-bones.
-- We ate our meal in thoughtful silence, and then retired to sleep.
-- The hour for our evening meal has come--let us sup."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He behaved perfectly politely during the meal and kept a polite sort of conversa-tion going: but it seemed all touched with insanity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fanny had a composite meal to make, of chops, and porter, and tea; and indignantly pretended to prepare it for herself, though her sister did all that in quiet reality.
-- The servants were recalled, and the meal proceeded to its conclusion.
-- 'Give him a meal of chaff!'
-- 'Give him a meal of chaff, I tell you,' said Mr F.'s Aunt, glaring round Flora on her enemy.
-- Drat him, give him a meal of chaff!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last some four or five of us were summoned to our meal in an adjoining room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish.
-- But the turnpike-man gave him a meal of bread and cheese; and the old lady, who had a shipwrecked grandson wandering barefoot in some distant part of the earth, took pity upon the poor orphan, and gave him what little she could afford--and more--with such kind and gentle words, and such tears of sympathy and compassion, that they sank deeper into Oliver's soul, than all the sufferings he had ever undergone.
-- Such was the aspect of out-of-doors affairs, when Mrs. Corney, the matron of the workhouse to which our readers have been already introduced as the birthplace of Oliver Twist, sat herself down before a cheerful fire in her own little room, and glanced, with no small degree of complacency, at a small round table: on which stood a tray of corresponding size, furnished with all necessary materials for the most grateful meal that matrons enjoy.
-- The untasted meal was removed, with looks which showed that their thoughts were elsewhere, they watched the sun as he sank lower and lower, and, at length, cast over sky and earth those brilliant hues which herald his departure.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet here I was perplexed again, for I nei-ther knew how to grind or make meal of my corn, or indeed how to clean it and part it; nor, if made into meal, how to make bread of it; and if how to make it, yet I knew not how to bake it.
-- After this, I made a great heavy pestle or beater of the wood called the iron-wood; and this I prepared and laid by against I had my next crop of corn, which I proposed to myself to grind, or rather pound into meal to make bread.
-- This was a most difficult thing even to think on, for to be sure I had nothing like the necessary thing to make it - I mean fine thin canvas or stuff to searce the meal through.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As this was a favourite meal with Mrs. Jennings, it lasted a considerable time, and they were just setting themselves, after it, round the common working table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the interval which marked the preparation of the meal Carrie found time to study the flat.
-- She noticed that they were pleased, and thoughts of her sister's home and the meal that would be awaiting her quickened her steps.
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