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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had only stopped once, to rest and snatch a hurried meal to recruit their strength.
-- The substantial dishes were reserved for the night-comers, and the three hunters contented themselves with devouring the partridges, and washed down their meal with clear, fresh water, which was pronounced superior to all the porter in the world, even to the famous Highland USQUEBAUGH, or whisky.
-- Both from the noise of the howling and the multitude of shadows leaping about, Glenarvan had a pretty good idea of the number of the wolves, and he knew they had scented a good meal of human flesh or horse flesh, and none of them would go back to their dens without a share.
-- But notwithstanding this, the viands at the meal were both dainty and varied.
-- Then the Patagonian led the way into the HANGAR of a deserted ESTANCIA, where there was a good, blazing fire to warm them, and a substantial meal of fine, juicy slices of venison soon broiling, of which they did not leave a crumb.
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：
-- We talked little, and I for one was glad when the meal was over and we were able to retire into the modern billiard-room and smoke a cigarette.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Achaeans took their morning meal hastily at the ships, and afterwards put on their armour.
-- The servants were getting a meal ready under an oak, for they had sacrificed a great ox, and were busy cutting him up, while the women were making a porridge of much white barley for the labourers' dinner.
-- He stood up and said among the Argives, 'We bid two champions put on their armour, take their keen blades, and make trial of one another in the pres-ence of the multitude; whichever of them can first wound the flesh of the other, cut through his armour, and draw blood, to him will I give this goodly Thracian sword inlaid with silver, which I took from Asteropaeus, but the armour let both hold in partnership, and I will give each of them a hearty meal in my own tent.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hall lit the fire and left him there while she went to prepare him a meal with her own hands.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently our meal came to an end; the misshapen mon-ster with the pointed ears cleared the remains away, and Montgomery left me alone in the room again.
-- Then I turned my head, and saw a meal prepared for me on the table.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ahai!He is taking his meal with the others.
-- All he wanted to do was to make a big circle uphill and get at the head of the ravine, and then take the bulls down it and catch Shere Khan between the bulls and the cows; for he knew that af-ter a meal and a full drink Shere Khan would not be in any condition to fight or to clamber up the sides of the ravine.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through an open door he saw into the kitchen, where the fire was crackling in the stove and the evening meal already well under way.
-- Several times she came so late as scarcely to have an hour in which to patch up a meal and start for the theatre.
-- He gave me a meal ticket this noon.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug.
-- So I went and got the bag of meal and my old saw out of the canoe, and fetched them to the house.
-- The meal sifted out and made a little track all the way to the lake.
-- Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again.
-- And they'll follow that meal track to the lake and go browsing down the creek that leads out of it to find the robbers that killed me and took the things.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the Fisherman pulled the net out of the sea, he cried out joyfully: "Blessed Providence!Once more I'll have a fine meal of fish!"
-- The Fisherman, angry at seeing his meal snatched from under his nose, ran after the Dog, but a bad fit of coughing made him stop and turn back.
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