mouthful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 满口， 一口， 少量，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I put down the mouthful that hesitated upon my lips, and listened.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be as you say,' he continued, reverting to the purport of Heyward's last remark; 'and the greater the reason why we should cut our steaks, and let the carcass drive down the stream, or we shall have the pack howling along the cliffs, begrudging every mouthful we swallow.
-- Uncas, take my steel and kindle a fire; a mouthful of a tender broil will give natur' a helping hand, after so long a trail.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kit, who in despatching his bread and meat had been swallowing two-thirds of his knife at every mouthful with the coolness of a juggler, stopped short in his operations on being thus appealed to, and bawled 'Nobody isn't such a fool as to say he doosn't,' after which he incapacitated himself for further conversation by taking a most prodigious sandwich at one bite.
-- Not deriving from these means the relief which he sought, he bit off an immense mouthful from the bread and meat, and took a quick drink of the porter; by which artificial aids he choked himself and effected a diversion of the subject.
-- 'Why, sir,' replied Brass, 'if there was such a thing as a mouthful of water that could be got without trouble ''There's no such thing to be had here,' cried the dwarf.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She waited until Nekhludoff had swallowed the mouthful he was chewing, and then said: "You must be very tired and hungry."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll have your mouthful of rum tomorrow, and go hang."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She lifted a mouthful to her lips: then she set it down again: her cheeks flushed, and the tears gushed over them.
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