devour是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 狼吞虎咽地吃; 挥霍, 耗尽，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：
-- Whether the sea will devour us is another question; but we have time to consider."
-- It was like the delirious fury of tigers fighting over their prey, or like a circus where the wild beasts devour the deer.
-- The volcano might devour the bold schemers, who offered it a crater.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You devour your people, for you are king over a feeble folk; otherwise, son of Atreus, hencefor-ward you would insult no man.
-- He fell heavily to the ground and Ulysses vaunted over him saying, 'O Socus, son of Hip-pasus tamer of horses, death has been too quick for you and you have not escaped him: poor wretch, not even in death shall your father and mother close your eyes, but the raven-ing vultures shall enshroud you with the flapping of their dark wings and devour you.
-- The Tro-jans had gathered round Ulysses like ravenous mountain jackals round the carcase of some horned stag that has been hit with an arrow the stag has fled at full speed so long as his blood was warm and his strength has lasted, but when the arrow has overcome him, the savage jackals devour him in the shady glades of the forest.
-- I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them; as for you, vultures shall devour you here.
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：
-- Let them devour each other alive what is to me?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness.
-- and caused live coals to be brought, and these the dog was compelled to devour before the sight of all, until flames burst forth from its throat.
-- So she called all seven to her and said: 'Dear children, I have to go into the forest, be on your guard against the wolf; if he comes in, he will devour you all skin, hair, and everything.
-- The miller thought to himself: 'The wolf wants to deceive someone,' and refused; but the wolf said: 'If you will not do it, I will devour you.'
-- The dogs come and devour the bacon.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard a noise just over my head, like the clapping of wings, and then began to perceive the woful condition I was in; that some eagle had got the ring of my box in his beak, with an intent to let it fall on a rock, like a tortoise in 177a shell, and then pick out my body, and devour it: for the sagacity and smell of this bird enables him to discover his quarry at a great distance, though better concealed than I could be within a two-inch board.
-- My master, continuing his discourse, said, 'there was nothing that rendered the Yahoos more odious, than their undistinguishing appetite to devour every thing that came in their way, whether herbs, roots, berries, the corrupted flesh of animals, or all mingled together: and it was peculiar in their temper, that they were fonder of what they could get by rapine or stealth, at a greater distance, than much better food provided for them at home.
-- One of the members for the affirmative offered several arguments of great strength and weight, alleging, 'that as the Yahoos were the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced, so they were the most restive and in-docible, mischievous and malicious; they would privately suck the teats of the Houyhnhnms' cows, kill and devour their cats, trample down their oats and grass, if they were not continually watched, and commit a thousand other ex-travagancies.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But will it do you any good to devour it with your eyes?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver, whose eyes had glistened at the mention of meat, and who was trembling with eagerness to devour it, replied in the negative; and a plateful of coarse broken victuals was set before him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What to do with myself at night I knew not, nor indeed where to rest, for I was afraid to lie down on the ground, not knowing but some wild beast might devour me, though, as I afterwards found, there was really no need for those fears.
-- Besides, after some thought upon this affair, I considered that if this land was the Spanish coast, I should certainly, one time or other, see some vessel pass or repass one way or other; but if not, then it was the savage coast between the Spanish country and Brazils, where are found the worst of savages; for they are cannibals or men-eaters, and fail not to murder and devour all the human bodies that fall into their hands.
-- This touched me sensibly, for I foresaw that in a few days they would devour all my hopes; that I should be starved, and never be able to raise a crop at all; and what to do I could not tell; however, I resolved not to lose my corn, if possible, though I should watch it night and day.
-- With these reflections I worked my mind up, not only to a resignation to the will of God in the present disposition of my circumstances, but even to a sincere thankfulness for my condition; and that I, who was yet a living man, ought not to complain, seeing I had not the due punishment of my sins; that I enjoyed so many mercies which I had no reason to have expected in that place; that I ought never more to re-pine at my condition, but to rejoice, and to give daily thanks for that daily bread, which nothing but a crowd of wonders could have brought; that I ought to consider I had been fed even by a miracle, even as great as that of feeding Elijah by ravens, nay, by a long series of miracles; and that I could hardly have named a place in the uninhabitable part of the world where I could have been cast more to my advantage; a place where, as I had no society, which was my affliction on one hand, so I found no ravenous beasts, no furious wolves or tigers, to threaten my life; no venomous creatures, or poisons, which I might feed on to my hurt; no savages to murder and devour me.
-- Then terrible thoughts racked my imagination about their having found out my boat, and that there were peo-ple here; and that, if so, I should certainly have them come again in greater numbers and devour me; that if it should happen that they should not find me, yet they would find my enclosure, destroy all my corn, and carry away all my flock of tame goats, and I should perish at last for mere want.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When one of the pack falls through weakness, the others devour him.
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