luncheon是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 午宴， 午餐， 便宴，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 had a pleasant luncheon in which little was said of the business which had brought us together.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch described what grouse moors this Malthus had bought in the Tver province, and how they were preserved, and of the carriages and dogcarts in which the shooting party had been driven, and the luncheon pavilion that had been rigged up at the marsh.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had spoken at the Toledo Chamber of Commerce Weekly Luncheon on "More Health--More Bank Clearings."
-- When Pickerbaugh addressed a church or the home circle he spoke of "the value of health in making life more joyful," but when he addressed a business luncheon he changed it to "the value in good round dollars and cents of having workmen who are healthy and sober, and therefore able to work faster at the same wages."
-- In the gossip at luncheon clubs, in discussions at the Parents' and Teachers' Association, in one frank signed protest sent to the Mayor, Martin was blamed for too strict an inspection of milk, for insufficiently strict inspection of milk; for permitting garbage to lie untouched, for persecuting the overworked garbage collectors; and when a case of small-pox appeared in the Bohemian section, there was an opinion that Martin had gone out personally and started it.
-- VIII The military duties of the McGurk staff did not consist entirely in wearing uniforms, receiving salutes, and listening to Col. Dr. Tubbs's luncheon lectures on "the part America will inevitably play in the reconstruction of a Democratic Europe."
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I forced him to eat, and after luncheon I induced him to lie down, but he could not sleep.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This luncheon would sustain them until their supper, which they intended to take at Granite House.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba, after throwing a glance here, a caution there, and lecturing one of the younger operators who had allowed his last finished sheep to go off among the flock without re-stamping it with her initials, came again to Gabriel, as he put down the luncheon to drag a frightened ewe to his shear-station, flinging it over upon its back with a dexterous twist of the arm.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Luncheon was over, coffee was brought out on the grass, the party left the table and sat about in lounge chairs, in the shade or in the sunshine as they wished.
-- "There was absolutely nowhere to sit down, nowhere, a man just above sang 'Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep' the whole way; he was blind and he had a small organ, one of those portable organs, and he expected money; so you can imagine what that was like; there came a constant smell of luncheon from below, and puffs of hot oily machinery; the journey took hours and hours and hours; and for miles, literally for miles, dreadful boys ran with us on the shore, in that awful Thames mud, going in up to the waist they had their trousers turned back, and they went up to their hips in that indescribable Thames mud, their faces always turned to us, and screaming, exactly like carrion creatures, screaming ''Ere y'are sir, 'ere y'are sir, 'ere y'are sir,' exactly like some foul carrion objects, perfectly obscene; and paterfamilias on board, laughing when the boys went right down in that awful mud, occasionally throwing them a ha'penny.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will be too absurd to put a luncheon for twelve before a single girl,' cried Jo, hurrying away to the lower regions, too excited to stop even for a laugh.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh!Mary,' said she, 'I wish you had gone with us, for we had such fun!As we went along, Kitty and I drew up the blinds, and pretended there was nobody in the coach; and I should have gone so all the way, if Kitty had not been sick; and when we got to the George, I do think we behaved very handsomely, for we treated the other three with the nicest cold luncheon in the world, and if you would have gone, we would have treated you too.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Young Mr. So-and-So would entertain a party of friends at a private luncheon on the sixteenth, at Sherry's.
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