corn是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 谷物， 庄稼， 玉米，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Goriot established himself in the Rue de la Jussienne, close to the Corn Exchange.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- White flourwas scarce and so expensive that corn bread was universal instead of biscuits, rolls and waffles.
-- We don't have corn like this down home.
-- But that green corn didn't dous a bit of good.
-- All the boys have got dysentery anyway, and that corn made it worse.
-- There was a nibble of the tough old bird foreach, an adequate amount of dressing made of corn meal and seasoned with onions, a bowl of dried peas, and plenty ofrice and gravy, the latter somewhat watery, for there was no flour with which to thicken it For dessert, there was asweet potato pie followed by Rhett's bonbons, and when Rhett produced real Havana cigars for the gentlemen to enjoyover their glass of blackberry wine, everyone agreed it was indeed a Lucullan banquet When the gentlemen joined the ladies on the front porch, the talk turned to war.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Pumblechook was in favor of a handsome premium for binding me apprentice to some genteel trade,--say, the corn and seed trade, for instance.
-- He mentioned that there was an opportunity for a great amalgamation and monopoly of the corn and seed trade on those premises, if enlarged, such as had never occurred before in that or any other neighborhood.
-- that the youth's earliest patron, companion, and friend, was a highly respected individual not entirely unconnected with the corn and seed trade, and whose eminently convenient and commodious business premises are situate within a hundred miles of the High Street.
-- And wotsume'er the failings on his part, he were a corn and seedsman in his hart."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- husband,' replied she, 'and a wicked bird has come into the house, and has brought with her all the birds in the world, I am sure, and they have fallen upon our corn in the loft, and are eating it up at such a rate!'
-- cried the carter; for he saw that the corn was almost all gone.
-- After Hans had had her some time, he said: 'Wife, I am going out to work and earn some money for us; go into the 193field and cut the corn that we may have some bread.'
-- Then she lay down among the corn and fell asleep.
-- But when evening came and she still stayed away, Hans went out to see what she had cut, but nothing was cut, and she was lying among the corn asleep.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here I walked on for some time, but could see little on either side, it being now near harvest, and the corn rising at least forty feet.
-- These people were not so well clad as the first, whose ser-vants or labourers they seemed to be; for, upon some words he spoke, they went to reap the corn in the field where I lay.
-- I kept from them at as great a distance as I could, but was forced to move with extreme difficulty, for the stalks of the corn were sometimes not above a foot distant, so that I could hardly squeeze my body betwixt them.
-- However, I made a shift to go forward, till I came to a part of the field where the corn had been laid by the rain and wind.
-- I showed him a corn that I had cut off with my own hand, from a maid of honour's toe; it was about the bigness of Kentish pippin, and grown so hard, that when I returned England, I got it hollowed into a cup, and set in silver.
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：
-- Connie found corn in the corn-bin in the hut.
-- It was all tidy, the corn put in the bin, the blankets fold-ed on the shelf, the straw neat in a corner; a new bundle of straw.
-- A cold wet May, good for corn and hay!Much the corn and hay matter nowadays!
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a land of oil, true enough: but not like Canaan; a land, also, of corn and wine.
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