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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They surged to and fro like the waves of the Icarian Sea, when the east and south winds break from heaven's clouds to lash them; or as when the west wind sweeps over a field of corn and the ears bow beneath the blast, even so were they swayed as they flew with loud cries towards the ships, and the dust from under their feet rose heavenward.
-- Then he cried to his horses, 'Xanthus and Podargus, and you Aethon and goodly Lampus, pay me for your keep now and for all the honey-sweet corn with which Andromache daughter of great Eetion has fed you, and for she has mixed wine and water for you to drink whenever you would, be-fore doing so even for me who am her own husband.
-- Take your horses out of their chari-ots and give them their feeds of corn; then make speed to bring sheep and cattle from the city; bring wine also and corn for your horses and gather much wood, that from dark till dawn we may burn watchfires whose flare may reach to heaven.
-- They made haste to bring sheep and cattle from the city, they brought wine also and corn from their houses and gathered much wood.
-- A thousand camp-fires gleamed upon the plain, and in the glow of each there sat fifty men, while the horses, champing oats and corn beside their chariots, waited till dawn should come.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was it to help thee steal green corn from the roofs of the houses when the ears are put out to dry?'
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：
-- 'His corn is not well parched, and it seems dry.
-- 'Had they held their corn feast or can you say anything of the totems of the tribe?'
-- * A dish composed of cracked corn and beans.
-- By corn is meant maise.
-- 'Where are the pet- ticoats of the Delawares!Let them send their arrows and their guns to the Wyandots; they shall have venison to eat, and corn to hoe.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without looking to the right or left to notice the scene of rural wealth, on which he had so of-ten gloated, he went straight to the stable, and with several hearty cuffs and kicks roused his steed most uncourteous-ly from the comfortable quarters in which he was soundly sleeping, dreaming of mountains of corn and oats, and whole valleys of timothy and clover.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Come, the bread that this grain of corn will make won't choke us very soon!"
-- Herbert, not attaching much importance to his discovery, was going to throw away the grain in question; but Harding took it, examined it, found that it was in good condition, and looking the sailor full in the face "Pencroft," he asked quietly, "do you know how many ears one grain of corn can produce?"
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hoe corn when you may, say I.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Swiftly he ran across the fields, and down the little lanes which sometimes divided them: now almost hidden by the high corn on either side, and now emerging on an open field, where the mowers and haymakers were busy at their work: nor did he stop once, save now and then, for a few seconds, to recover breath, until he came, in a great heat, and covered with dust, on the little market-place of the market-town.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of all my labours it happened that, rummaging my things, I found a little bag which, as I hinted before, had been filled with corn for the feeding of poultry - not for this voyage, but before, as I sup-pose, when the ship came from Lisbon.
-- The little remainder of corn that had been in the bag was all devoured by the rats, and I saw nothing in the bag but husks and dust; and being willing to have the bag for some other use (I think it was to put powder in, when I divided it for fear of the lightning, or some such use), I shook the husks of corn out of it on one side of my fortification, under the rock.
-- At last it occurred to my thoughts that I shook a bag of chickens' meat out in that place; and then the wonder began to cease; and I must confess my religious thankfulness to God's providence began to abate, too, upon the discovering that all this was nothing but what was common; though I ought to have been as thankful for so strange and unforeseen a providence as if it had been miraculous; for it was really the work of Providence to me, that should order or appoint that ten or twelve grains of corn should remain unspoiled, when the rats had destroyed all the rest, as if it had been dropped from heaven; as also, that I should throw it out in that par-ticular place, where, it being in the shade of a high rock, it sprang up immediately; whereas, if I had thrown it any-where else at that time, it had been burnt up and destroyed.
-- But it was not till the fourth year that I could allow myself the least grain of this corn to eat, and even then but sparingly, as I shall say afterwards, in its order; for I lost all that I sowed the first season by not observing the prop-er time; for I sowed it just before the dry season, so that it never came up at all, at least not as it would have done; of which in its place.
-- While this corn was growing I made a little discovery, which was of use to me afterwards.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a fifty-pound sack of corn meal, and aside of bacon, ammunition, and a four-gallon jug of whisky, and an old book and two newspapers for wadding, besides some tow.
-- 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.
-- There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck.
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