staple是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 订书钉, U形钉; 主食; 主要产品; vt. 用订书钉订; a. 主要的; 基本的;标准的，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：
-- In one of these a staple and chain with a quantity of gnawed bones showed where the animal had been confined.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a very unceremonious and scrambling breakfast, of which the staple commodities were bacon and bread, and beer, they took leave of the landlord and issued from the door of the jolly Sandboys.
-- If the truth must be told, even Mr Swiveller's approaches to the single gentleman were of a very distant kind, and met with small encouragement; but, as he never returned from a monosyllabic conference with the unknown, without quoting such expressions as 'Swiveller, I know I can rely upon you,' 'I have no hesitation in saying, Swiveller, that I entertain a regard for you,' 'Swiveller, you are my friend, and will stand by me I am sure,' with many other short speeches of the same familiar and confiding kind, purporting to have been addressed by the single gentleman to himself, and to form the staple of their ordinary discourse, neither Mr Brass nor Miss Sally for a moment questioned the extent of his influence, but accorded to him their fullest and most unqualified belief.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing disturbed the stillness of the cottage save the chatter of a knot of sparrows on the eaves; one might fancy scandal and rumour to be no less the staple topic of these little coteries on roofs than of those under them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he soon perceived that though he might be a little the worse (or better) for ale, the staple of his excitement was not brewed from malt, or distilled from any grain or berry.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, he thought, perhaps, that in this business of whaling, courage was one of the great staple outfits of the ship, like her beef and her bread, and not to be foolishly wasted.
-- After that no wood is used, except as a means of quick ignition to the staple fuel.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ran up a grocery bill of sixteen dollars with Oeslogge, laying in a supply of staple articles, so that they would not have to buy any of those things for some time to come.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The match went out, and so did we, and shoved in the staple again, and the door was locked as good as ever.
-- They cussed Jim considerble, though, and give him a cuff or two side the head once in a while, but Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to know me, and they took him to the same cabin, and put his own clothes on him, and chained him again, and not to no bed-leg this time, but to a big staple drove into the bot- tom log, and chained his hands, too, and both legs, and said he warn't to have noth-ing but bread and water to eat after this till his owner come, or he was sold at auc- tion because he didn't come in a cer-tain length of time, and filled up our hole, and said a couple of farmers with guns must stand watch around about the cabin every night, and a bulldog tied to the door in the day- time; and about this time they was through with the job and was tapering off with a kind of generl good-bye cussing, and then the old doctor comes and takes a look, and says: 'Don't be no rougher on him than you're obleeged to, be-cause he ain't a bad nigger.
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