banquet是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 宴会, 设宴，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, the question is now, excellency, I believe, to sit down to the banquet you are about to provide for us!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they had got as far the deep-meadowed and rush-grown banks of the Aesopus, the Achaeans sent Tydeus as their envoy, and he found the Cadmeans gathered in great numbers to a banquet in the house of Eteocles.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IV January thirtieth, the birthday of the late Dr. Warburton Stonedge, founder of the medical department of Winnemac, was annually celebrated by a banquet rich in fraternalism and speeches and large lack of wine.
-- The banquet ended early, and there was inadequate attention to Dr. Rouncefield's valuable address on the Sterilization of Catgut.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quilp, however who, beyond the gratification of his demon whims, owed Sampson some acknowledgment of the part he had played in the mourning scene of which he had been a hidden witness, marked these symptoms of uneasiness with a delight past all expression, and derived from them a secret joy which the costliest banquet could never have afforded him.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The subject between the two windows is the banquet given by Calypso to the son of Ulysses, displayed thereon for the admiration of the boarders, and has furnished jokes these forty years to the young men who show themselves superior to their position by making fun of the dinners to which poverty condemns them.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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：
-- This again was heightened by a certain gypsy character that set the banquet off; for while the table was, as Mr. Pumblechook might have said, the lap of luxury,--being entirely furnished forth from the coffee-house,--the circumjacent region of sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character; imposing on the waiter the wandering habits of putting the covers on the floor (where he fell over them), the melted butter in the arm-chair, the bread on the bookshelves, the cheese in the coal-scuttle, and the boiled fowl into my bed in the next room,--where I found much of its parsley and butter in a state of congelation when I retired for the night.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy- pigglely, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst Heaven bless the mark!I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The banquet was appointed for a Sunday, and Miss Rugg with her own hands stuffed a leg of mutton with oysters on the occasion, and sent it to the baker's not the baker's but an opposition establishment.
-- The farewell banquet was of a gorgeous nature, and wound up his visit in a most brilliant manner.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Grace being said, for those people have their grace as well as we though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts Grace, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates.
-- For, like the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at table old Ahab forbade not conversation; only he himself was dumb.
-- But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings of the banquet that was going on so nigh him, no more than the sharks heeded the smacking of his own epicurean lips.
-- In life but few of them would have helped the whale, I ween, if peradventure he had needed it; but upon the banquet of his funeral they most piously do pounce.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, Oliver and Noah had descended into the kitchen at the usual dinner -hour, to banquet upon a small joint of mutton--a pound and a half of the worst end of the neck--when Charlotte being called out of the way, there ensued a brief interval of time, which Noah Claypole, being hungry and vicious, considered he could not possibly devote to a worthier purpose than aggravating and tantalising young Oliver Twist.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I had thus prepared myself, I took my perspective glass, and went up to the side of the hill, to see what I could discover; and I found quickly by my glass that there were one-and-twenty savages, three prisoners, and three canoes; and that their whole business seemed to be the triumphant banquet upon these three human bodies: a barbarous feast, indeed!but nothing more than, as I had observed, was usual with them.
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