fowl是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 家禽； 禽肉，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：
-- Even-tually, she stole a fowl of mine; the business is a mystery to this day; but it could have been no one but herself.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- BOOK III hen the companies were thus arrayed, each under its Wown captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and win-ter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and they wrangle in the air as they fly; but the Achaeans marched silently, in high heart, and minded to stand by one another.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If so, itsharpened his appetite; for I distinctly called to mind that,although he had eaten a good deal of pork and greens at dinner,and had finished off with a fowl or two, he was obliged to havecold boiled bacon for tea, and disposed of a large quantity withoutany emotion.
-- We dined soon after I awoke, off a roast fowl and a pudding; Isitting at table, not unlike a trussed bird myself, and moving myarms with considerable difficulty.
-- 'I suppose this unfortunate fowl was born and brought up in acellar,' said aunt, 'and never took the air except on a hackneycoach-stand, I hope the steak may be beef, but I don't believe it.
-- 'Don'tyou think the fowl may have come out of the country, aunt?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should likewise,' said the doctor with increased solemnity, 'give her something light for supper the wing of a roasted fowl now ''Why, goodness gracious me, sir, it's cooking at the kitchen fire this instant!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah!poultry, poultry!You little thought," said Mr. Pumblechook, apostrophizing the fowl in the dish, "when you was a young fledgling, what was in store for you.
-- 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.
-- He said to that, "Let me make you a present of the best fowl in the shop."
-- The disgrace attendant on his immediately afterwards taking to crowing and pursuing me across the bridge with crows, as from an exceedingly dejected fowl who had known me when I was a blacksmith, culminated the disgrace with which I left the town, and was, so to speak, ejected by it into the open country.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when he came into the palace, the flies were sleeping on the walls; the spit was standing still; the butler had the 36 Grimms' Fairy Talesjug of ale at his lips, going to drink a draught; the maid sat with a fowl in her lap ready to be plucked; and the cook in the kitchen was still holding up her hand, as if she was go-ing to beat the boy.
-- Then she said: 'Well, Gretel, en-joy yourself, one fowl has been cut into, take another drink, and eat it up entirely; when it is eaten you will have some peace, why should God's good gifts be spoilt?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of their smaller fowl I could take up twenty or thirty at the end of my knife.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Really so sorry that I should happen to be late on this morning of all mornings because my intention and my wish was to be ready to meet you when you came in and to say that any one that interested Arthur Clennam half so much must interest me and that I gave you the heartiest welcome and was so glad, instead of which they never called me and there I still am snoring I dare say if the truth was known and if you don't like either cold fowl or hot boiled ham which many people don't I dare say besides Jews and theirs are scruples of conscience which we must all respect though I must say I wish they had them equally strong when they sell us false articles for real that certainly ain't worth the money I shall be quite vexed,' said Flora.
-- 'Then take your tea at once I beg,' said Flora, 'and this wing of fowl and bit of ham, don't mind me or wait for me, because I always carry in this tray myself to Mr F.'s Aunt who breakfasts in bed and a charming old lady too and very clever, Portrait of Mr F. behind the door and very like though too much forehead and as to a pillar with a marble pavement and balustrades and a mountain, I never saw him near it nor not likely in the wine trade, excellent man but not at all in that way.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as for going as cook, though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
-- Whisper it not, and I will tell; with a treacherous hook and line, as the fowl floated on the sea.
-- But I doubt not, that leathern tally, meant for man, was taken off in Heaven, when the white fowl flew to join the wing-folding, the invoking, and adoring cherubim!
-- In fact, placed before the strict and piercing truth, this whole story will fare like that fish, flesh, and fowl idol of the Philistines, Dagon by name; who being planted before the ark of Israel, his horse's head and both the palms of his hands fell off from him, and only the stump or fishy part of him remained.
-- "Then hail, for ever hail, O sea, in whose eternal tossings the wild fowl finds his only rest.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be we may kill some alcamies (a fowl like our curlews) for ourselves, for I know he keeps the gunner's stores in the ship.'
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