feast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 筵席, 宴请, 使享受，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The Founder of the Feast indeed.'
-- I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appe-tite for it.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You were talking to her yesterday 芒聙娄' 'I should never have expected that beggarly fool would have spent on this feast all the money she got from that other fool, Raskolnikov.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- '"Why, being gone, I am a man again," like Macbeth, And now fordinner!If I have not (Macbeth-like) broken up the feast with mostadmired disorder, Daisy.'
-- I am satisfied that Mr. and Mrs. Micawber could nothave enjoyed the feast more, if they had sold a bed to provide it.
-- He looked at us, as if he couldnever feast his eyes on us sufficiently.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over behind the barns there was always another barbecue pit, where the house servants andthe coachmen and maids of the guests had their own feast of hoecakes and yams and chitterlings, that dish of hogentrails so dear to negro hearts, and, in season, watermelons enough to satiate.
-- It was a princely feast CareyAshburn had brought a little tea, which he had found in the tobacco pouch of a captured Yankee en route toAndersonville, and everyone had a cup, faintly flavored with tobacco.
-- But Mrs. Merriwether was on night duty at the hospital, Mrs. Meadewas at home making a feast for Phil, who was in from the front lines, and Melanie was asleep.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on it, as if a feast had been in preparation when the house and the clocks all stopped together.
-- That will be his place,--there," striking the table with her stick, "at my head!And yours will be there!And your husband's there!And Sarah Pocket's there!And Georgiana's there!Now you all know where to take your stations when you come to feast upon me.
-- I am determined not to make a display of my feelings, but it's very hard to be told one wants to feast on one's relations,--as if one was a Giant,--and to be told to go.
-- All this made the feast delightful, and when the waiter was not there to watch me, my pleasure was without alloy.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl, so very beautiful that the king could not cease look-ing on it for joy, and said he would hold a great feast and make merry, and show the child to all the land.
-- So twelve fairies came, each with a high red cap on her head, and red shoes with high heels on her feet, and a long white wand in her hand: and after the feast was over they gathered round in a ring and gave all their best gifts to the little prin-cess.
-- Now, as she had not been asked to the feast she was very angry, and scolded the king and queen very much, and set to work to take her revenge.
-- And then the prince and Briar Rose were married, and the wedding feast was given; and they lived happily together all their lives long.
-- And the young king rejoiced when he saw her beauty, and heard how meek and patient she had been; and without saying anything to the false bride, the king ordered a great feast to be got ready for all his court.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not refuse, and so you have a little feast at night to make up for the bread-and-milk breakfast.'
-- Scarlet with shame and anger, Amy went to and fro six dreadful times, and as each doomed couple, looking oh, so plump and juicy, fell from her reluc-tant hands, a shout from the street completed the anguish of the girls, for it told them that their feast was being exulted over by the little Irish children, who were their sworn foes.
-- 'Well, they can eat beef and bread and butter, if they are hungry, only it's mortifying to have to spend your whole morning for nothing,' thought Jo, as she rang the bell half an hour later than usual, and stood, hot, tired, and dispir-ited, surveying the feast spread before Laurie, accustomed to all sorts of elegance, and Miss Crocker, whose tattling tongue would report them far and wide.
-- Quite flushed with excitement were their ruddy fac-es, as they swung in the wind, whispering to one another what they had seen, for some peeped in at the dining room windows where the feast was spread, some climbed up to nod and smile at the sisters as they dressed the bride, others waved a welcome to those who came and went on various errands in garden, porch, and hall, and all, from the rosiest full-blown flower to the palest baby bud, offered their trib-ute of beauty and fragrance to the gentle mistress who had loved and tended them so long.
-- Sometimes her family were invited in to help eat up a too bounteous feast of successes, or Lotty would be privately dispatched with a batch of failures, which were to be con-cealed from all eyes in the convenient stomachs of the little Hummels.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held.
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