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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For Jove went yesterday to Oceanus, to a feast among the Ethiopians, and the other gods went with him.
-- When the thigh-bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon the spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off: then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.
-- When the thigh-bones were burned, and they had tasted the in-ward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off; then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.
-- When he went all unattended as envoy to the city of Thebes among the Cadmeans, I bade him feast in their houses and be at peace; but with that high spirit which was ever present with him, he challenged the youth of the Cadmeans, and at once beat them in all that he attempted, so mightily did I help him.
-- Prepare a feast for your councillors; it is right and reasonable that you should do so; there is abundance of wine in your tents, which the ships of the Achaeans bring from Thrace daily.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there was a feast by the blazing campfires in front of the lines of picketed elephants, and Little Toomai was the hero of it all.
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：
-- 'Had they held their corn feast or can you say anything of the totems of the tribe?'
-- Instead of manifesting any womanish curiosity to feast his eyes with the sight of a captive from a people he was known to have so much reason to hate, Magua continued to smoke, with the meditative air that he usually maintained, when there was no immediate call on his cunning or his eloquence.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes there would be a feast in the neighbourhood, and a pig would be killed.
-- It was a feast of colour.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any rate, there was only one thing to be done to await the return of Neb and the reporter; but they must give up the feast of hard eggs which they had meant to prepare, and a meal of raw flesh was not an agreeable prospect either for themselves or for the others.
-- "Fire, real fire, which will roast this splendid pig perfectly, and we will have a feast presently!"
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He wants me to do washing on the river and feast on potatoes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was marvellous, a feast for the eyes, this complication of coloured tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiastic colourist!Why could I not communicate to Conseil the lively sensations which were mounting to my brain, and rival him in expressions of admiration?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten.
-- It was after a great feast given by his father the king, on the gaining of a great battle wherein fifty of the enemy had been killed by about two o'clock in the afternoon, and all cooked and eaten that very evening.
-- "They will last long enough!pull on! But who can tell" he muttered "whether these sharks swim to feast on the whale or on Ahab? But pull on!Aye, all alive, now we near him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The place was covered with human bones, the ground dyed with their blood, and great pieces of flesh left here and there, half-eaten, mangled, and scorched; and, in short, all the tokens of the triumphant feast they had been making there, after a victory over their enemies.
-- I saw three skulls, five hands, and the bones of three or four legs and feet, and abundance of other parts of the bodies; and Friday, by his signs, made me understand that they brought over four prisoners to feast upon; that three of them were eaten up, and that he, pointing to himself, was the fourth; that there had been a great battle between them and their next king, of whose subjects, it seems, he had been one, and that they had taken a great number of prisoners; all which were car-ried to several places by those who had taken them in the fight, in order to feast upon them, as was done here by these wretches upon those they brought hither.
-- Having thus fed him with boiled meat and broth, I was resolved to feast him the next day by roasting a piece of the kid: this I did by hanging it before the fire on a string, as I had seen many people do in England, setting two poles up, one on each side of the fire, and one across the top, and tying the string to the cross stick, letting the meat turn con-tinually.
-- This observation of mine put a great many thoughts into me, which made me at first not so easy about my new man Friday as I was be-fore; and I made no doubt but that, if Friday could get back to his own nation again, he would not only forget all his religion but all his obligation to me, and would be forward enough to give his countrymen an account of me, and come back, perhaps with a hundred or two of them, and make a feast upon me, at which he might be as merry as he used to be with those of his enemies when they were taken in war.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XXXII THE FEAST OF BELSHAZZAR--A SEER TO TRANSLATE Such feelings as were generated in Carrie by this walk put her in an exceedingly receptive mood for the pathos which followed in the play.
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