breakfast是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 早餐v. (给某人) 吃早餐,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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When it was an English boat, they would dodge into the forecastle and get a hearty breakfast from the crew.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That day's breakfast was composed solely of pigeon's eggs and lithodomes.
-- At twelve o'clock, when the small band of adventurers halted for breakfast at the foot of a large group of firs, near a little stream which fell in cascades, they found themselves still half way from the first plateau, which most probably they would not reach till nightfall.
-- They would breakfast on the downs, and not return till evening.
-- A fire of brushwood and dried seaweed was lighted, and Neb prepared the breakfast of cold meat, to which he added some cups of Oswego tea.
-- Breakfast was finished, the exploration was continued, and the settlers arrived at the border of the marshy region.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Breakfast being at length over, Mr Codlin called the bill, and charging the ale to the company generally (a practice also savouring of misanthropy) divided the sum-total into two fair and equal parts, assigning one moiety to himself and friend, and the other to Nelly and her grandfather.
-- After a scanty supper, the purchase of which reduced her little stock so low, that she had only a few halfpence with which to buy a breakfast on the morrow, she and the old man lay down to rest in a corner of a tent, and slept, despite the busy preparations that were going on around them all night long.
-- It happened that at that moment the lady of the caravan had her cup (which, that everything about her might be of a stout and comfortable kind, was a breakfast cup) to her lips, and that having her eyes lifted to the sky in her enjoyment of the full flavour of the tea, not unmingled possibly with just the slightest dash or gleam of something out of the suspicious bottle but this is mere speculation and not distinct matter of history it happened that being thus agreeably engaged, she did not see the travellers when they first came up.
-- Then, with the aid of a phosphorus-box and some matches, he procured a light and applied it to a spirit-lamp which had a place of its own below the temple; then, he shut down the lids of all the little chambers; then he opened them; and then, by some wonderful and unseen agency, the steak was done, the egg was boiled, the coffee was accurately prepared, and his breakfast was ready.
-- The lodger took his breakfast like a man who was used to work these miracles, and thought nothing of them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the oblong dining-room, the inlaid floor of which had been polished by three of his men the day before, and containing a massive oaken sideboard and a similar extension table, the legs of which were carved in the shape of lion's paws, giving it a pompous appearance, breakfast stood ready for him.
-- Before breakfast he made his way to the hut of Matrena Kharina, Katiousha's aunt, who was selling liquor surreptitiously, for information about the child, but all he could learn from her was that the child had died on the way to a Moskow asylum; in proof of which the midwife had brought a certificate.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At last in strode the captain, slammed the door behind him, without looking to the right or left, and marched straight across the room to where his breakfast awaited him.
-- Just then a man hailed us from the fire that breakfast was ready, and we were soon seated here and there about the sand over biscuit and fried junk.
-- Add to this double apprehension the mystery that still hung over the behaviour of my friends, their unexplained desertion of the stockade, their inexplicable cession of the chart, or harder still to understand, the doctor's last warning to Silver, "Look out for squalls when you find it," and you will readily believe how little taste I found in my breakfast and with how uneasy a heart I set forth behind my captors on the quest for treasure.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "And now, M. Aronnax, our breakfast is ready.
-- The breakfast consisted of a certain number of dishes, the contents of which were furnished by the sea alone; and I was ignorant of the nature and mode of preparation of some of them.
-- We entered the dining-room, where breakfast was served.
-- "M. Aronnax," said the Captain, "pray, share my breakfast without ceremony; we will chat as we eat.
-- So breakfast as a man who will most likely not have his dinner till very late."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the end of the breakfast the Pussum appeared, in a purple silk wrap with a shimmering sash.
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