dinner是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 正餐， 宴会，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：
-- Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual mel-ancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker's-book, went home to bed.
-- 'Would it apply to any kind of dinner on this day.'
-- Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last.
-- At last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire made up.
-- He sat down to the dinner that had been boarding for him by the fire; and when she asked him faintly what news (which was not until after a long silence), he appeared em-barrassed how to answer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it was dark, and he sat before the coffee-room fire, awaiting his dinner as he had awaited his breakfast, his mind was busily dig-ging, digging, digging, in the live red coals.
-- A bottle of good claret after dinner does a digger in the red coals no harm, otherwise than as it has a tendency to throw him out of work.
-- Here, they were shown into a little room, where Charles Darnay was soon recruiting his strength with a good plain dinner and good wine: while Carton sat oppo-site to him at the same table, with his separate bottle of port before him, and his fully half-insolent manner upon him.
-- 'Now your dinner is done,' Carton presently said, 'why don't you call a health, Mr. Darnay; why don't you give your toast?'
-- On this occasion, Miss Pross, responding to Ladybird's pleasant face and pleasant efforts to please her, unbent exceedingly; so the dinner was very pleasant, too.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We know who has soup, and who has pancakes for dinner to-day, who has cutlets, and who has eggs.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen- maid, and the coachman had given warning.
-- Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American.
-- Yes, Alabin was giving a dinner on glass tables, and the tables sang, Il mio tesoro--not Il mio tesoro though, but something better, and there were some sort of little decanters on the table, and they were women, too," he remembered.
-- As it was, even in the course of these three days, the youngest was unwell from being given unwholesome soup, and the others had almost gone without their dinner the day before.
-- "Let us send for my brother," she said; "he can get a dinner anyway, or we shall have the children getting nothing to eat till six again, like yesterday."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The perusal of this paper absorbed Phileas Fogg until a quarter before four, whilst the Standard, his next task, occupied him till the dinner hour.
-- Dinner passed as breakfast had done, and Mr. Fogg re-appeared in the reading-room and sat down to the Pall Mall at twenty minutes before six.
-- His first care, after being thus "Japanesed," was to enter a tea-house of modest appearance, and, upon half a bird and a little rice, to breakfast like a man for whom dinner was as yet a problem to be solved.
-- Dinner over, the coach which was to convey the passengers and their luggage to the station drew up to the door.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, well, he is older than I am; he also gives, I hear, some dinner parties with bishops and judges present, all in nice clothes.
-- When he had tried on a dinner suit and come out for her approval, his long brown tie and soft- collared shirt somewhat rustic behind the low evening waistcoat, and when the clerk had gone to fetch collars, she wailed: "Darn it, Sandy, you're too grand for me.
-- Leora and he had assured each other that, for a student affair, dinner jacket and black waistcoat would be the thing, as stated in the Benson, Hanley and Koch Chart of Correct Gents' Wearing Apparel, but he grew miserable at the sight of voluptuous white waistcoats, and when that embryo famous surgeon, Angus Duer, came by, disdainful as a greyhound and pushing on white gloves (which are the whitest, the most superciliously white objects on earth), then Martin felt himself a hobbledehoy.
-- Few phenomena at the dinner were so closely observed by the students as the manners of Dr. Benoni Carr.
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