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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We ought to have three convalescents in our house this minute,like everybody else, and some of the soldiers out to dinner every Sunday.
-- Aunt Pittypat, you must write him a note and invite him to Sunday dinner so I canthank him."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dinner hour was half-past one.
-- When Joe and I got home, we found the table laid, and Mrs. Joe dressed, and the dinner dressing, and the front door unlocked (it never was at any other time) for the company to enter by, and everything most splendid.
-- As I watched them while they all stood clustering about the forge, enjoying themselves so much, I thought what terrible good sauce for a dinner my fugitive friend on the marshes was.
-- And there my sister became so excited by the twenty-five guineas, that nothing would serve her but we must have a dinner out of that windfall at the Blue Boar, and that Pumblechook must go over in his chaise-cart, and bring the Hubbles and Mr. Wopsle.
-- He lodged at a sluice-keeper's out on the marshes, and on working-days would come slouching from his hermitage, with his hands in his pockets and his dinner loosely tied in a bundle round his neck and dangling on his back.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the fire on the hearth left off blazing, and went to sleep; the jack stopped, and the spit that was turning about with a goose upon it for the king's dinner stood still; and the cook, who was at that moment pulling the kitchen-boy by the hair to give him a box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep; the butler, who was slyly tasting the ale, fell asleep with the jug at his lips: and thus everything stood still, and slept soundly.
-- When he arose in the morning, all the work was already done, the room was swept, the table and benches cleaned, the fire in the hearth was lighted, and the water was fetched, and at noon, when he came home, the table was laid, and a good dinner served.
-- When they were sitting at dinner and had eaten, the mother said: 'Elsie, go into the cellar and fetch some beer.'
-- Now the little dwarf was getting their dinner ready, and he brought their food upon seven little plates, and their drink in seven little glasses, and set them upon the table, and out of each little plate their sister ate a small piece, and out of each little glass she drank a small drop; but she let the ring that she had brought with her fall into the last glass.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When dinner was almost done, the nurse came in with a child of a year old in her arms, who immediately spied me, and began a squall that you might have heard from Lon-don-Bridge to Chelsea, after the usual oratory of infants, to get me for a plaything.
-- When dinner was done, my master went out to his la-bourers, and, as I could discover by his voice and gesture, gave his wife strict charge to take care of me.
-- My dinner was brought, and four persons of quality, whom I remembered to have seen very near the king's person, did me the honour 200 Gulliver's Travelsto dine with me.
-- After dinner my company withdrew, and a person was sent to me by the king's order, attended by a flapper.
-- When dinner was done, the master horse took me aside, and by signs and words made me understand the concern he was in that I had nothing to eat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Walking through this extraordinarily black town, while they were getting dinner ready at the hotel, I asked a fellow whom I met; one of the working people; who appeared to have been taking a shower-bath of something fluffy, which I assume to be the raw material 'Mrs. Sparsit inclined her head.
-- Mr. Bounderby, who had been in danger of bursting in silence, interposed here with a project for postponing the family dinner till half-past six, and taking Mr. James Harthouse in the meantime on a round of visits to the voting and interesting notabilities of Coketown and its vicinity.
-- Therefore he rang the bell, and tossing himself negligently on a sofa, ordered 'Some dinner at six with a beefsteak in it,' and got through the intervening time as well as he could.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now to tell the truth, at that moment I was far more interested in the question as to what was to constitute our dinner than in any problem of science; to me soup was more interesting than soda, an omelette more tempting than arithmetic, and an artichoke of ten times more value than any amount of asbestos.
-- It is a matter of great doubt to me now, to what violent measures my uncle's impetuosity might have led him, had not the clock struck two, and our old French cook called out to let us know that dinner was on the table.
-- After taking so much trouble, to find her master not appear at dinner was to her a sad disappointment--which, as she occasionally watched the havoc I was making on the viands, became also alarm.
-- "My dinner does not seem to have done me much good," he observed.
-- My uncle's rage was now directed against the cook for having no dinner ready.
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