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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Shall I put dinner back a quarter of an hour?
-- 'Dinner is half-past seven.'
-- Between coming home and dinner she had cut it out, and she sat in the soft quiescent rapture of herself sewing, while the noise of the reading went on.
-- I was going to my mother for dinner today, Sunday.'
-- She sort of let things go, didn't get me a proper dinner when I came home from work, and if I said anything, flew out at me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the sleepy Sunday of his boyhood, when, like a military deserter, he was marched to chapel by a picquet of teachers three times a day, morally handcuffed to another boy; and when he would willingly have bartered two meals of indigestible sermon for another ounce or two of inferior mutton at his scanty dinner in the flesh.
-- The neatly-served and well-cooked dinner (for everything about the Patriarchal household promoted quiet digestion) began with some soup, some fried soles, a butter-boat of shrimp sauce, and a dish of potatoes.
-- There was mutton, a steak, and an apple-pie nothing in the remotest way connected with ganders and the dinner went on like a disenchanted feast, as it truly was.
-- It might have occupied him until he went down to dinner an hour afterwards, if he had not had another question to consider, which had been in his mind so long ago as before he was in quarantine at Marseilles, and which had now returned to it, and was very urgent with it.
-- So it had come to pass successively, first, that several distinguished ladies had been frightfully shocked; then, that portfolios of his performances had been handed about o' nights, and declared with ecstasy to be perfect Claudes, perfect Cuyps, perfect phaenomena; then, that Lord Decimus had bought his picture, and had asked the President and Council to dinner at a blow, and had said, with his own magnificent gravity, 'Do you know, there appears to me to be really immense merit in that work?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A poor woman came in with a pail a mop, and asked Mr. Cutter if he would let her do some scrubbing for a bit of fish, because she hadn't any dinner for her children, and had been disappointed of a day's work.
-- Meg bathed the insulted hand with glycerine and tears, Beth felt that even her beloved kittens would fail as a balm for griefs like this, Jo wrathfully proposed that Mr. Davis be arrested without delay, and Hannah shook her fist at the 'villain' and pounded potatoes for dinner as if she had him under her pestle.
-- 'Never mind, I'll get the dinner and be servant, you be mistress, keep your hands nice, see company, and give orders,' said Jo, who knew still less than Meg, about culinary affairs.
-- I wash my hands of the dinner party, and since you have asked Laurie on your own responsibility, you may just take care of him.'
-- I'm going out to dinner and can't worry about things at home,' said Mrs. March, when Jo spoke to her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master; who, sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on the upper part of his ivory leg.
-- It is not the least among the strange things bred by the intense artificialness of sea-usages, that while in the open air of the deck some officers will, upon provocation, bear themselves boldly and defyingly enough towards their commander; yet, ten to one, let those very officers the next moment go down to their customary dinner in that same commander's cabin, and straightway their inoffensive, not to say deprecatory and humble air towards him, as he sits at the head of the table; this is marvellous, sometimes most comical.
-- Consider!For hereby Flask's dinner was badly jammed in point of time.
-- For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, Oliver and Noah had descended into the kitchen at the usual dinner -hour, to banquet upon a small joint of mutton--a pound and a half of the worst end of the neck--when Charlotte being called out of the way, there ensued a brief interval of time, which Noah Claypole, being hungry and vicious, considered he could not possibly devote to a worthier purpose than aggravating and tantalising young Oliver Twist.
-- Having disposed of these evil-minded persons for the night, Mr. Bumble sat himself down in the house at which the coach stopped; and took a temperate dinner of steaks, oyster sauce, and porter.
-- At length they came back into the town; and, turning into an old public -house with a defaced sign-board, ordered some dinner by the kitchen fire.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all.
-- When dinner was over, she returned directly to Jane, and Miss Bingley began abusing her as soon as she was out of the room.
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