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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dinner followed immediately, during which an animated conversation was kept up on all sides.
-- A magnificent dinner was ready.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just before dinner two telegrams were handed in.
-- 'Would you wish dinner to be served at once, sir?'
-- I think we might employ it in getting some dinner and then, Lestrade, we will take the London fog out of your throat by giving you a breath of the pure night air of Dartmoor.
-- Might I trouble you then to be ready in half an hour, and we can stop at Marcini's for a little dinner on the way?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can take your dinner with us, or have it in your room, just as you please.
-- I recognize that ... but ' 'Father, your dinner is ready,' said Varvara at this point, putting her head in at the door.
-- Colia has put his nose in to tell us dinner is ready, twice.
-- He had a dinner party.
-- After dinner the men stayed at the table over their wine.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he said 'Hapless and dearest comrade, you it was who would get a good dinner ready for me at once and without delay when the Achaeans were hasting to fight the Trojans; now, there-fore, though I have meat and drink in my tents, yet will I fast for sorrow.
-- There he sits by the ships all desolate for the loss of his dear comrade, and though the others are gone to their dinner he will neither eat nor drink.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Mrs. Hall took his dinner in to him, he was already so absorbed in his work, pouring little drops out of the bottles into test-tubes, that he did not hear her until she had swept away the bulk of the straw and put the tray on the table, with some little emphasis perhaps, seeing the state that the floor was in.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
-- Shere Khan heard the thunder of their hoofs, picked himself up, and lumbered down the ravine, looking from side to side for some way of escape, but the walls of the ravine were straight and he had to hold on, heavy with his dinner and his drink, willing to do anything rather than fight.
-- As Rikki-tikki went up the path, he heard his 'attention' notes like a tiny dinner gong, and then the steady 'Ding-dong-tock!Nag is dead dong!Nagaina is dead!Ding-dong-tock!'
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 at last we were all assembled, waiting for dinner to be announced, I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to "take in," that civilised man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
-- I have given Anne your instructions, and dinner will be ready for you and the children when you come.
-- Chapter XVWhen I reached London I found waiting for me an urgent request that I should go to Mrs. Strickland's as soon after dinner as I could.
-- It was a dinner for a King when he brought in a huge dish of it, succulent with tomatoes, and we ate it together with the good household bread and a bottle of red wine.
-- On a rack were the plates that she had used for dinner on the night of her quarrel with Strickland, and they had been carefully washed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Come," said Pencroft, "sea-weed by way of bread, raw mussels for meat, and almonds for dessert, that's certainly a good dinner for those who have not a single match in their pocket!"
-- The honest sailor did not hide his regret at being reduced for dinner to the singing pheasants, but fortune once more showed itself obliging to him.
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