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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In order to prepare for dinner it was necessary that the settlers should return to their dwelling.
-- At five o'clock dinner was served in the dining-room of Granite House.
-- The dinner ended less gaily than Pencroft had hoped.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This dinner today closes Long Acre.
-- Why, I remember the time when old Maunders as had three-and-twenty wans I remember the time when old Maunders had in his cottage in Spa Fields in the winter time, when the season was over, eight male and female dwarfs setting down to dinner every day, who was waited on by eight old giants in green coats, red smalls, blue cotton stockings, and high-lows: and there was one dwarf as had grown elderly and wicious who whenever his giant wasn't quick enough to please him, used to stick pins in his legs, not being able to reach up any higher.
-- Enjoining Tom Scott to await his return, and not to stand upon his head, or throw a summerset, or so much as walk upon his hands meanwhile, on pain of lingering torments, the dwarf threw himself into a boat, and crossing to the other side of the river, and then speeding away on foot, reached Mr Swiveller's usual house of entertainment in Bevis Marks, just as that gentleman sat down alone to dinner in its dusky parlour.
-- 'Certainly not,' replied Mr Swiveller, eating his dinner with great gravity, 'none like her.
-- Quilp looked at his companion with his eyes screwed up into a comical expression of curiosity, and patiently awaited his further explanation; upon which, however, Mr Swiveller appeared in no hurry to enter, as he ate a very long dinner in profound silence, finally pushed away his plate, threw himself back into his chair, folded his arms, and stared ruefully at the fire, in which some ends of cigars were smoking on their own account, and sending up a fragrant odour.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She said that unless he gave her the money there would be no dinner that night, and that he would have to dine outside.
-- Then came the gold-spectacled, gloomy member of the court-- now even more gloomy, for before the opening of the session he met his brother-in-law, a candidate for a judicial office, who told him that he had seen his sister, and that she declared that there would be no dinner at home this day.
-- Before dinner he would lie down in the woods and sleep; then, at dinner, he made merry, jesting with his aunts; then went out riding or rowing.
-- On the day of his departure, after dinner he waited in the passage until she ca me by.
-- The dinner at the Korchagin's came to his mind, and he looked at his watch.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He asks me in this note to lead off with dinner at seven if he's not back.
-- "It seems a pity to let the dinner spoil," said the Editor of a well-known daily paper; and thereupon the Doctor rang the bell.
-- The dinner was resumed.
-- The rest of the dinner was uncomfortable.
-- "However, I am telling you of my fruit dinner in the distant future now.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Tis an honour to see me, a favour to hear:'Tis a privilege high to have dinner and teaAlong with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me!"'
-- 'I won't be introduced to the pudding, please,' Alice said rather hastily, 'or we shall get no dinner at all.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Livesey came late one afternoon to see the patient, took a bit of dinner from my mother, and went into the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should come down from the hamlet, for we had no stabling at the old Benbow.
-- After dinner the squire and the doctor sat by the captain's side awhile in consultation; and when they had talked to their hearts' content, it being then a little past noon, the doctor took up his hat and pistols, girt on a cutlass, put the chart in his pocket, and with a musket over his shoulder crossed the palisade on the north side and set off briskly through the trees.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But, dinner or breakfast, the steward will be welcome, whichever he brings."
-- "Master Land, we must conform to the rules on board, and I suppose our appetites are in advance of the dinner hour."
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