taste是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 品尝； (of) 有…味道； 体验n. 滋味； 味觉，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, sir, we've got a young relation ofhers here, under articles to us, that has as elegant a taste in thedress-making business- I assure you I don't believe there's aduchess in England can touch her.'
-- I did not like to leave him, under such circumstances, and we allthree dined together off a beefsteak pie- which was one of themany good things for which Peggotty was famous- and which wascuriously flavoured on this occasion, I recollect well, by amiscellaneous taste of tea, coffee, butter, bacon, cheese, new loaves,firewood, candles, and walnut ketchup, continually ascendingfrom the shop.
-- But Iapprehend that we were personally unfortunate in engaging aservant with a taste for cordials, who swelled our running accountfor porter at the public-house by such inexplicable items as'quartern rum shrub (Mrs. C.)'; 'Halfquartern gin and cloves (Mrs.C.)'; 'Glass rum and peppermint (Mrs. C.)';- the parentheses alwaysreferring to Dora, who was supposed, it appeared on explanation,to have imbibed the whole of these refreshments.
-- She courted Jip, though Jip neverresponded; listened, day after day, to the guitar, though I amafraid she had no taste for music; never attacked the Incapables,though the temptation must have been severe; went wonderfuldistances on foot to purchase, as surprises, any trifles that shefound out Dora wanted; and never came in by the garden, andmissed her from the room, but she would call out, at the foot of thestairs, in a voice that sounded cheerfully all over the house'Where'sLittle, Blossom?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It must be done directly; it must be done in London; the order must go through the hands of some intelligent person whose taste could be depended on; and Isabella, the usual doer of all commissions, must not be applied to, because it was December, and Mr. Woodhouse could not bear the idea of her stirring out of her house in the fogs of December.
-- Emma felt the bad taste of her friend, but let it pass with a 'very true; and it would be a small consolation to her, for the clownish manner which might be offending her every hour of the day, to know that her husband could write a good letter.'
-- This does not apply, however, to Miss Bates; she is only too good natured and too silly to suit me; but, in general, she is very much to the taste of every body, though single and though poor.
-- To be sure, the charade, with its 'ready wit' but then the 'soft eyes' in fact it suited neither; it was a jumble without taste or truth.
-- 'My idea of him is, that he can adapt his conversation to the taste of every body, and has the power as well as the wish of being universally agreeable.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He liked saying "Bathsheba" as a private enjoyment instead of whistling; turned over his taste to black hair, though he had sworn by brown ever since he was a boy, isolated himself till the space he filled in the public eye was contemptibly small.
-- "Now the first man in the parish that I hear prophesying bad of our mistress, why" (here the fist was raised and let fall as Thor might have done with his hammer in assaying it) "he'll smell and taste that or I'm a Dutchman."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Duchess' expression grew colder, she did not like the flippant tone of these remarks, and showed that she considered them to be in bad taste by turning to the Vicomtesse with--"This gentleman has only just come----" Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your af-fections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is cer-tainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
-- Ah!If you knew what I have suffered and what I may yet endure, you would endeavour to let me taste the quiet and 237freedom from despair that this one day at least permits me to enjoy.'
-- My life, as it passed thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 芒聙娄 "Pa, I thought that we'd give the Yanks a taste of their own medicine but the General says No, and personally Idon't care to get shot just for the pleasure of burning some Yank's house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Must they!Let them not hope to taste it!
-- It was a hurried breakfast with no taste in it.
-- She then smiled upon me in an absent state of mind, and asked me if I liked the taste of orange-flower water?
-- We dived into the City, and came up in a crowded police-court, where a blood-relation (in the murderous sense) of the deceased, with the fanciful taste in brooches, was standing at the bar, uncomfortably chewing something; while my guardian had a woman under examination or cross-examination,--I don't know which,--and was striking her, and the bench, and everybody present, with awe.
-- Notwithstanding my inability to settle to anything,--which I hope arose out of the restless and incomplete tenure on which I held my means,--I had a taste for reading, and read regularly so many hours a day.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon afterwards the wolf came and wished him joy, and said, 'Now, my good fellow, you must tell no tales, but turn your head the other way when I want to taste one of the old shepherd's fine fat sheep.'
-- 'This won't taste bitter,' said he, 'but I will just finish the jacket before I take a bite.'
-- I will eat a bit of the roof, and you Gretel, can eat some of the window, it will taste sweet.'
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