food是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 食物， 粮食， 养料，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not a woman who could hope on without good materials for the process, differing thus from the less far-sighted and energetic, though more petted ones of the sex, with whom hope goes on as a sort of clockwork which the merest food and shelter are sufficient to wind up; and perceiving clearly that her mistake had been a fatal one, she accepted her position, and waited coldly for the end.
-- Bathsheba was not a woman to be made a fool of, or a woman to suffer in silence; and how could he endure existence with a spirited wife to whom at first entering he would be beholden for food and lodging?
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where else in Paris would they have found wholesome food in sufficient quantity at the prices she charged them, and rooms which they were at liberty to make, if not exactly elegant or comfortable, at any rate clean and healthy?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.
-- Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
-- Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete!
-- I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers.
-- 'It was about seven in the morning, and I longed to ob-tain food and shelter; at length I perceived a small hut, on a rising ground, which had doubtless been built for the con-venience of some shepherd.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The high-pitched, childish voice answered "Yas'm," and there were sounds of footsteps going out the back way towardthe smokehouse where Ellen would ration out the food to the home-coming hands.
-- She had wanted him, in that first instant, wanted him as simply and unreasoningly as she wanted food to eat,horses to ride and a soft bed on which to lay herself.
-- She shouted for her impatiently,knowing she could raise her voice with impunity, as Ellen was in the smokehouse, measuring out the day's food toCookie.
-- In her large black hands was a tray upon which food smoked,two large yams covered with butter, a pile of buckwheat cakes dripping syrup, and a large slice of ham swimming ingravy.
-- In the excitement of trying on dresses she had forgotten Mammy's ironclad rule that, before going to anyparty, the O'Hara girls must be crammed so full of food at home they would be unable to eat any refreshments at theparty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I said that I would get him the file, and I would get him what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning.
-- He crammed what little food was left, into the breast of his gray jacket.
-- She wanders about in the night, and then lays hands on such food as she takes."
-- Some of his teeth had failed him since I saw him eat on the marshes, and as he turned his food in his mouth, and turned his head sideways to bring his strongest fangs to bear upon it, he looked terribly like a hungry old dog.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That is not done quite as you seem to think,' said the wolf; 'you must wait until the Queen comes,' Soon afterwards, the Queen arrived with some food in her beak, and the lord King came too, and they began to feed their young ones.
-- The young willow-wrens, however, continued to cry and scream, and when their parents again brought food they said: 'We will not so much as touch one fly's leg, no, not if we were dying of hunger, until you have settled whether we are respectable children or not; the bear has been here and has insulted us!'
-- Then good food was set before them, milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts.
-- And now the best food was cooked for poor Hansel, but Gretel got nothing but crab-shells.
-- The sausage had only to watch the pot to see that the food was properly cooked, and when it was near dinner-time, he just threw himself into the broth, or rolled in and out among the vegetables three or four times, and there they were, but-tered, and salted, and ready to be served.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and find-ing it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians.
-- The clothes and food of the children are plain 69and simple.
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