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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only inconvenience is, that none of these projects are yet brought to perfection; and in the mean time, the whole country lies miserably waste, the houses in ruins, and the people without food or clothes.
-- And he proposed further, 'that by employing spiders, the charge of dyeing silks should be wholly saved;' 226 Gulliver's Travelswhereof I was fully convinced, when he showed me a vast number of flies most beautifully coloured, wherewith he fed his spiders, assuring us 'that the webs would take a tincture from them; and as he had them of all hues, he hoped to fit everybody's fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and consistence to the threads.'
-- The food of the Houyhnhnms.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect of going without food and sleep was not a promising one, so I determined to do my best to solve the mystery.
-- My uncle, who now was simply Professor Hardwigg, was so eager to advance, that he bolted his food like a greedy clown.
-- It would, of course, find quite sufficient food from the fish in the sea.
-- The boxes which contained our supply of food for the voyage were placed in a row along the strand, and were in a capital state of preservation; the sea had in every case respected their contents, and to sum up in one sentence, taking into consideration, biscuits, salt meat, Schiedam and dried fish, we could still calculate on having about four months' supply, if used with prudence and caution.
-- In the first place, I required no food just at present, having had an excellent meal, and was therefore allowed time for reflection.
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：
-- He tramped with a quiet inevitability over the brick floor, putting food for the dog in a brown bowl.
-- Connie squatted in her torn nightdress, and fell on her food hungrily.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last of the Patriarchs had always been a mighty eater, and he disposed of an immense quantity of solid food with the benignity of a good soul who was feeding some one else.
-- His wonderful enterprise, his wonderful wealth, his wonderful Bank, were the fattening food of the evening paper that night.
-- He took his usual poor eighteenpennyworth of food in his usual indigestive way, and had as little to say for himself as ever a wonderful man had.
-- The dinner and dessert being three hours long, the bashful Member cooled in the shadow of Lord Decimus faster than he warmed with food and drink, and had but a chilly time of it.
-- 'I must openly admit that I have no pretensions,' said Flora, 'but having known the dear little thing which under altered circumstances appears a liberty but is not so intended and Goodness knows there was no favour in half-a-crown a-day to such a needle as herself but quite the other way and as to anything lowering in it far from it the labourer is worthy of his hire and I am sure I only wish he got it oftener and more animal food and less rheumatism in the back and legs poor soul.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was plenty of food in the larder, and while Beth and Amy set the table, Meg and Jo got breakfast, wondering as they did why servants ever talked about hard work.
-- Feeling very much out of sorts herself, Jo hurried into the parlor to find Beth sobbing over Pip, the canary, who lay dead in the cage with his little claws pathetically extended, as if imploring the food for want of which he had died.
-- It was play then, but there came a time when I was truly grateful that I not only possessed the will but the power to cook wholesome food for my little girls, and help myself when I could no longer afford to hire help.
-- I didn't mind, for I like 'to see folks eat with a relish', as Hannah says, and the poor man must have needed a deal of food after teaching idiots all day.
-- She put them in his but-tonhole as a peace offering, and he stood a minute looking down at them with a curious expression, for in the Italian part of his nature there was a touch of superstition, and he was just then in that state of half-sweet, half-bitter melan-choly, when imaginative young men find significance in trifles and food for romance everywhere.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our appetites being sharpened by the frosty voyage, and in particular, Queequeg seeing his favourite fishing food before him, and the chowder being surpassingly excellent, we despatched it with great expedition: when leaning back a moment and bethinking me of Mrs. Hussey's clam and cod announcement, I thought I would try a little experiment.
-- While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
-- In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing everything out to the last, literally died at his post.
-- But I have every reason to believe that the food of the sperm whale squid or cuttle-fish lurks at the bottom of that sea, because large creatures, but by no means the largest of that sort, have been found at its surface.
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