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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Robert took a little food with the rest.
-- A large quantity of dry fodder was discovered lying heaped up in the RAMADA, and this supplied them amply with both food and bedding.
-- In a moment, as if some fireworks were being ignited, the flame ran along the west side of the OMBU; the dead wood and nests of dried grass, and the whole sap, which was of a spongy texture, supplied food for its devouring activity.
-- Should this lack of food and water continue till evening, they would all sink on the road, never to rise again.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Granting that the White Whale fully incites the hearts of this my savage crew, and playing round their savageness even breeds a certain generous knight-errantism in them, still, while for the love of it they give chase to Moby Dick, they must also have food for their more common, daily appetites.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be 'farmed,' or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week.
-- 'Don't make your eyes red, Oliver, but eat your food and be thankful,' said Mr. Bumble, in a tone of impressive pomposity.
-- Mr. Sowerberry was closeted with the board for five minutes; and it was arranged that Oliver should go to him that evening 'upon liking'--a phrase which means, in the case of a parish apprentice, that if the master find, upon a short trial, that he can get enough work out of a boy without putting too much food into him, he shall have him for a term of years, to do what he likes with.
-- This affords charming food for contemplation.
-- She wanted clothes to keep her warm, and food to eat; but she had kept it safe, and had it in her bosom.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have been used to consider poetry as the FOOD of love,' said Darcy.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My stock was but low, as well as his; and we rather planted for food than anything else, for about two years.
-- - In the morning I saw, to my great surprise, the ship had floated with the high tide, and was driven on shore again much nearer the island; which, as it was some comfort, on one hand - for, seeing her set upright, and not broken to pieces, I hoped, if the wind abated, I might get on board, and get some food and necessaries out of her for my relief - so, on the other hand, it renewed my grief at the loss of my comrades, who, I imagined, if we had all stayed on board, might have saved the ship, or, at least, that they would not have been all drowned as they were; and that, had the men been saved, we might perhaps have built us a boat out of the ruins of the ship to have carried us to some other part of the world.
-- This was the first time that I entertained a thought of breeding up some tame creatures, that I might have food when my powder and shot was all spent.
-- In this confinement, I began to be straitened for food: but venturing out twice, I one day killed a goat; and the last day, which was the 26th, found a very large tortoise, which was a treat to me, and my food was regulated thus: I ate a bunch of raisins for my breakfast; a piece of the goat's flesh, or of the turtle, for my dinner, broiled - for, to mygreat misfortune, I had no vessel to boil or stew anything; and two or three of the turtle's eggs for my supper.
-- At last, being eager to view the circum-ference of my little kingdom, I resolved upon my cruise; and accordingly I victualled my ship for the voyage, putting in two dozen of loaves (cakes I should call them) of bar-ley-bread, an earthen pot full of parched rice (a food I ate a good deal of), a little bottle of rum, half a goat, and pow-der and shot for killing more, and two large watch-coats, of those which, as I mentioned before, I had saved out of the seamen's chests; these I took, one to lie upon, and the other to cover me in the night.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The contemplation of food had more significance than usual.
-- She had had no word from any quarter, she had spent a dollar of her precious sum in procuring food and paying car fare.
-- Time, however, introduced food for reflection.
-- A little food in the stomach does wonders.
-- "I shouldn't care to be rich," he told her, as the dinner proceeded and the supply of food warmed up his sympathies; "not rich enough to spend my money this way."
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some took a nibble, some took a bite, but no sooner had they tasted a page or two, than they spat them out with a wry face, as if to say: "What a horrid taste!Our own food is so much better!"
-- "Do you think, perhaps, my little Donkey, that I have brought you here only to give you food and drink?
-- "A poor father and a poorer son, without food and with no roof to cover them," answered the Marionette.
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