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：
-- The only food they could find was the same as the natives were forced to subsist upon, when they could find neither game, nor serpents, nor insects.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It chanced that some little time later Hugo left his guests to carry food and drink with other worse things, per-chance to his captive, and so found the cage empty and the bird escaped.
-- The light is a signal to him that food is ready for him, and his light out yonder is to show the spot to which to bring it.'
-- 'Well, it cannot be far if Barrymore had to carry out the food to it.
-- I hope to heaven that he has gone, for he has brought nothing but trouble here!I've not heard of him since I left out food for him last, and that was three days ago.'
-- 'No, sir, but the food was gone when next I went that way.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made her sleep on straw in a shed, and hardly gave her food enough to support life.
-- They gave her no food at all, and she could not get any work in the village; none would employ her.
-- 'Once two little girls got hold of some food and took it to her, and came back and told me.
-- The children were forbid-den to meet her; but they used to run out of the village to the herd and take her food and things; and sometimes just ran off there and kissed her, and said, 'Je vous aime, Marie!'
-- At sunset, on a lovely summer's evening, my little old woman passes away a thought, you will notice, which offers much food for reflection and behold!instead of tears and prayers to start her on her last journey, she has insults and jeers from a young ensign, who stands before her with his hands in his pockets, making a terrible row about a soup tureen!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For this do I oppress my people with your food and the presents that make you rich.
-- Then Ulysses said, 'Achilles, godlike and brave, send not the Achaeans thus against Ilius to fight the Trojans fasting, for the battle will be no brief one, when it is once begun, and heaven has filled both sides with fury; bid them first take food both bread and wine by the ships, for in this there is strength and stay.
-- Go, now, and take your food that we may begin fighting.'
-- You are gnawing at your own heart, and think neither of food nor of woman's embraces; and yet these too were well, for you have no long time to live, and death with the strong hand of fate are already close beside you.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am just a human being solid, needing food and drink, needing covering too But I'm invisible.
-- Give me some food and drink, and let me sit down here."
-- All my food was in a cupboard in the corner of the room.
-- After a time I crawled home, took some food and a strong dose of strychnine, and went to sleep in my clothes on my unmade bed.
-- Then I should be able, I thought, to rob the place for food and clothing, and disguised, prowl through it and examine its resources, perhaps sleep on some of the bedding.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The morning breeze blew very pleasantly through the unglazed window, and that and the food contributed to the sense of animal comfort which I experienced.
-- So I lay still there, until I began to think of food and drink; and at that thought the real hopelessness of my posi-tion came home to me.
-- 'There is food in the huts,' said an Ox-boar-man, drows-ily, and looking away from me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Enter, then, and look,' said Father Wolf stiffly, 'but there is no food here.'
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