vegetable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 蔬菜， 植物a. 植物的， 蔬菜的，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 lungs are satisfied with a provision of vegetable and farinaceous food.
-- The vegetable aliments consisted of edible ferns, sweet potatoes, the "convolvulus batatas," which was indigenous, and the potato which had been imported long before by the Europeans.
-- The vegetable kingdom took possession of this new land.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From these decayed sons and daughters of Gaul, she had acquired such wonderful arts, that the woman and girl who formed the staff of domestics regarded her as quite a Sorceress, or Cinderella's Godmother: who would send out for a fowl, a rabbit, a vegetable or two from the garden, and change them into anything she pleased.
-- Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A distant part of the estate, a tract of waste land that had lain fallow for eight years, was with the help of the clever carpenter, Fyodor Ryezunov, taken by six families of peasants on new conditions of partnership, and the peasant Shuraev took the management of all the vegetable gardens on the same terms.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He draws his metaphors from the clouds, the seasons, the birds, the beasts, and the vegetable world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The refuse was notwholly vegetable either, for I myself saw a shoe, a doubled-upsaucepan, a black bonnet, and an umbrella, in various stages ofdecomposition, as I was looking out for the number I wanted.
-- Ieven entertained some idea of putting myself on a vegetable diet,vaguely conceiving that, in becoming a graminivorous animal, Ishould sacrifice to Dora.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.
-- Flossy catkins of the later kinds, fern-sprouts like bishops' croziers, the square-headed moschatel, the odd cuckoo-pint, like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite, snow-white ladies'-smocks, the toothwort, approximating to human flesh, the enchanter's night-shade, and the black-petaled doleful-bells, were among the quainter objects of the vegetable world in and about Weatherbury at this teeming time; and of the animal, the metamorphosed figures of Mr. Jan Coggan, the master-shearer; the second and third shearers, who travelled in the exercise of their calling, and do not require definition by name; Henery Fray the fourth shearer, Susan Tall's husband the fifth, Joseph Poorgrass the sixth, young Cain Ball as assistant-shearer, and Gabriel Oak as general supervisor.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the end, wisely and carefully we shall readjust the balance of animal and vegetable life to suit our human needs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!"
-- Amongst them, I remarked some women, dressed from the hips to knees in quite a crinoline of herbs, that sustained a vegetable waistband.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was quite natural that I should expect to find these signs, for during the Silurian period the seas contained no fewer than fifteen hundred different animal and vegetable species.
-- Then came about the action of natural chemistry; in the depths of the ocean the vegetable mass at first became turf, then, thanks to the influence of gases and subterranean fermentation, they underwent the complete process of mineralization.
-- What must have been the aspect of the globe, during the first centuries of its formation, when under the combined action of heat and humidity, the vegetable kingdom occupied its vast surface to the exclusion of everything else?
-- Since nature had shown herself capable of producing such stupendous vegetable supplies, why might we not meet with mammals just as large, and therefore dangerous?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No trees were to be seen, nor any vegetable growth save a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This vegetable cable was fastened to the after-part of the raft, and the sailor held it in his hand while Herbert, pushing off the raft with a long pole, kept it in the current.
-- The reporter and the engineer went together, Gideon Spilett ready to note every incident, the engineer silent for the most part, and only stepping aside to pick up one thing or another, a mineral or vegetable substance, which he put into his pocket, without making any remark.
-- Other ropes were made with vegetable fibers, and a sort of crane with a tackle was fixed at the door.
-- At any rate, it produced an abundance of useful plants, and a naturalist would have had a good opportunity of studying many specimens of the vegetable kingdom.
-- The wicks, after several trials, were made of vegetable fibers, and dipped in the liquefied substance, they formed regular stearic candles, molded by the hand, which only wanted whiteness and polish.
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