mutton是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 羊肉，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An hour and a half limped heavily away in the thief-and-rascal crowded passages below, even though assisted off with mutton pies and ale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and the morning schoolroom which wasnothing but a great shivering-machine; of the alternation of boiledbeef with roast beef, and boiled mutton with roast mutton; of clodsof bread-and-butter, dog'seared lesson-books, cracked slates, tear-blotted copy-books, canings, rulerings, hair-cuttings, rainySundays, suet puddings, and a dirty atmosphere of inksurrounding all.
-- He was so polite as to stop at a public-house, expressly on ouraccount, and entertain us with broiled mutton and beer.
-- We sat before a little fire, with two bricks put within the rustedgrate, one on each side, to prevent its burning too many coals; untilanother debtor, who shared the room with Mr. Micawber, came infrom the bakehouse with the loin of mutton which was our joint-stock repast.
-- The leg of mutton came up very red within, and verypale without: besides having a foreign substance of a gritty naturesprinkled over it, as if it had had a fall into the ashes of thatremarkable kitchen fire-place.
-- The division of labour to which hehad referred was this:- Traddles cut the mutton into slices; Mr.Micawber (who could do anything of this sort to perfection)covered them with pepper, mustard, salt, and cayenne; I put themon the gridiron, turned them with a fork, and took them off, underMr. Micawber's direction; and Mrs. Micawber heated, andcontinually stiffed, some mushroom ketchup in a little saucepan.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had not advanced many yards from Mrs. Goddard's door, when she was met by Mr. Elton himself, evidently coming towards it, and as they walked on slowly together in conversation about the invalid of whom he, on the ru-mour of considerable illness, had been going to inquire, that he might carry some report of her to Hartfield they were overtaken by Mr. John Knightley returning from the daily visit to Donwell, with his two eldest boys, whose healthy, glowing faces shewed all the benefit of a country run, and seemed to ensure a quick despatch of the roast mutton and rice pudding they were hastening home for.
-- The aunt was as tiresome as ever; more tiresome, because anxiety for her health was now added to admiration of her powers; and they had to listen to the description of exactly how little bread and butter she ate for breakfast, and how small a slice of mutton for dinner, as well as to see exhibi-tions of new caps and new workbags for her mother and herself; and Jane's offences rose again.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dish up the rest of the mutton with the potatoes, and you can put the stewed pears on the table, those at five a penny."
-- Michonneau, and Poiret came downstairs together; possibly the scent of the gravy which Sylvie was making to serve with the mutton had announced breakfast.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the last forkful of pork and chicken and mutton had been eaten, Scarlett hoped the time had come whenIndia would rise and suggest that the ladies retire to the house.
-- The butcher shopscarried almost no beef and very little mutton, and that mutton cost so much only the rich could afford it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The administration of mutton instead of medicine, the substitution of Tea for Joe, and the baker for bacon, were among the mildest of my own mistakes.
-- It was a noble dish of fish that the housekeeper had put on table, and we had a joint of equally choice mutton afterwards, and then an equally choice bird.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their mutton yields to ours, but their beef is excellent.
-- In the first course, there was a shoulder of mutton cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid.
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：
-- The sun shone into the bare room, which still smelled of a mutton chop, done in a dutch oven before the fire, be-cause the dutch oven still stood on the fender, with the black potato-saucepan on a piece of paper, beside it on the white hearth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the sleepy Sunday of his boyhood, when, like a military deserter, he was marched to chapel by a picquet of teachers three times a day, morally handcuffed to another boy; and when he would willingly have bartered two meals of indigestible sermon for another ounce or two of inferior mutton at his scanty dinner in the flesh.
-- The banquet was appointed for a Sunday, and Miss Rugg with her own hands stuffed a leg of mutton with oysters on the occasion, and sent it to the baker's not the baker's but an opposition establishment.
-- Did anybody ever find boiled mutton and caper-sauce growing in a cocoa-nut?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor did Meg miss any of the ro-mance from the daily parting, when her husband followed up his kiss with the tender inquiry, 'Shall I send some veal or mutton for dinner, darling?'
-- Uncle rushed out and bought a pair of dogskin gloves, some ugly, thick shoes, and an umbrella, and got shaved 'a la mutton chop, the first thing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The crowd had only the satisfaction of accompanying Oliver through two or three streets, and down a place called Mutton Hill, when he was led beneath a low archway, and up a dirty court, into this dispensary of summary justice, by the back way.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now I wished for my boy Xury, and the long-boat with shoulder-of- mutton sail, with which I sailed above a thou-sand miles on the coast of Africa; but this was in vain: then I thought I would go and look at our ship's boat, which, as I have said, was blown up upon the shore a great way, in the storm, when we were first cast away.
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