consume是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 消耗； 吃完， 喝光； (with) 使着迷； 烧毁，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：
-- Another strange notion is, that in eating a dead enemy they consume his spiritual being, and so inherit his soul, his strength and his bravery, which they hold are specially lodged in the brain.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Crook-foot,' she cried, 'my child, be up and doing, for I deem it is with you that Xanthus is fain to fight; help us at once, kindle a fierce fire; I will then bring up the west and the white south wind in a mighty hurricane from the sea, that shall bear the flames against the heads and ar-mour of the Trojans and consume them, while you go along the banks of Xanthus burning his trees and wrapping him round with fire.
-- Twelve brave sons of noble Trojans shall the flames consume along with yourself, but dogs, not fire, shall devour the flesh of Hector son of Priam.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Stokes of St. Swithin's secretly wrote to Dr. Max Gottlieb, Director of the McGurk Institute, that the plague was ready to flare up and consume all the West Indies, and would Dr. Gottlieb do something about it?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, with an eagerness that seemedenough to consume her like a fire.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were wild and miserable thoughts, but I cannot de-scribe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me and how I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
-- I shall quit your vessel on the ice raft which brought me thither and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch who would create such another as I have been.
-- I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Assistance was sent for, and I held her until it came, as if I unreasonably fancied (I think I did) that, if I let her go, the fire would break out again and consume her.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt she could consume herself and know all, by means of this fatal, living metal.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- I made his honour my most humble acknowledgments for the good opinion he was pleased to conceive of me, but assured him at the same time, 'that my birth was of the lower sort, having been born of plain honest parents, who were just able to give me a tolerable education; that nobil-ity, among us, was altogether a different thing from the idea he had of it; that our young noblemen are bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury; that, as soon as years 326 Gulliver's Travelswill permit, they consume their vigour, and contract odi-ous diseases among lewd females; and when their fortunes are almost ruined, they marry some woman of mean birth, disagreeable person, and unsound constitution (merely for the sake of money), whom they hate and despise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you are one of those who want us to consume it, I differ from you.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A smart shower at eleven had evidently quenched the enthusiasm of the young ladies who were to arrive at twelve, for nobody came, and at two the exhausted family sat down in a blaze of sunshine to consume the per-ishable portions of the feast, that nothing might be lost.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some harpooneers will consume almost an entire morning in this business, carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists.
-- But all this is quite different with a South Sea Sperm Whaler; which in a voyage of four years perhaps, after completely filling her hold with oil, does not, perhaps, consume fifty days in the business of boiling out; and in the state that it is casked, the oil is nearly scentless.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon the whole, I found that the forty bushels of barley and rice were much more than I could consume in a year; so I resolved to sow just the same quantity every year that I sowed the last, in hopes that such a quantity would fully provide me with bread, &c. All the while these things were doing, you may be sure my thoughts ran many times upon the prospect of land which I had seen from the other side of the island; and I was not without secret wishes that I were on shore there, fancy-ing that, seeing the mainland, and an inhabited country, I might find some way or other to convey myself further, and perhaps at last find some means of escape.
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