table是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 桌子； 餐桌； 工作台； 表格vt. 搁置； 提交讨论，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquer-ades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the click of china andthe rattle of silver as Pork, the valet-butler of Tara, laid the table for supper.
-- And when Scarlettdiscovered him jumping fences after his solemn promise to his wife, or learned the exact amount of his losses at poker,as she always did from County gossip, she refrained from mentioning the fact at the supper table in the artfully artlessmanner Suellen had.
-- In the mornings, after all-night sessions at births and deaths, when old Dr. Fontaine and young Dr. Fontaine wereboth out on calls and could not be found to help her, Ellen presided at the breakfast table as usual, her dark eyescircled with weariness but her voice and manner revealing none of the strain.
-- But, until then 芒聙娄 CHAPTER IV THAT NIGHT AT SUPPER, Scarlett went through the motions of presiding over the table in her mother'sabsence, but her mind was in a ferment over the dreadful news she had heard about Ashley and Melanie.
-- He had forgotten completely about his conversation with her that afternoon and was carrying on amonologue about the latest news from Fort Sumter, which he punctuated by hammering his fist on the table andwaving his arms in the air.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Joe and I got home, we found the table laid, and Mrs. Joe dressed, and the dinner dressing, and the front door unlocked (it never was at any other time) for the company to enter by, and everything most splendid.
-- Not because I was squeezed in at an acute angle of the tablecloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn't want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain.
-- O Heavens, it had come at last!He would find it was weak, he would say it was weak, and I was lost!I held tight to the leg of the table under the cloth, with both hands, and awaited my fate.
-- All this time Mrs. Joe and Joe were briskly clearing the table for the pie and pudding.
-- Always holding tight by the leg of the table with my hands and feet, I saw the miserable creature finger his glass playfully, take it up, smile, throw his head back, and drink the brandy off.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, I see a table spread with all kinds of good things, and robbers sitting round it making merry.'
-- She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on tap, tap plash, plash from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the prin-cess sat.
-- Meantime the master looked to see what the table was prop-erly laid, and took the great knife, wherewith he was going to carve the chickens, and sharpened it on the steps.
-- 154 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON here was once a very old man, whose eyes had become Tdim, his ears dull of hearing, his knees trembled, and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the spoon, and spilt the broth upon the table-cloth or let it run out of his mouth.
-- And he used to look to- wards the table with his eyes full of tears.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The emperor lays on the table three fine silken threads of six inches long; one is blue, the oth-er red, and the third green.
-- Having a head mechanically turned, and be-ing likewise forced by necessity, I had made for myself a table and chair convenient enough, out of the largest trees in the royal park.
-- 116 Gulliver's Travels I was placed upon a table in the largest room of the inn, which might be near three hundred feet square.
-- I walked about on the table as the girl commanded; she asked me questions, as far as she knew my understanding of the language reached, and I answered them as loud as I could.
-- My master, for his own interest, would not suffer any one to touch me except my nurse; and to prevent danger, benches were set round the table at such a distance as to put me out of every body's reach.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
-- 'It's as well known in the town as please, sir, as the multiplication table isn't known to the horse-riders.'
-- It is lamentable to think of; but this restraint was the result of no arithmetical process, was self-imposed in defiance of all calculation, and went dead against any table of probabilities that any Actuary would have drawn up from the premises.
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