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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon making known our desires for a supper and a bed, Mrs. Hussey, postponing further scolding for the present, ushered us into a little room, and seating us at a table spread with the relics of a recently concluded repast, turned round to us and said "Clam or Cod?"
-- For, like the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at table old Ahab forbade not conversation; only he himself was dumb.
-- Now, Ahab and his three mates formed what may be called the first table in the Pequod's cabin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Mann ushered the beadle into a small parlour with a brick floor; placed a seat for him; and officiously deposited his cocked hat and cane on the table before him.
-- There was a deal table before the fire: upon which were a candle, stuck in a ginger-beer bottle, two or three pewter pots, a loaf and butter, and a plate.
-- Seated round the table were four or five boys, none older than the Dodger, smoking long clay pipes, and drinking spirits with the air of middle-aged men.
-- 'She's a honour to her sex,' said Mr. Sikes, filling his glass, and smiting the table with his enormous fist.
-- There was a table drawn up before the window, at which Mr. Brownlow was seated reading.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth thanked him from her heart, and then walked towards the table where a few books were lying.
-- Mrs. Bennet and her daughters apologised most civilly for Lydia's interruption, and promised that it should not occur again, if he would re-sume his book; but Mr. Collins, after assuring them that he bore his young cousin no ill-will, and should never resent her behaviour as any affront, seated himself at another table with Mr. Bennet, and prepared for backgammon.
-- Mr. Wickham did not play at whist, and with ready de-light was he received at the other table between Elizabeth and Lydia.
-- The whist party soon afterwards breaking up, the play-ers gathered round the other table and Mr. Collins took his station between his cousin Elizabeth and Mrs. Phillips.
-- It now first struck her, that SHE was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Ros-ings, in the absence of more eligible visitors.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sailed with what we call a shoulder-of-mutton sail; and the boom jibed over the top of the cabin, which lay very snug and low, and had in it room for him to lie, with a slave or two, and a table to eat on, with some small lockers to put in some bottles of such liquor as he thought fit to drink; and his bread, rice, and coffee.
-- However, I made me a table and a chair, as I observed above, in the first place; and this I did out of the short piec-es of boards that I brought on my raft from the ship.
-- But having gotten over these things in some measure, and having settled my household staff and habitation, made me a table and a chair, and all as handsome about me as I could, I began to keep my journal; of which I shall here give you the copy (though in it will be told all these particulars over again) as long as it lasted; for having no more ink, I was forced to leave it off.
-- - After my morning walk I went to work with my table again, and finished it, though not to my liking; nor was it long before I learned to mend it.
-- These words were very apt to my case, and made some impression upon my thoughts at the time of reading them, though not so much as they did afterwards; for, as for being DELIVERED, the word had no sound, as I may say, to me; the thing was so remote, so impossible in my apprehension of things, that I began to say, as the children of Israel did when they were promised flesh to eat, 'Can God spread a table in the wilder-ness?'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It must be something extraordinary that could make Colonel Brandon leave my breakfast table so suddenly."
-- They saw nothing of Marianne till dinner time, when she entered the room and took her place at the table without saying a word.
-- The whole family perceived it, and Mrs. Dashwood, attributing it to some want of liberality in his mother, sat down to table indignant against all selfish parents.
-- Lucy directly drew her work table near her and reseated herself with an alacrity and cheerfulness which seemed to infer that she could taste no greater delight than in making a filigree basket for a spoilt child.
-- Elinor was soon called to the card-table by the conclusion of the first rubber, and the confidential discourse of the two ladies was therefore at an end, to which both of them submitted without any reluctance, for nothing had been said on either side to make them dislike each other less than they had done before; and Elinor sat down to the card table with the melancholy persuasion that Edward was not only without affection for the person who was to be his wife; but that he had not even the chance of being tolerably happy in marriage, which sincere affection on HER side would have given, for self-interest alone could induce a woman to keep a man to an engagement, of which she seemed so thoroughly aware that he was weary.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Drouet selected a table close by the window, where the busy rout of the street could be seen.
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