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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's better so, you know, Gania especially as, from one point of view, the matter may be considered as settled,' said Ptitsin; and sitting down a little way from the table he began to study a paper covered with pencil writing.
-- Here he threw a packet of banknotes tied up in white paper, on the table before her, not daring to say all he wished to say.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the meat was roast-ed, he set it on platters, and handed bread round the table in fair baskets, while Achilles dealt them their portions.
-- First she set for them a fair and well-made table that had feet of cyanus; on it there was a vessel of bronze and an onion to give relish to the drink, with honey and cakes of barley-meal.
-- Any one else would hardly have been able to lift it from the table when it was full, but Nestor could do so quite easily.
-- Have pity also on your unhappy father while life yet remains to him on me, whom the son of Saturn will destroy by a terrible doom on the threshold of old age, after I have seen my sons slain and my daughters haled away as captives, my bridal chambers pillaged, little children dashed to earth amid the rage of battle, and my sons' wives dragged away by the cruel hands of the Achaeans; in the end fierce hounds will tear me in pieces at my own gates after some one has beaten the life out of my body with sword or spear-hounds that I myself reared and fed at my own table to guard my gates, but who will yet lap my blood and then lie all distraught at my doors.
-- Some one or other of these may so far pity him as to hold the cup for a moment towards him and let him moisten his lips, but he must not drink enough to wet the roof of his mouth; then one whose parents are alive will drive him from the table with blows and angry words.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made no answer, and had turned his face away from her again, and Mrs. Hall, feeling that her conversational advances were ill-timed, laid the rest of the table things in a quick staccato and whisked out of the room.
-- Then he swung round and approached the table with a certain eager quickness.
-- This done, he returned with an easier air to the table and his meal.
-- And from it he began to produce bottles little fat bottles containing powders, small and slender bottles containing coloured and white fluids, fluted blue bottles labeled Poison, bottles with round bodies and slender necks, large green-glass bottles, large white- glass bottles, bottles with glass stoppers and frosted labels, bottles with fine corks, bottles with bungs, bottles with wooden caps, wine bottles, salad-oil bottles putting them in rows on the chiffonnier, on the mantel, on the table under the window, round the floor, on the bookshelf everywhere.
-- Crate after crate yielded bottles, until all six were empty and the table high with straw; the only things that came out of these crates besides the bottles were a number of test-tubes and a carefully packed balance.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I sat as far away from him as possible, the table between us and the revolvers to hand.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rikki-tikki saw Teddy's father shoot out a big hand, catch Teddy by the shoulder, and drag him across the little table with the tea-cups, safe and out of reach of Nagaina.
-- Petersen Sahib came in on his clever she-elephant Pud-mini; he had been paying off other camps among the hills, for the season was coming to an end, and there was a native clerk sitting at a table under a tree, to pay the drivers their wages.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The meals in the artistic little dining-room were pleasant; the table looked nice, the two maids were trim and comely; the food was well cooked.
-- I think perhaps I should have made a show of the indignation I really felt, and I am sure that Colonel MacAndrew at least would have thought well of me if I had been able to report my stout refusal to sit at the same table with a man of such character.
-- We found Blanche Stroeve laying the table for dinner.
-- I followed them rather sulkily to the table at which Strickland always sat, and he called for the board and the chessmen.
-- He entered the room quickly, and came up to the table at which I sat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the animal's flesh it would furnish excellent food, for in the islands of the Malay Archipelago and elsewhere, it is especially reserved for the table of the native princes.
-- On the reporter observing that since the table was spread for the rabbits, it was strange that the rabbits themselves should be wanting, the two sportsmen carefully explored the warren.
-- Bread alone was wanting at the table of the settlers, and as has been said, they felt this privation greatly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young man reclined against a table at no great distance from his friend, in apparent indifference to everything that had passed; and I who felt the difficulty of any interference, notwithstanding that the old man had appealed to me, both by words and looks made the best feint I could of being occupied in examining some of the goods that were disposed for sale, and paying very little attention to a person before me.
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