fork是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 叉， 耙； 叉形物； 餐叉，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：
-- The water had risen to the top of the trunk, just to where the parent branches fork out.
-- This he laid on a bed of damp leaves, just where the large branches began to fork out, forming a natural hearth, where there was little fear of conflagration.
-- But Paganel was too busily engaged with his knife and fork to lose a single mouthful, though he did his best to eat and talk at the same time.
-- He went on and on, gesticulating furiously, and brandishing his fork to the imminent danger of his neighbors.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a stump of a dead tree oak or pine as it may be some six feet above the ground, and not yet rotted away by rain; it stands at the fork of the road; it has two white stones set one on each side, and there is a clear course all round it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The jolly old grandfather unto this, retorts, not only that he declines to fork out with that cheerful readiness which is always so agreeable and pleasant in a gentleman of his time of life, but that he will bow up, and call names, and make reflections whenever they meet.
-- Here he by no means diminished the impression he had just produced, for he ate hard eggs, shell and all, devoured gigantic prawns with the heads and tails on, chewed tobacco and water-cresses at the same time and with extraordinary greediness, drank boiling tea without winking, bit his fork and spoon till they bent again, and in short performed so many horrifying and uncommon acts that the women were nearly frightened out of their wits, and began to doubt if he were really a human creature.
-- 'May the present moment,' said Dick, sticking his fork into a large carbuncular potato, 'be the worst of our lives!I like the plan of sending 'em with the peel on; there's a charm in drawing a potato from its native element (if I may so express it) to which the rich and powerful are strangers.
-- The landlord now busied himself in laying the cloth, in which process Mr Codlin obligingly assisted by setting forth his own knife and fork in the most convenient place and establishing himself behind them.
-- And in this kitchen, Kit sat himself down at a table as white as a tablecloth, to eat cold meat, and drink small ale, and use his knife and fork the more awkwardly, because there was an unknown Barbara looking on and observing him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that the Editor turned to his knife and fork with a grunt, and the Silent Man followed suit.
-- "What a treat it is to stick a fork into meat again!"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She slipped her fork to the floor, and hastily dived under the cloth to conceal her emotion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A knife and fork and an apartment,' proceeded Mr Sparkler, growing, in comparison with his oratorical antecedents, quite diffuse, 'will ever be at Amy's disposal.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if he were not lively about it, if he did not go with a nimble hop-skip-and-jump, then Tashtego had an ungentlemanly way of accelerating him by darting a fork at his back, harpoon-wise.
-- he cried at length, widening his legs still further, as if to form a more secure base for his supper; and, at the same time darting his fork into the dish, as if stabbing with his lance; "cook, you cook! sail this way, cook!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm at low-water-mark myself--only one bob and a magpie; but, as far as it goes, I'll fork out and stump.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stopped with a mouthful of pie poised on a fork before his face.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim can do that; and when he wants to send any little common ordinary mysterious message to let the world know where he's captivated, he can write it on the bottom of a tin plate with a fork and throw it out of the window.
-- Jim he never let on but what it was only just a piece of rock or something like that that's always getting into bread, you know; but after that he never bit into nothing but what he jabbed his fork into it in three or four places first.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he had not looked at her long when he gave a cry of surprise and sat there with his eyes wide open, his fork in the air, and his mouth filled with bread and cauliflower.
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