feed是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (on， with) 喂养， 饲养； (with) 向…供给，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And to feed them on board, I had a good bundle of hay, and a bag of corn.
-- The rest of my cattle I got safe ashore, and set them a-grazing in a bowling-green at Greenwich, where the fineness of the grass made them feed very heartily, though I had always feared the contrary: neither could I possibly have preserved them in so long a voyage, if the captain had not allowed me some of his best biscuit, which, rubbed to powder, and mingled with water, was their constant food.
-- However, now and then they take a whale that happens to be dashed against the rocks, which the common people feed on heartily.
-- He then began to find fault with other parts of my body: 'the flatness of my face, the prominence of my nose, mine eyes 306 Gulliver's Travelsplaced directly in front, so that I could not look on either side without turning my head: that I was not able to feed myself, without lifting one of my fore-feet to my mouth: and therefore nature had placed those joints to answer that ne-cessity.
-- But, in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, whence, in re-320 Gulliver's Travelsturn, we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you haven't took your feed yet, have a glath of bitterth.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's the only way to feed all the mouths and clothe all the bodies.
-- I'll just feed the dog.'
-- 'Yes, he came later, when it had cleared up, to feed the pheasants with corn.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the jailer, putting his little daughter on the outer ledge of the grate, 'she shall feed the birds.
-- 'Not that at any time,' she proceeded, 'its worst enemy could have said it was a cheerful house for that it was never made to be but always highly impressive, fond memory recalls an occasion in youth ere yet the judgment was mature when Arthur confirmed habit Mr Clennam took me down into an unused kitchen eminent for mouldiness and proposed to secrete me there for life and feed me on what he could hide from his meals when he was not at home for the holidays and on dry bread in disgrace which at that halcyon period too frequently occurred, would it be inconvenient or asking too much to beg to be permitted to revive those scenes and walk through the house?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This year it was to be a plantation of sun flowers, the seeds of which cheerful land aspiring plant were to feed Aunt Cockle-top and her family of chicks.
-- Here's fruit to feed our busy bee, And flowers for her nose.
-- The view is so lovely, and I like to feed the peacocks.
-- Laurie did not read all this while he watched her feed the peacocks, but he saw enough to satisfy and interest him, and carried away a pretty little picture of a bright-faced girl standing in the sunshine, which brought out the soft hue of her dress, the fresh color of her cheeks, the golden gloss of her hair, and made her a prominent figure in the pleas-ant scene.
-- I can feed and nurse and pet and scold them, and Mother will be my stand-by.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp, and, like Stubb, eat him by his own light, as you may say; this seems so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and philosophy of it.
-- These fritters feed the flames.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope you say your prayers every night,' said another gentleman in a gruff voice; 'and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you--like a Christian.'
-- 'And this man that's to be his master--you, sir--you'll treat him well, and feed him, and do all that sort of thing, will you?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could have shot as many as I pleased, but was very spar-ing of my powder and shot, and therefore had more mind to kill a she-goat if I could, which I could better feed on; and though there were many goats here, more than on my side the island, yet it was with much more difficulty that I could come near them, the country being flat and even, and they saw me much sooner than when I was on the hills.
-- With these reflections I worked my mind up, not only to a resignation to the will of God in the present disposition of my circumstances, but even to a sincere thankfulness for my condition; and that I, who was yet a living man, ought not to complain, seeing I had not the due punishment of my sins; that I enjoyed so many mercies which I had no reason to have expected in that place; that I ought never more to re-pine at my condition, but to rejoice, and to give daily thanks for that daily bread, which nothing but a crowd of wonders could have brought; that I ought to consider I had been fed even by a miracle, even as great as that of feeding Elijah by ravens, nay, by a long series of miracles; and that I could hardly have named a place in the uninhabitable part of the world where I could have been cast more to my advantage; a place where, as I had no society, which was my affliction on one hand, so I found no ravenous beasts, no furious wolves or tigers, to threaten my life; no venomous creatures, or poisons, which I might feed on to my hurt; no savages to murder and devour me.
-- I was about three months hedging in the first piece; and, till I had done it, I tethered the three kids in the best part of it, and used them to feed as near me as pos-sible, to make them familiar; and very often I would go and carry them some ears of barley, or a handful of rice, and feed them out of my hand; so that after my enclosure was finished and I let them loose, they would follow me up and down, bleating after me for a handful of corn.
-- After that, I enclosed five several pieces of ground to feed them in, with little pens to drive them to take them as I wanted, and gates out of one piece of ground into another.
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