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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Shy. To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
-- But Cora, instead of obeying the impulse he had expected, rushed to the feet of the patriarch, and, rais-ing her voice, exclaimed aloud: 'Just and venerable Delaware, on thy wisdom and power we lean for mercy!Be deaf to yonder artful and remorse-less monster, who poisons thy ears with falsehoods to feed his thirst for blood.
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:
-- I told her that if she wanted writers she must feed them well."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was only a koala, better known under the name of the sloth, being about the size of a large dog, and having stiff hair of a dirty color, the paws armed with strong claws, which enabled it to climb trees and feed on the leaves.
-- The presence of this grain was explained by the fact that Herbert, when at Richmond, used to feed some pigeons, of which Pencroft had made him a present.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Kit scratched his head mournfully, in reluctant admission that it did not, and clambering up to the old nail took down the cage and set himself to clean it and to feed the bird.
-- thought Dick, 'she's going to feed the small servant.
-- With that, he led her to her rude couch, and covering her with the clothes with which she had found herself enveloped when she woke, returned to his seat, whence he moved no more unless to feed the furnace, but remained motionless as a statue.
-- This Kit is one of your honest people; one of your fair characters; a prowling prying hound; a hypocrite; a double-faced, white-livered, sneaking spy; a crouching cur to those that feed and coax him, and a barking yelping dog to all besides.'
-- It was greener, he said, than all the other gardens, and the birds loved it better because he had been used to feed them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I have to feed my children," she said, continuing her search.
-- "You ask, Who let the horse feed in the field?
-- "When I cut a joist last summer, intending to make a fence, you locked me up for three months in the castle to feed the insects.
-- It was perfectly clear that children and old people were dying for want of milk, and they had no milk because they had not land enough to feed the cattle and also raise bread and hay.
-- "And who would feed my child?"
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I was thinking of a wayTo feed oneself on batter,And so go on from day to dayGetting a little fatter.I shook him well from side to side,Until his face was blue:"Come, tell me how you live," I cried,"And what it is you do!"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By the powers, but I'll teach you better!Cross me, and you'll go where many a good man's gone before you, first and last, these thirty year back some to the yard-arm, shiver my timbers, and some by the board, and all to feed the fishes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What this fire might be, what could feed it, why and how it lit up the liquid mass, I could not say.
-- Flames require the oxygen of the air to feed upon and cannot be developed under water; but streams of lava, having in themselves the principles of their incandescence, can attain a white heat, fight vigorously against the liquid element, and turn it to vapour by contact.
-- "No, sir; but it wants electricity to make it move, and the wherewithal to make the electricity sodium to feed the elements, coal from which to get the sodium, and a coal-mine to supply the coal.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It stinks of the offal you feed on, you scavenger dog, you eater of corpses.
-- There were all the after days when her hands, like birds, could feed upon the fields of him mystical plastic form till then enough.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was frightened, and Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors: she did fly up, asking how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house, when they had their own bairns to feed and fend for?
-- You're to nurse it, Nelly: to feed it with sugar and milk, and take care of it day and night.
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