bread是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 面包,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They saw in the dim light the headless figure facing them, with a gnawed crust of bread in one gloved hand and a chunk of cheese in the other.
-- Abruptly he whipped down the bread and cheese, and Mr. Hall just grasped the knife on the table in time to save it.
-- "You 'aven't been eatin' bread and cheese?"
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 learned that for six months he had lived on a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk a day.
-- It was a dinner for a King when he brought in a huge dish of it, succulent with tomatoes, and we ate it together with the good household bread and a bottle of red wine.
-- "The woman where I get my bread recommended me.
-- The Cuillere de Soupe and the Asile de Nuit were both closed to them, and their only sustenance was the wedge of bread which the Bouchee de Pain provided.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no want of meat, nor of vegetable products; those ligneous roots which they had found, when subjected to fermentation, gave them an acid drink, which was preferable to cold water; they also made sugar, without canes or beet- roots, by collecting the liquor which distils from the "acer saceharinum," a son of maple-tree, which flourishes in all the temperate zones, and of which the island possessed a great number; they made a very agreeable tea by employing the herbs brought from the warren; lastly, they had an abundance of salt, the only mineral which is used in food,... but bread was wanting.
-- "We will make bread of it," replied Cyrus Harding.
-- "Come, the bread that this grain of corn will make won't choke us very soon!"
-- 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:
-- As for Kit himself (whose laugh had been all the time one of that sort which very little would change into a cry) he carried a large slice of bread and meat and a mug of beer into a corner, and applied himself to disposing of them with great voracity.
-- Kit, who in despatching his bread and meat had been swallowing two-thirds of his knife at every mouthful with the coolness of a juggler, stopped short in his operations on being thus appealed to, and bawled 'Nobody isn't such a fool as to say he doosn't,' after which he incapacitated himself for further conversation by taking a most prodigious sandwich at one bite.
-- said Kit, taking out his clasp-knife, and falling upon a great piece of bread and meat which she had had ready for him, hours before, 'what a one you are!There an't many such as you, I know.'
-- Not deriving from these means the relief which he sought, he bit off an immense mouthful from the bread and meat, and took a quick drink of the porter; by which artificial aids he choked himself and effected a diversion of the subject.
-- We shall scarcely have bread to eat.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nekhludoff did not know he was as hungry as he turned out to be, and when he tasted of some cheese and bread he could not stop eating, and ate ravenously.
-- When, during a recess, her guards had lunched on bread and hard-boiled eggs her mouth watered and she felt that she was hungry, but considered it humiliating to ask them for some food.
-- He approached Nekhludoff and asked him where and how he should deliver the loaves of bread he had brought for the prisoners.
-- The rats, of which there was a large number, crawled all over them, and were so bold that they devoured the prisoner's bread and often attacked the prisoners themselves when they remained motionless.
-- 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.
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:
-- Hatta looked round and nodded, and went on with his bread and butter.
-- 'Then I suppose they'll soon bring the white bread and the brown?'
-- 'None of your brown bread for me!'
扩展阅读: