peck是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. &vi. 啄， 啄起，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or that the French plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly-decorated boxes, or that everything was good to eat and in its Christmas dress; but the customers were all so hurried and so eager in the hopeful promise of the day, that they tumbled up against each other at the door, crashing their wicker baskets wildly, and left their purchases upon the counter, and came running back to fetch them, and com-mitted hundreds of the like mistakes, in the best humour possible; while the Grocer and his people were so frank and fresh that the polished hearts with which they fastened their aprons behind might have been their own, worn out-side for general inspection, and for Christmas daws to peck at if they chose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What winds conveyed this hurry to the grizzled mender of roads, already at work on the hill-top beyond the vil-lage, with his day's dinner (not much to carry) lying in a bundle that it was worth no crow's while to peck at, on a heap of stones?
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah, she's a handsome craft, she is," the cook would say, and give her sugar from his pocket, and then the bird would peck at the bars and swear straight on, passing belief for wickedness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 20CHAPTER III ObserveTHE first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as Ilook far back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with herpretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty, with no shape at all,and eyes so dark that they seemed to darken their wholeneighbourhood in her face, and cheeks and arms so hard and redthat I wondered the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.
-- The cheeks and arms of Peggotty, so hard and red in my childishdays, when I wondered why the birds didn't peck her inpreference to apples, are shrivelled now; and her eyes, that used todarken their whole neighbourhood in her face, are fainter (thoughthey glitter still); but her rough fore-finger, which I once associ-ated with a pocket nutmeg-grater, is just the same, and when I seemy least child catching at it as it totters from my aunt to her, I thinkof our little parlour at home, when I could scarcely walk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah!How many sich birds are perpetually moulting, and putting their beaks through the wires to peck at all mankind!'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course, you've probably wondered why I never tried to follow up that chaste peck I gave you, the day Ibrought you that bonnet " "I have never " "Then you aren't a nice girl, Scarlett, and I'm sorry to hear it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why," said Joe, "yes, there certainly were a peck of orange-peel.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So on they went together into the town: and as they passed by a butcher's shop, the sparrow said to the dog, 'Stand there a little while till I peck you down a piece of meat.'
-- 'Well,' said the sparrow, 'you shall have some more if you will; so come with me to the next shop, and I will peck you down another steak.'
-- said the sparrow; and perching upon the third horse, she began to peck him too.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I attempted to catch any of these birds, they would boldly turn against me, endeavouring to peck my fingers, which I durst not venture within their reach; and then they would hop back unconcerned, to hunt for worms or snails, as they did before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had known, to use his words, a peck of trouble.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't peck at one another, children.
-- The old lady likes me, and I'll be as sweet as possible to her, so she won't peck at us, whatever we do.'
-- cried Pol-ly, tumbling off the chair with a bounce, and running to peck the 'rattlepated' boy, who was shaking with laughter at the last speech.
-- 'You ought to have sent word, or told me this morning, and you ought to have remembered how busy I was,' con-tinued Meg petulantly, for even turtledoves will peck when ruffled.
-- Laurie screwed up his face and obeyed with a gingerly peck at each little cheek that produced another laugh, and made the babies squeal.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding my first seed did not grow, which I easily imagined was by the drought, I sought for a moister piece of ground to make another trial in, and I dug up a piece of ground near my new bower, and sowed the rest of my seed in February, a little before the vernal equinox; and this having the rainy months of March and April to water it, sprung up very pleasantly, and yielded a very good crop; but having part of the seed left only, and not daring to sow all that I had, I had but a small quantity at last, my whole crop not amounting to above half a peck of each kind.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Says I ' I broke in and says: 'They're in an awful peck of trouble, and ' 'WHO is?'
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