eat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 吃， 喝vi. 吃饭， 吃东西，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the excitement of trying on dresses she had forgotten Mammy's ironclad rule that, before going to anyparty, the O'Hara girls must be crammed so full of food at home they would be unable to eat any refreshments at theparty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Darn me if I couldn't eat em," said the man, with a threatening shake of his head, "and if I han't half a mind to't!"
-- On the present occasion, though I was hungry, I dared not eat my slice.
-- His eyes looked so awfully hungry too, that when I handed him the file and he laid it down on the grass, it occurred to me he would have tried to eat it, if he had not seen my bundle.
-- "I'll eat my breakfast afore they're the death of me," said he.
-- Than I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as they came to the wood where the fox first met them, it was so cool and pleasant that the two brothers said, 'Let us sit down by the side of the river, and rest a while, to eat and drink.'
-- 'If I have only a piece of bread (and I certainly shall always be able to get that), I can, whenever I like, eat my butter and cheese with it; and when I am thirsty I can milk my cow and drink the milk: and what can I wish for more?'
-- The coast once clear, our travellers soon sat down and dispatched what the robbers had left, with as much eager-ness as if they had not expected to eat again for a month.
-- Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plen-ty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in every day: but though they had been married many years they had no children, and this grieved them very much indeed.
-- Now there were thirteen fairies in the kingdom; but as the king and queen had only twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, they 33were forced to leave one of the fairies without asking her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
-- I took them all in my right hand, put five of them into my coat-pocket; and as to the sixth, I made a countenance as if I would eat him alive.
-- It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs, before we eat them, was upon the larger end; but his present majesty's grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it ac-cording to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers.
-- My ser-vants were astonished to see me eat it, bones and all, as in our country we do the leg of a lark.
-- Her majesty used to put a bit of meat upon one of my dishes, out of which I carved for myself, and her diver-sion was to see me eat in miniature: for the queen (who had indeed but a weak stomach) took up, at one mouthful, as much as a dozen English farmers could eat at a meal, which to me was for some time a very nauseous sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an improving party assembled on the auspicious occasion, who knew what everything they had to eat and drink was made of, and how it was imported or exported, and in what quantities, and in what bottoms, whether native or foreign, and all about it.
-- 'You can take your own time for going, ma'am; but perhaps in the meanwhile, it will be more agreeable to a lady of your powers of mind, to eat her meals by herself, and not to be intruded upon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Until I discover the meaning of this sentence I will neither eat nor sleep."
-- He says he will eat no more, neither shall I.
-- After about two hours of hard work, I, one day, sat down by a stream to eat my humble but copious lunch.
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：
-- 'Even snails only eat them, and bees don't ravish.'
-- They would not eat it.
-- Tha'rt a female, tha art!Go an' eat thy supper.'
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