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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They could not go on at all, and refused to eat the ALFAFARES, a poor, burnt-up sort of lucerne that grew there.
-- "To eat moderately," said Paganel, "would be positive ingratitude to Providence.
-- We must eat immoderately."
-- Only the Major seemed to eat with any relish.
-- He likes to eat an Indian best, and next to him a negro, then a mulatto, and last of all a white man."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there is nothing to eat unless he were to catch and slaughter one of the moor sheep.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, of course, mamma, if we needn't stand on ceremony with him, we must give the poor fellow something to eat af-ter his journey; especially as he has not the least idea where to go to,' said Alexandra, the eldest of the girls.
-- Eat away, prince, and tell me where you were born, and where you were brought up.
-- 'You know, father, you would have done much better not to come at all!She is ready to eat you up!You have not shown yourself since the day before yesterday and she is ex-pecting the money.
-- My word, what a dreadful thing that you should sit here and eat no food!How terribly frightened I am!'
-- 'Look at that, now,' thought the mother to herself, 'she does nothing but sleep and eat for a year at a time, and then suddenly flies out in the most incomprehensible way!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, pages filled the mixing-bowl with wine and water and hand-ed it round, after giving every man his drink-offering.
-- As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Nestor, knight of Gerene, began to speak.
-- Will nothing do for you but you must within their walls and eat Priam raw, with his sons and all the other Trojans to boot?
-- In my father's stables there are eleven excel-lent chariots, fresh from the builder, quite new, with cloths spread over them; and by each of them there stand a pair of horses, champing barley and rye; my old father Lycaon urged me again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting, to take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in battle, but I would not listen to him; it would have been much better if I had done so, but I was thinking about the horses, which had been used to eat their fill, and I was afraid that in such a great gathering of men they might be ill-fed, so I left them at home and came on foot to Ilius armed only with my bow and arrows.
-- The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces had woven for her, and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm of her hand, so that the immortal blood, or ichor, that flows in the veins of the blessed gods, came pouring from the wound; for the gods do not eat bread nor drink wine, hence they have no blood such as ours, and are immortal.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Can't I have some more to eat before I tell you all that?
-- Curse them! I say I want more to eat than this, Kemp."
-- "I'll see what there is to eat downstairs," said Kemp.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' I said with assurance; 'I could eat some mutton.'
-- 'Eat Man's food, now.'
-- 'Not to eat Fish or Flesh; that is the Law.
-- 'Eat roots and herbs; it is His will,' said the Ape-man.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very well, then," said Pinocchio, "if there is nothing else I'll eat them."
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