问答题
Boys have generally excellent appetites, He and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months:, at last they got so
voracious
and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn" t been used to
that sort of thing
(for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel
per diem
, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.
【正确答案】正确答案：Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens voracious; This is an ironic saying. It implies that the children are extremely hungry, almost driven into crazy. that sort of thing; This phrase refers to having little to eat and enduring hungry which is so common here. per diem: This phrase means the standard amount of gruel they have.