extinguish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 熄灭, 扑灭; 根除, 消灭，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：
-- To extinguish it or check its progress was impossible; and they saw themselves irrevocably condemned to a torturing death, like the victims of Hindoo divinities.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said mentally, like a man who, after vainly attempting to extinguish a fire, should fly in a rage with his vain efforts and say, "Oh, very well then!you shall burn for this!"
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be well to extinguish the fire, and have a watch lis-ten!you hear the noise I mean!'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes be-came inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed.
-- Wretched devil!You reproach me with your creation, come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently be-stowed.'
-- Why, in that in-'Cstant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?
-- In that hour I should die 206 Frankensteinand at once satisfy and extinguish his malice.
-- Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I also hope that his powerful vessel has conquered the sea at its most terrible gulf, and that the Nautilus has survived where so many other vessels have been lost!If it be so if Captain Nemo still inhabits the ocean, his adopted country, may hatred be appeased in that savage heart!May the contemplation of so many wonders extinguish for ever the spirit of vengeance!May the judge disappear, and the philosopher continue the peaceful exploration of the sea!If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bolgolam, the admiral, could not preserve his temper, but, rising up in fury, said, he won-dered how the secretary durst presume to give his opinion for preserving the life of a traitor; that the services you had performed were, by all true reasons of state, the great aggra-vation of your crimes; that you, who were able to extinguish the fire by discharge of urine in her majesty's apartment (which he mentioned with horror), might, at another time, raise an inundation by the same means, to drown the whole palace; and the same strength which enabled you to bring over the enemy's fleet, might serve, upon the first discon-tent, to carry it back; that he had good reasons to think you were a Big-endian in your heart; and, as treason begins in the heart, before it appears in overt-acts, so he accused you as a traitor on that account, and therefore insisted you should be put to death.
-- It was strictly enjoined, that the project of starving you by degrees should be kept a secret; but the sentence of putting out your eyes was entered on the books; none dissenting, except Bolgolam the admiral, who, being a creature of the empress, was perpetually instigated by her majesty to insist upon your death, she having borne perpetual malice against you, on account of that infamous 83and illegal method you took to extinguish the fire in her apartment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes interpreters were called in; whom Mr Meagles addressed in such idiomatic terms of speech, as instantly to extinguish and shut up which made the matter worse.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Play fair, Teddy, or I'll never be-lieve you again,' she said, trying to extinguish the brilliant hopes that blazed up at a word of encouragement.
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