expire是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 满期, 到期; 逝世, 死，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be reasonably inferred thatour baby will first expire of inanition, as being the frailest memberof our circle; and that our twins will follow next in order.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For half an hour, the girls would chatter and laugh, and then servants would pull theshutters and in the warm half-gloom the talk would die to whispers and finally expire in silence broken only by softregular breathing.
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