murder是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 谋杀， 凶杀，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Worth my while, too, to murder him, when I could do worse and drag him back!"
-- The other fugitive, who was evidently in extreme horror of his companion, repeated, "He tried to murder me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the huntsman spoke further and said: 'Father, will you see the maiden who brought me up so ten-derly and who was afterwards to murder me, but did not do it, though her own life depended on it?'
-- So he hired some villains to murder him; and having shown them where to lie in ambush, he went to his broth-er, and said, 'Dear brother, I have found a hidden treasure; let us go and dig it up, and share it between us.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For instance, a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder, they see a harmless people, are entertained with kindness; they give the country a new name; they take formal possession of it for their king; they set up a rotten plank, or a stone, for a memorial; they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more, by force, for a sample; return home, and get their pardon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ha' read on 't in the public petition, as onny one may read, fro' the men that works in pits, in which they ha' pray'n and pray'n the lawmakers for Christ's sake not to let their work be murder to 'em, but to spare 'em for th' wives and children that they loves as well as gentlefok loves theirs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Similarly, if the two clever ones had agreed to murder Little Dorrit by candlelight, Mrs Affery, being required to hold the candle, would no doubt have done it.
-- His eyes looked so very sinister, as he put his leg into the room and glanced round at Mistress Affery, that she thought with a sudden coldness, if he were to go straight up-stairs to murder the invalid, what could she do to prevent him?
-- 'I want to know,' returned Arthur, without disguising his abhorrence, 'how you dare direct a suspicion of murder against my mother's house?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How wildly it heightens the effect of that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their faction, the desperate White Hoods of Ghent murder their bailiff in the market-place!
-- Retreating not the thousandth part of an inch; stabbing him in the eye with the unflinching poniard of his glance, Steelkilt, clenching his right hand behind him and creepingly drawing it back, told his persecutor that if the hammer but grazed his cheek he (Steelkilt) would murder him.
-- "Thinking murder at hand, and smelling in the dark for the blood, he and all his armed mates and harpooneers rushed for the forecastle.
-- "For a moment the exhausted mutineer made a tremulous motion of his cramped jaws, and then painfully twisting round his head, said in a sort of hiss, 'What I say is this and mind it well if you flog me, I murder you!'
-- But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters; though but a moment's consideration will teach, that however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He'll murder me!'
-- 'He tried to murder me, sir; and then he tried to murder Charlotte; and then missis.
-- 'He has likewise attempted, sir, to murder the female servant,' said Mr. Bumble, with a face of ashy paleness.
-- 'I wonder they don't murder you!I would if I was them.
-- 'He has brought me to this lonely place to murder me!'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, after some thought upon this affair, I considered that if this land was the Spanish coast, I should certainly, one time or other, see some vessel pass or repass one way or other; but if not, then it was the savage coast between the Spanish country and Brazils, where are found the worst of savages; for they are cannibals or men-eaters, and fail not to murder and devour all the human bodies that fall into their hands.
-- With these reflections I worked my mind up, not only to a resignation to the will of God in the present disposition of my circumstances, but even to a sincere thankfulness for my condition; and that I, who was yet a living man, ought not to complain, seeing I had not the due punishment of my sins; that I enjoyed so many mercies which I had no reason to have expected in that place; that I ought never more to re-pine at my condition, but to rejoice, and to give daily thanks for that daily bread, which nothing but a crowd of wonders could have brought; that I ought to consider I had been fed even by a miracle, even as great as that of feeding Elijah by ravens, nay, by a long series of miracles; and that I could hardly have named a place in the uninhabitable part of the world where I could have been cast more to my advantage; a place where, as I had no society, which was my affliction on one hand, so I found no ravenous beasts, no furious wolves or tigers, to threaten my life; no venomous creatures, or poisons, which I might feed on to my hurt; no savages to murder and devour me.
-- They who know what it is to have a reprieve brought to them upon the ladder, or to be rescued from thieves just go-ing to murder them, or who have been in such extremities, may guess what my present surprise of joy was, and how gladly I put my boat into the stream of this eddy; and the wind also freshening, how gladly I spread my sail to it, run-ning cheerfully before the wind, and with a strong tide or eddy underfoot.
-- This appeared so clear to me now, that nothing was a greater satisfaction to me than that I had not been suffered to do a thing which I now saw so much rea-son to believe would have been no less a sin than that of wilful murder if I had committed it; and I gave most hum-ble thanks on my knees to God, that He had thus delivered me from blood-guiltiness; beseeching Him to grant me the protection of His providence, that I might not fall into the hands of the barbarians, or that I might not lay my hands upon them, unless I had a more clear call from Heaven to do it, in defence of my own life.
-- 'No no,' says I, 'Friday; I am afraid they will murder them, in-deed; but you may be sure they will not eat them.'
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