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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The details given by the Sergeant, the nationality of the prisoner, the murder of his companions, his escape from the hands of the Indians, all evidenced the fact.
-- General Cameron had three thousand volunteers at his disposal, and they gave no quarter to the Maories after the barbarous murder of Captain Sprent.
-- Glenarvan cherished no illusive hopes as to his own fate; nothing but his death could atone for the murder of a chief, and among these people death was only the concluding act of a martyrdom of torture.
-- Of his adventures all that could be extracted from him at this time was as follows:After the murder of Kara-Tete, Paganel took advantage, like Robert, of the commotion among the natives, and got out of the inclosure.
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:
-- Montpensier from the charge of murder which hung over her in connec-tion with the death of her step-daughter, Mlle.
-- Even Stapleton's attempt upon Sir Henry that night which ended in the death of the un-fortunate convict did not help us much in proving murder against our man.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I believe that to execute a man for murder is to punish him immeasurably more dreadfully than is equiva-lent to his crime.
-- A murder by sentence is far more dreadful than a murder committed by a criminal.
-- He would marry her tomorrow! marry her tomorrow and murder her in a week!'
-- No, no!I believe now that a man like you would murder anyone for money sharpen a razor and come up behind his best friend and cut his throat like a sheep I've read of such people.
-- 'Excellency!Have you read that account of the murder of the Zemarin family, in the newspaper?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Invisible Man A Grotesque Romance By H. G. Wells CONTENTS I The strange Man's Arrival II Mr. Teddy Henfrey's first Impressions III The thousand and one Bottles IV Mr. Cuss interviews the Stranger V The Burglary at the Vicarage VI The Furniture that went mad VII The Unveiling of the Stranger VIII In Transit IX Mr. Thomas Marvel X Mr. Marvel's Visit to Iping XI In the "Coach and Horses" XII The invisible Man loses his Temper XIII Mr. Marvel discusses his Resignation XIV At Port Stowe XV The Man who was running XVI In the "Jolly Cricketers" XVII Dr. Kemp's Visitor XVIII The invisible Man sleeps XIX Certain first Principles XX At the House in Great Portland Street XXI In Oxford Street XXII In the Emporium XXIII In Drury Lane XXIV The Plan that failed XXV The Hunting of the invisible Man XXVI The Wicksteed Murder XXVII The Siege of Kemp's House XXVIII The Hunter hunted The Epilogue CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN'S ARRIVAL The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
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:
-- Diverted from his ob-ject by this interruption, and maddened by the murder he had just witnessed, Magua buried his weapon in the back of the prostrate Delaware, uttering an unearthly shout as he committed the dastardly deed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You interrupted us at a critical moment,' said he, pointing to the man whom I had found in company with him; 'this fellow will murder me one of these days.
-- With these exclamations, Mr Quilp caught up the poker, and hurrying to the door of the good lady's sleeping-closet, beat upon it therewith until she awoke in inexpressible terror, thinking that her amiable son-in-law surely intended to murder her in justification of the legs she had slandered.
-- I shall wear,' added Richard, taking off his hat again and looking hard at it, as if he were only deterred by pecuniary considerations from spurning it with his foot, 'I shall wear this emblem of woman's perfidy, in remembrance of her with whom I shall never again thread the windings of the mazy; whom I shall never more pledge in the rosy; who, during the short remainder of my existence, will murder the balmy.
-- The gentleman who was against him had to speak first, and being in dreadfully good spirits (for he had, in the last trial, very nearly procured the acquittal of a young gentleman who had had the misfortune to murder his father) he spoke up, you may be sure; telling the jury that if they acquitted this prisoner they must expect to suffer no less pangs and agonies than he had told the other jury they would certainly undergo if they convicted that prisoner.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By the aid of this power she gets control over this hero--a kind, trustful, rich guest, and uses his confidence first to rob him, and then to pitilessly murder him."
-- "They are innocent in the ordinary sense of the word, as that woman was innocent of poisoning; as that peasant is innocent of the murder which he has not committed; as that mother and son are innocent of the arson which was committed by the owner himself, and for which they came near being convicted."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Only my disinclination to leave Weena, and a persuasion that if I began to slake my thirst for murder my Time Machine might suffer, restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is one thing to be idle and skulk and quite another to take a ship and murder a number of innocent men.
-- Everything else was unchanged, the sun still shining mercilessly on the steaming marsh and the tall pinnacle of the mountain, and I could scarce persuade myself that murder had been actually done and a human life cruelly cut short a moment since before my eyes.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But she paced up and down all the while like a tiger outside, like a tiger, with very murder in her face.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well, next day they found out the nigger was gone; they found out he hadn't ben seen sence ten o'clock the night the murder was done.
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