perish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 死亡, 使痛苦; (橡胶、 皮革等) 失去弹性, 老化，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for life they yielded nothing, and Levin felt suddenly like a man who has changed his warm fur cloak for a muslin garment, and going for the first time into the frost is immediately convinced, not by reason, but by his whole nature that he is as good as naked, and that he must infallibly perish miserably.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ieven walk, on two or three occasions, in a sickly, spoony manner,round and round the house after the family are gone to bed,wondering which is the eldest Miss Larkins's chamber (andpitching, I dare say now, on Mr. Larkins's instead); wishing that afire would burst out; that the assembled crowd would standappalled; that I, dashing through them with a ladder, might rear itagainst her win- dow, save her in my arms, go back for somethingshe had left behind, and perish in the flames.
-- Mr. Micawber told us,that when he heard her sing the first one, on the first occasion ofhis seeing her beneath the parental roof, she had attracted hisattention to an extraordinary degree; but that when it came to LittleTafflin, he had resolved to win that woman or perish in theattempt.
-- The ground now covering all that could perish ofmy departed wife, I waited only for what Mr. Micawber called the'final pulverisation of Heep,' and for the departure of theemigrants.
-- Ifound myself one of these, frantically imploring a knot of sailorswhom I knew, not to let those two lost creatures perish before oureyes.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a fiery energy in her movements; the Marquis de Ronquerolles had called her "a thoroughbred," "a pure pedigree," these figures of speech have replaced the "heavenly angel" and Ossianic nomenclature; the old mythology of love is extinct, doomed to perish by modern dandyism.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I appeared on deck the master said, 'Here is our captain, and he will not allow you to perish on the open sea.'
-- It may therefore be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion, but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.
-- You shall not die!You, my playfellow, my companion, my sister, perish on the scaffold!No!No!I nev-er could survive so horrible a misfortune.'
-- I only wonder that at that moment, instead of venting my sensations in exclamations and agony, I did not rush among mankind and perish in the attempt to destroy 171them.
-- I knelt on the grass and kissed the earth and with quivering lips exclaimed, 'By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, though it is said that fishes are dumb, he heard them lamenting that they must perish so miserably, and, as he had a kind heart, he got off his horse and put the three prisoners back into the water.
-- So he was led out to the sea, and a gold ring was thrown into it, before his eyes; then the king ordered him to fetch this ring up from the bottom of the sea, and added: 'If you come up again without it you will be thrown in again and again until you perish amid the waves.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perish the fearful secret-let the flames forever bury it in oblivion."
-- Others have done it and did not perish from that course.
-- Still we were determined not to perish without a struggle.
-- Are we not doomed to perish in the great hollows of the centre of the earth?"
-- I would reach the summit of that tower, or perish in the attempt.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All vulnerable things must perish under the rolling and running of iron.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let me never feel, while I am still alive, that I die before his face, and utterly perish away from him, like one consumed by lightning and swallowed by an earthquake.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!For worm-like, then, oh!who would craven crawl to land!Terrors of the terrible!is all this agony so vain?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My design in this was to make the river Gambia or Senegal, that is to say anywhere about the Cape de Verde, where I was in hopes to meet with some European ship; and if I did not, I knew not what course I had to take, but to seek for the islands, or perish there among the negroes.
-- I was ready to perish for thirst; but so weak, I had not strength to stand up, or to get myself any water to drink.
-- How mercifully can our Creator treat His creatures, even in those conditions in which they seemed to be overwhelmed in destruction!How can He sweeten the bitterest providences, and give us cause to praise Him for dungeons and prisons!What a table was here spread for me in the wilderness, where I saw nothing at first but to perish for hunger!
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