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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Glenarvan in a low voice to the captain, "I will try to save my wife or perish with her.
-- Rather than abandon our search I will resume it alone!I will either find Captain Grant or perish in the attempt!"
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：
-- We can-not let him perish at our very gates.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let the Achaeans be hemmed in at the sterns of their ships, and perish on the sea-shore, that they may reap what joy they may of their king, and that Agamemnon may rue his blind-ness in offering insult to the foremost of the Achaeans.'
-- 'Sir,' said he, 'you do ill to nurse this rancour; the people perish fighting round this our town; you would yourself chide one whom you saw shirking his part in the combat.
-- We will, however, since you so bid us, refrain from ac-tual fighting, but we will make serviceable suggestions to the Argives that they may not all of them perish in your displeasure.'
-- See how they perish and come to a bad end before the onset of but a single man.
-- We will, however, since you so bid us, refrain from actual fighting, but we will make serviceable suggestions to the Argives, that they may not all of them perish in your displeasure.'
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：
-- Winters and summer, nights and days, have we roved the wilderness in company, eating of the same dish, one sleeping while the other watched; and afore it shall be said that Uncas was taken to the torment, and I at hand There is but a single Ruler of us all, whatever may the color of the skin; and Him I call to witness, that before the Mo-hican boy shall perish for the want of a friend, good faith shall depart the 'arth, and 'killdeer' become as harmless as the tooting we'pon of the singer!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could only judge that all had perished, and my heart smote me sorely that I had not been there to perish with them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunate man of science, after having braved the icebergs of the South Pole, the coral reefs of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, to perish miserably in a railway train!If this energetic man could have reflected during the last moments of his life, what must have been uppermost in his last thoughts, do you suppose?"
-- Was it destined to perish in this ice-tomb, with all those it enclosed?
-- It contains the sum of my studies of the sea; and, if it please God, it shall not perish with me.
-- There also are heaped up those erratic blocks which are carried along by the broken ice; and close by, a vast charnel-house of molluscs, which perish here by millions.
-- In any case, it is better to perish with it, than be made accomplices in a retaliation the justice of which we cannot judge."
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：
-- It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.
-- The joy went out of their lives, the hope seemed to perish as they became more and more mechanised.
-- He felt his heart was seared, it would perish if this went on much longer.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then terrible thoughts racked my imagination about their having found out my boat, and that there were peo-ple here; and that, if so, I should certainly have them come again in greater numbers and devour me; that if it should happen that they should not find me, yet they would find my enclosure, destroy all my corn, and carry away all my flock of tame goats, and I should perish at last for mere want.
-- I reproached myself with my laziness, that would not sow any more corn one year than would just serve me till the next season, as if no accident could intervene to pre-vent my enjoying the crop that was upon the ground; and this I thought so just a reproof, that I resolved for the future to have two or three years' corn beforehand; so that, what-ever might come, I might not perish for want of bread.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XXII THE BLAZE OF THE TINDER--FLESH WARS WITH THE FLESH The misfortune of the Hurstwood household was due to the fact that jealousy, having been born of love, did not perish with it.
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