extinction是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 绝灭， 熄灭，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The frantic gesticulations they surprised now and then, the headlong pace after nightfall that swept him upon them round quiet corners, the inhuman bludgeoning of all tentative advances of curiosity, the taste for twilight that led to the closing of doors, the pulling down of blinds, the extinction of candles and lamps who could agree with such goings on?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there was no doubt as to the complete extinction of the volcano.
-- Some think that it will arise from the falling of the temperature, which the sun will experience alter millions of years; others, from the gradual extinction of the fires in the interior of our globe, which have a greater influence on it than is generally supposed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time, she knew, must be allowed for this being thorough-ly done; and she could suppose herself but an indifferent judge of such matters in general, and very inadequate to sympathise in an attachment to Mr. Elton in particular; but it seemed to her reasonable that at Harriet's age, and with the entire extinction of all hope, such a progress might be made towards a state of composure by the time of Mr. Elton's return, as to allow them all to meet again in the common routine of acquaintance, without any danger of betraying sentiments or increasing them.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet even this scheme of extinction by death was but tamely copying her rival's method without the reasons which had glorified it in her rival's case.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Clearly we stood among the ruins of some latter-day South Kensington!Here, apparently, was the Pal脙娄ontological Section, and a very splendid array of fossils it must have been, though the inevitable process of decay that had been staved off for a time, and had, through the extinction of bacteria and fungi, lost ninety-nine hundredths of its force, was nevertheless, with extreme sureness if with extreme slowness at work again upon all its treasures.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Begone, vile insect!Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust!And, oh!That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!'
-- I did not pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opin-ions of the hero, whose extinction I wept, without precisely understanding it.
-- Margaret, what comment can I make on the untimely extinction of this glorious spirit?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On earth during the most profound and comparatively complete darkness, light never allows a complete destruction and extinction of its power.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor, considered aright, does it seem any argument in favour of the gradual extinction of the Sperm Whale, for example, that in former years (the latter part of the last century, say) these Leviathans, in small pods, were encountered much oftener than at present, and, in consequence, the voyages were not so prolonged, and were also much more remunerative.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so well was she able to answer her own expectations, that when she joined them at dinner only two hours after she had first suffered the extinction of all her dearest hopes, no one would have supposed from the appearance of the sisters, that Elinor was mourning in secret over obstacles which must divide her for ever from the object of her love, and that Marianne was internally dwelling on the perfections of a man, of whose whole heart she felt thoroughly possessed, and whom she expected to see in every carriage which drove near their house.
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