die是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 死， 死亡； (草木) 枯萎， 凋谢； 渴望，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope he didn't die of any thing catching.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It died out, as everything but his shoemaking did die out of him, and he refolded his little packet and tried to secure it in his breast; but he still looked at her, and gloomily shook his head.
-- Not 137only would the echoes die away, as though the steps had gone; but, echoes of other steps that never came would be heard in their stead, and would die away for good when they seemed close at hand.
-- 'Be a brave man, my Gaspard!It is better for the poor little plaything to die so, than to live.
-- 'It will die out,' said Monsieur the Mar-quis, glancing at his hands, 'directly.'
-- My husband died of want; so many die of want; so many more will die of want.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lieu-tenant, love, and lack of money that is a symbolic triangle, or much the same as the half of the shattered die of Fortune.
-- Can the heart's flame die in the flame of the funeral pile?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A maidservant opens the door, they hand her the letter, and assure the maid that they're both so in love that they'll die on the spot at the door.
-- He had planted a great many potatoes, and his potatoes, as Levin had seen driving past, were already past flowering and beginning to die down, while Levin's were only just coming into flower.
-- "Why, he's dying--yes, he'll die in the spring, and how help him?
-- When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!And I consider my idea very important, but it turns out really to be as unimportant too, even if it were carried out, as doing for that bear.
-- "Oh, so it's not time to die yet?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They would shave off her hair, feed her on a scanty allowance of rice, treat her with contempt; she would be looked upon as an unclean creature, and would die in some corner, like a scurvy dog.
-- The moon was entering her first quarter, and her insufficient light would soon die out in the mist on the horizon.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rough and amiable noises came from it at night, and a good deal of singing about When I Die Don't Bury Me at All; yet for three years Digams had won the valedictory and the Hugh Loizeau Medal in Experimental Surgery.
-- And if sometimes I feel an exile, cold--I had to get out of Germany one time for refusing to sing Die Wacht am Rhein and trying to kill a cavalry captain--he was a stout fellow--I had to choke him--you see I am boasting, but I was a lifely Kerl thirty years ago!Ah!So!
-- Clif was occasionally irritating; he hated open windows; he talked of dirty socks; he sang "Some die of Diabetes" when Martin was studying; and he was altogether unable to say anything directly.
-- When he was quite sure that Nature was persisting in doing something she ought not to, he went guiltily to Gottlieb, protesting, "The darn' bugs ought to die in this immune serum, but they don't.
-- They said, with reason, that he was so devoted to Pure Science, to art for art's sake, that he would rather have people die by the right therapy than be cured by the wrong.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I was joking of course, but look here; on one side we have a stupid, senseless, worthless, spiteful, ailing, hor-rid old woman, not simply useless but doing actual mischief, who has not an idea what she is living for herself, and who will die in a day or two in any case.
-- 'Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain stand-ing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once!Only to live, to live and live!Life, whatever it may be!芒聙娄 How true it is!Good God, how true!Man is a vile creature!芒聙娄 And vile is he who calls him vile for that,' he added a moment later.
-- But he'll die before you get him to the hospital.'
-- 'You might let him die in peace, at least,' she shouted at the crowd, 'is it a spectacle for you to gape at?
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