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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For half an hour, the girls would chatter and laugh, and then servants would pull theshutters and in the warm half-gloom the talk would die to whispers and finally expire in silence broken only by softregular breathing.
-- She'd never, never catch another beau andeverybody'd laugh fit to die at her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I half expected to see him drop down before my face and die of deadly cold.
-- "He's a liar born, and he'll die a liar.
-- A man would die to-night of lying out on the marshes, I thought.
-- So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy."
-- With some vague misgiving that she might get upon the table then and there and die at once, the complete realization of the ghastly waxwork at the Fair, I shrank under her touch.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No,' cried he, 'that is letting her off too easily: she shall die a much more cruel death; I will eat her.'
-- said she, 'then we must all four die of hunger, you may as well plane the planks for our coffins,' and she left him no peace until he consented.
-- They began to walk again, but they always came deeper into the forest, and if help did not come 113soon, they must die of hunger and weariness.
-- Here she was to stay for seven 185years without meat or drink, and die of hunger.
-- My stomach remains empty, and I must tie my-self up if I am not to die of hunger.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of your servants were to have private or-ders to strew a poisonous juice on your shirts and sheets, which would soon make you tear your own flesh, and die in 80 Gulliver's Travelsthe utmost torture.
-- The queen would have me sit upon one of these chairs, but I absolute-ly refused to obey her, protesting I would rather die than place a dishonourable part of my body on those precious hairs, that once adorned her majesty's head.
-- If they can avoid casualties, they die only of old age, and are buried in the obscurest places that can be found, their friends and relations expressing neither joy nor grief at their departure; nor does the dying person discover the least regret that he is leaving the world, any more than if he were upon returning home from a visit to one of his neighbours.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hope I shall die ere ever such a time cooms, and I shall work solitary among yo unless it cooms truly, I mun do 't, my friends; not to brave yo, but to live.
-- But I know he'd die a hundred deaths, ere ever he'd break his word.
-- He tightened his hold in time to prevent her sinking on the floor, but she cried out in a terrible voice, 'I shall die if you hold me!Let me fall upon the ground!'
-- 'But I have known you people before to-day, you'll observe, and I know you never die for want of talking.
-- See how we die an' no need, one way an' another in a muddle every day!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The very last tufts of grassy vegetation appeared to die at our feet.
-- I was literally buried alive; with no other expectation before me but to die in all the slow horrible torture of hunger and thirst.
-- To lie down and die the most cruel and horrible of deaths!
-- It was very doubtful, under the circumstances in which we were placed, if we should have time to die of inanition.
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