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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If we are not drowned, or smashed into pancakes, and if we do not die of starvation, we have the satisfaction of knowing that we must be burned alive."
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：
-- Connie really sometimes felt she would die at this time.
-- She felt she would surely die if it lasted much longer.
-- 'I could die for the touch of a woman like thee,' he said in his throat.
-- I'd rather die than do any more cold-hearted fucking.'
-- Well, he told her he'd die rather than ever live with her again, so he took his things and went straight to his mother's on Tevershall hill.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I won't bear it; I can't bear it; I shall die if I try to bear it!'
-- Whether coffins were kept ready for people who might die there, where they were kept, how they were kept, where people who died in the prison were buried, how they were taken out, what forms were observed, whether an implacable creditor could arrest the dead?
-- The girl who, under the influence of these words, had gradually risen in anger and heightened in colour, answered, raising her lustrous black eyes for the moment, and clenching her hand upon the folds it had been puckering up, 'I'd die sooner!'
-- 'It may be a defect in my mental vision, Blandois,' said he, 'but may I die if I see what you have to do with this.'
-- I shall die of 'em, if Jeremiah don't strangle me first.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Die Engel-kinder!'
-- 'Well, I wish I may die if it ain't the queerest thing I ever see!The pianny has turned her head!She'd never have gone in her right mind,' cried Hannah, staring after her, while the girls were rendered quite speechless by the miracle.
-- 'Having taken the pirate captain prisoner, sailed slap over the schooner, whose decks were piled high with dead and whose lee scuppers ran blood, for the order had been 'Cutlasses, and die hard!'
-- I'm sick of the sight of this, and there's no reason you should all die of a surfeit because I've been a fool,' cried Amy, wiping her eyes.
-- While Amy dressed, she issued her orders, and Jo obeyed them, not without entering her protest, however, for she sighed as she rustled into her new organdie, frowned darkly at herself as she tied her bonnet strings in an irreproach-able bow, wrestled viciously with pins as she put on her collar, wrinkled up her features generally as she shook out the handkerchief, whose embroidery was as irritating to her nose as the present mission was to her feelings, and when she had squeezed her hands into tight gloves with three but-tons and a tassel, as the last touch of elegance, she turned to Amy with an imbecile expression of countenance, saying meekly... 'I'm perfectly miserable, but if you consider me present-able, I die happy.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married; meaning, in his country's phrase, that we were bosom friends; he would gladly die for me, if need should be.
-- Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.
-- For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.
-- In man, breathing is incessantly going on one breath only serving for two or three pulsations; so that whatever other business he has to attend to, waking or sleeping, breathe he must, or die he will.
-- In truth, it turned out to be one of those problematical whales that seem to dry up and die with a sort of prodigious dyspepsia, or indigestion; leaving their defunct bodies almost entirely bankrupt of anything like oil.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The die is the same as the porochial seal--the Good Samaritan healing the sick and bruised man.
-- 'What did she die of, Work'us?'
-- 'I think I know what it must be to die of that!'
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