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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing could excite him, nothing could disturb him, not even a cannon ball, and no doubt he will die without ever having known even a passing feeling of irritation.
-- He felt that his part was to be the strength and the example of his wife and companions; that he was the head and chief; ready to die for the rest if circumstances required it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the very place for a homeless boy, who must die in the streets unless some one helped him.
-- 'They are both in a very low state, and we find it would come two pound cheaper to move 'em than to bury 'em--that is, if we can throw 'em upon another parish, which I think we shall be able to do, if they don't die upon the road to spite us.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People do not die of little trifling colds.
-- I was ready to die of laughter.
-- Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart; and then he will be sorry for what he has done.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We came into this creek in the evening, resolv-ing to swim on shore as soon as it was dark, and discover the country; but as soon as it was quite dark, we heard such dreadful noises of the barking, roaring, and howling of wild creatures, of we knew not what kinds, that the poor boy was ready to die with fear, and begged of me not to go on shore till day.
-- It is impossible to express the astonishment of these poor creatures at the noise and fire of my gun: some of them were even ready to die for fear, and fell down as dead with the very terror; but when they saw the creature dead, and sunk in the water, and that I made signs to them to come to the shore, they took heart and came, and began to search for the creature.
-- In this distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard.
-- But it was rather exclamation, such as, 'Lord, what a miserable crea-ture am I!If I should be sick, I shall certainly die for want of help; and what will become of me!'
-- Before, as I walked about, either on my hunting or for viewing the country, the anguish of my soul at my condition would break out upon me on a sudden, and my very heart would die within me, to think of the woods, the mountains, the deserts I was in, and how I was a prisoner, locked up with the eternal bars and bolts of the ocean, in an unin-habited wilderness, without redemption.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh," she was about to exclaim, but checked herself and allowed her thoughts to die without expression.
-- Hurstwood went home feeling as if he should die if he did not find affectionate relief.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch.
-- There's a hand that was the hand of a hog; but it ain't so no more; it's the hand of a man that's started in on a new life, and'll die before he'll go back.
-- it went through me like a shot, and I thought if it WAS Cairo I reckoned I would die of mis-erableness.
-- Another one says, 'I wisht old Boggs 'd threaten me, 'cuz then I'd know I warn't gwyne to die for a thousan' year.'
-- 'Well, he don't miss any property by it, because he'll get that all right; but he's missed seeing his brother Peter die which he mayn't mind, nobody can tell as to that but his brother would a give anything in this world to see HIM before he died; never talked about nothing else all these three weeks; hadn't seen him since they was boys together and hadn't ever seen his brother William at all that's the deef and dumb one William ain't more than thir- ty or thirty-five.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, it is not fair for poor Harlequin, the best friend that I have in the world, to die in my place!"
-- I'd rather die than drink that awful medicine."
-- They are born Marionettes, they live Marionettes, and they die Marionettes."
-- "Neither do I," said the Tunny, "but I am wise enough to think that if one is born a fish, it is more dignified to die under the water than in the frying pan."
-- "Try it and see!And in any case, if it is written that we must die, we shall at least die together."
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