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：
-- Poor Mary Grant felt her heart sink within her, and John Mangles stood by ready to die in her behalf.
-- "You die to-morrow at sunrise."
-- cried Kai-Koumou; "you all die to-morrow at daybreak."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why didn't I die there on the spot?
-- 'The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, 'What should I do if I were not to die now?
-- The old woman was very ill at that time, and knew she was dying (she really did die a couple of months later), and though she felt the end ap-proaching she never thought of forgiving her daughter, to the very day of her death.
-- It really would be happier for him to die young.
-- Why did she take it into her head to die at that moment?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Help me, and since I may not return home to gladden the hearts of my wife and of my infant son, let me die within the walls of your city.'
-- Minerva answered, 'Would, indeed, this fellow might die in his own land, and fall by the hands of the Achaeans; but my father Jove is mad with spleen, ever foiling me, ever headstrong and unjust.
-- Let them live or die as luck will have it, and let Jove mete out his judgements upon the Trojans and Danaans according to his own plea-sure.'
-- This Euchenor had set sail for Troy well knowing that it would be the death of him, for his good old father Polyidus had often told him that he must either stay at home and die of a terrible disease, or go with the Achaeans and perish at the hands of the Trojans; he chose, therefore, to avoid incurring the heavy fine the Achaeans would have laid upon him, and at the same time to escape the pain and suffering of disease.
-- Who knows but Achilles, son of lovely Thetis, may be smitten by my spear and die before me?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lay across one of the thwarts for I know not how long, thinking that if I had the strength I would drink sea-water and madden myself to die quickly.
-- Then, stopping to look back once or twice, he slunk off among the bushes to the right of me, and I heard the swish of the fronds grow faint in the distance and die away.
-- But he was so irresponsible, so utterly careless!His curiosity, his mad, aimless investiga-tions, drove him on; and the Things were thrown out to live a year or so, to struggle and blunder and suffer, and at last to die painfully.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will die in the winter rains.
-- 'This thing will die if I do not give it things to eat"; and he dropped twigs and dried bark on the red stuff.
-- I will die without fighting.
-- We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go; we do not hunt where they hunt; we do not die where they die.
-- He had seen his fellow elephants die of cold and epilepsy and starvation and sunstroke up at a place called Ali Mus-jid, ten years later; and afterward he had been sent down thousands of miles south to haul and pile big balks of teak in the timberyards at Moulmein.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And I tell you that he who is born a Mingo will die a Mingo,' returned the other positively.
-- As for me, who am of the whole blood of the whites, it is befitting that I should die as becomes my color, with no words of scoffing in my mouth, and without bitterness at the heart!'
-- 'Why die at all!'
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