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：
-- 'Why,' repeated the scout, looking about him proudly; 'because it is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!What answer could we give Munro, when he asked us where and how we left his children?'
-- 'There are evils worse than death,' said Duncan, speaking hoarsely, and as if fretful at her importunity, 'but which the presence of one who would die in your behalf may avert.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should like him to die miserable, poor, and starving, without a friend.
-- We can't let him die like a dog.
-- "Before I see anyone give me something to drink or I shall die of thirst," he cried out.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, as the grouse were cooked, Pencroft let the fire die away, and only preserved a few embers buried under the ashes.
-- Then these new continents will become, in their turn, uninhabitable; heat will die away, as does the heat from a body when the soul has left it; and life will disappear from the globe, if not for ever, at least for a period.
-- "No, don't be uneasy, Pencroft; we shall not be here then, as we have no wish to die here, and hope to get away some time."
-- "Whales have been kno wn to go thousands of miles with a harpoon in the side, and this one might even have been struck in the north of the Atlantic and come to die in the south of the Pacific, and it would be nothing astonishing."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's all very fine to talk,' said Mrs Quilp with much simplicity, 'but I know that if I was to die to-morrow, Quilp could marry anybody he pleased now that he could, I know!'
-- 'Do you wish you may die if you do know, hey?'
-- There's an aunt of mine down in Dorsetshire that was going to die when I was eight years old, and hasn't kept her word yet.
-- Quilp, consider, consider,' the old man cried, trembling so much the while, that the papers in his hand fluttered as if they were shaken by the wind, 'that orphan child!If I were alone, I could die with gladness perhaps even anticipate that doom which is dealt out so unequally: coming, as it does, on the proud and happy in their strength, and shunning the needy and afflicted, and all who court it in their despair but what I have done, has been for her.
-- Then growing garrulous upon a theme which was new to one listener though it were but a child, she told her how she had wept and moaned and prayed to die herself, when this happened; and how when she first came to that place, a young creature strong in love and grief, she had hoped that her heart was breaking as it seemed to be.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, why did I not die then!"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Even this artistic impetus would at last die away had almost died in the Time I saw.
-- If each generation die and leave ghosts, he argued, the world at last will get overcrowded with them.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's my own Invention'After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was dead silence, and Alice lifted up her head in some alarm.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We'll have that chest open, if we die for it.
-- If I die like a dog, I'll die in my dooty.
-- I always wanted you to jine and take your share, and die a gentleman, and now, my cock, you've got to.
-- I've seen too many die since I fell in with you.
-- But they continued to call us by name and appeal to us, for God's sake, to be merciful and not leave them to die in such a place.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But do you see, Professor," replied our irascible companion, "that we shall absolutely die of hunger in this iron cage?"
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