slaughter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 屠宰, 屠杀，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there is nothing to eat unless he were to catch and slaughter one of the moor sheep.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He doubted whether to pursue the son of Jove, or to make slaughter of the Lycian rank and file; it was not decreed, however, that he should slay the son of Jove; Minerva, there-fore, turned him against the main body of the Lycians.
-- It shall not stay my fury; my horses will spring lightly over their trench, and when I am at their ships forget not to bring me fire that I may burn them, while I slaughter the Argives who will be all dazed and bewildered by the smoke.'
-- Among these Hector was making great slaughter with his spear and furious driving, and was destroying the ranks that were opposed to him; still the Achaeans would have given no ground, had not Alexandrus husband of love-ly Helen stayed the prowess of Machaon, shepherd of his people, by wounding him in the right shoulder with a triple-barbed arrow.
-- Therefore I can take thought of nothing save only slaughter and blood and the rattle in the throat of the dying.'
-- They say that in wealth and plenitude of offspring you surpassed all that is in Lesbos, the realm of Makar to the northward, Phrygia that is more inland, and those that dwell upon the great Hellespont; but from the day when the dwellers in heaven sent this evil upon you, war and slaughter have been about your city con-tinually.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his second year of internship, when the thrills of fires and floods and murder became as obvious a routine as bookkeeping, when he had seen the strangely few ways in which mankind can contrive to injure themselves and slaughter one another, when it was merely wearing to have to live up to the pretentiousness of being The Doctor, Martin tried to satisfy and perhaps kill his guilty scientific lust by voluntary scrabbling about the hospital laboratory, correlating the blood counts in pernicious anemia.
-- It was Sondelius who spoke of a non-existent cousin who was a Harley Street specialist, and who explained that all they wanted was a laboratory for Martin and, for himself, a chance to slaughter rats.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A charge of small shot would have made great slaughter among these birds, but the hunters were still limited to sticks and stones, and these primitive weapons proved very insufficient.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But not this!Never this!That thiscould happen to us all, this wrecking of old ways, this bloody slaughter and hate!Melanie, nothing is worth it States'Rights, nor slaves, nor cotton.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Rise to the surface, and slaughter this vermin."
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, gentlemen, the fool had been branded for the slaughter by the gods.
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