rot是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 腐烂，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We shall leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Helen, and the earth will rot your bones as you lie here at Troy with your purpose not fulfilled.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Rot the admiration of the whole Court!Who made the Old Bailey a judge of beauty?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She blandly agreed; and the next evening, when he sought to prove that surgery was all rot and most surgeons merely good carpenters, she agreed more amiably than ever.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Talk any rot you like to her, as long as you sit by her and talk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My works don't all moulder away, and rot in the earth.
-- Let him rot there.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus far my sense of sight; while dry rot and wet rot and all the silent rots that rot in neglected roof and cellar,--rot of rat and mouse and bug and coaching-stables near at hand besides--addressed themselves faintly to my sense of smell, and moaned, "Try Barnard's Mixture."
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：
-- All rot and funk, my boy.
-- Princess!Bloomin' rot about Princess!It's munney as matters, an' cos she's got lots, they give her more!Nobody's givin' me any, an' I've as much right as anybody else.
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 hope he'll rot with some loathsome disease.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Death plucked down some virtuous elder brother, on whose whistling daily toil solely hung the responsibilities of some other family, and left the worse than useless old man standing, till the hideous rot of life should make him easier to harvest.
-- Rains and spray had damped it; sun and wind had warped it; all the elements had combined to rot a thing that hung so idly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here, the clothesman, the shoe-vamper, and the rag-merchant, display their goods, as sign-boards to the petty thief; here, stores of old iron and bones, and heaps of mildewy fragments of woollen-stuff and linen, rust and rot in the grimy cellars.
-- 'The child,' said the girl, suddenly looking up, 'is better where he is, than among us; and if no harm comes to Bill from it, I hope he lies dead in the ditch and that his young bones may rot there.'
-- 'Rot you!'
-- 'And the place, the crazy hole, wherever it was, in which miserable drabs brought forth the life and health so often denied to themselves--gave birth to puling children for the parish to rear; and hid their shame, rot 'em in the grave!'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I killed more flesh than I could eat, the dog must eat it, or vermin; if I sowed more corn than I could eat, it must be spoiled; the trees that I cut down were lying to rot on the ground; I could make no more use of them but for fuel, and that I had no occasion for but to dress my food.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Them's the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me I'll never vote agin as long as I live.
-- Well, by and by the king he gets up and comes for- ward a little, and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle about its being a sore trial for him and his poor brother to lose the diseased, and to miss seeing diseased alive after the long journey of four thousand mile, but it's a trial that's sweetened and sanctified to us by this dear sym- pathy and these holy tears, and so he thanks them out of his heart and out of his brother's heart, because out of their mouths they can't, words being too weak and cold, and all that kind of rot and slush, till it was just sicken-ing; and then he blubbers out a pious goody- goody Amen, and turns himself loose and goes to cry- ing fit to bust.
-- Rot him, I forgot he was a preacher.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rot away.
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