dead是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 死的； 无生命的； 死气沉沉的ad. 完全地，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
-- Mind!I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowl-edge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.
-- You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Mar-ley was as dead as a door-nail.
-- Merry Christmas!Out upon merry Christmas!What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?
-- Marley has been dead these seven years,' Scrooge re-plied.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- The likeness passed away, like a breath along the surface of the gaunt pier-glass behind her, on the frame of which, a hospital procession of negro cupids, several headless and all cripples, were offering black baskets of Dead Sea fruit to black divinities of the feminine gender-and he made his formal bow to Miss Manette.
-- That head Mr. Attorney-General concluded by demanding of them, in the name of everything he could think of with a round turn in it, and on the faith of his solemn assevera-tion that he already considered the prisoner as good as dead and gone.
-- 'In the dead of the night.
-- He was the only passenger who came on board in the dead of the night?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the patrol came up, all his comrades, who com-prehended nothing of the whole affair, were seized with a dreadful fright, for dead be was, and he remained so.
-- The seemingly dead body of the watchman wandered, as we have said, to the hospital, where it was brought into the general viewing-room: and the first thing that was done here was naturally to pull off the galoshes when the spirit, that was merely gone out on adventures, must have returned with the quickness of lightning to its earthly tenement.
-- 'Kay is dead and gone!'
-- 'Kay is dead and gone!'
-- 'Do you think he is dead and gone?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not at this date repent of the fact that he, a handsome, susceptible man of thirty-four, was not in love with his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself.
-- The memories of childhood and of Levin's friendship with her dead brother gave a special poetic charm to her relations with him.
-- One simply strokes the bristles of dead women.
-- He went back himself to a double birch tree on the other side, and leaning his gun on the fork of a dead lower branch, he took off his full overcoat, fastened his belt again, and worked his arms to see if they were free.
-- said Levin, pointing to Laska, who with one ear raised, wagging the end of her shaggy tail, came slowly back as though she would prolong the pleasure, and as it were smiling, brought the dead bird to her master.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout saw, too, begging friars, long-robed pilgrims, and simple civilians, with their warped and jet-black hair, big heads, long busts, slender legs, short stature, and complexions varying from copper-colour to a dead white, but never yellow, like the Chinese, from whom the Japanese widely differ.
-- Thence the passengers could observe the vast extent of this interior sea, which is also called the Dead Sea, and into which flows an American Jordan.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Doc Vickerson was dead and buried and forgotten; Martin's father and mother were dead, leaving him only enough money for his arts and medical courses.
-- He entered the shadow of the Anatomy Building, grim as a barracks, still as the dead men lying up there in the dissecting-room.
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