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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said quietly, "This poor animal will now soon be dead as Moses."
-- She's a dead shot.
-- "Well, except for the fact that every cherry blossom has been gone for weeks now, you're dead right."
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：
-- But the poor boy, beside himself, made his way, scream-ing, through the crowd to the sorrel nag, put his arms round her bleeding dead head and kissed it, kissed the eyes and kissed the lips芒聙娄.
-- But he made no answer and began listening at the old woman's door, a dead silence.
-- He laid the axe on the ground near the dead body and felt at once in her pocket (trying to avoid the streaming body) the same right-hand pocket from which she had taken the key on his last visit.
-- Then again dead silence for a minute or two.
-- He turned down it more dead than alive.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consequently theadvertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss- for as to sherry, mypoor dear mother's own sherry was in the market then- and tenyears afterwards the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part ofthe country, to fifty members at half a crown a head, the winner tospend five shillings.
-- And I amso frightened that they are afterwards obliged to take me out ofbed, and show me the quiet churchyard out of the bedroomwindow, with the dead all lying in their graves at rest, below thesolemn moon.
-- In time my eyesgradually shut up; and, from seeming to hear the clergymansinging a drowsy song in the heat, I hear nothing, until I fall off theseat with a crash, and am taken out, more dead than alive, byPeggotty.
-- But there havebeen times since, in my manhood, many times there have been,when I have thought, Is it possible, among the possibilities ofhidden things, that in the sudden rashness of the child and herwild look so far off, there was any merciful attraction of her intodanger, any tempting her towards him permitted on the part ofher dead father, that her life might have a chance of ending thatday.
-- We found the coach very near athand, and got upon the roof, but I was so dead sleepy, that whenwe stopped on the road to take up somebody else, they put meinside where there were no passengers, and where I slept until Ifound the coach going at a footpace up a steep hill among greenleaves.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Mr. Elton, 'what can be the mean-ing of this? Miss Smith! I never thought of Miss Smith in the whole course of my existence never paid her any attentions, but as your friend: never cared whether she were dead or alive, but as your friend.
-- In such a party, Harriet would be rather a dead weight than oth-erwise; but for the poor girl herself, it seemed a peculiarly cruel necessity that was to be placing her in such a state of unmerited punishment.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A group or two of the latest in date amongst the dead multitude had remained till this very mid-winter time on the twigs which bore them and in falling rattled against the trunks with smart taps.
-- He heard what seemed to be the flitting of a dead leaf upon the breeze, and looked.
-- Gabriel then remembered that he had left the two dogs on the hill eating a dead lamb (a kind of meat he usually kept from them, except when other food ran short), and concluding that the young one had not finished his meal, he went indoors to the luxury of a bed, which latterly he had only enjoyed on Sundays.
-- The ewes lay dead and dying at its foot a heap of two hundred mangled carcasses, representing in their condition just now at least two hundred more.
-- The pool glittered like a dead man's eye, and as the world awoke a breeze blew, shaking and elongating the reflection of the moon without breaking it, and turning the image of the star to a phosphoric streak upon the water.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little thing threw herself at her father's feet and spoke up bravely; she said that she only persevered in her visits for her mother's sake; that she would obey him without a murmur, but that she begged him to read her poor dead mother's farewell letter.
-- There are men who feel more at their ease when they stand up before another man who threatens their lives with sword or pistol than in the presence of a woman who, after two hours of lamentations and reproaches, falls into a dead swoon and requires salts.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light.
-- Delighted and surprised, I em-braced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
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