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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an historical subject, painted at my father's desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father.
-- She was warmly attached to the child who is now dead and acted towards him like a most affectionate mother.
-- 100 FrankensteinChapter 9 othing is more painful to the human mind than, after Nthe feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she had finished her prayers for those beneath the roof of Tara, her father, mother, sisters, three dead babiesand "all the poor souls in Purgatory," she clasped her white beads between long fingers and began the Rosary, like therushing of a soft wind, the responses from black throats and white throats rolled back: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death."
-- And should agentleman be so ill bred as to indicate an interest in her, she must freeze him with a dignified but well-chosenreference to her dead husband.
-- Oh, itwasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that waspleasant.
-- I'm not dead enough for you topull down the shades though I might as well be.
-- "Oh, we just couldn't with poor Charlie dead only a " "I know how you feel but there isn't any sacrifice too great for the Cause," broke in Mrs. Elsing in a soft voicethat settled matters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- "Say Lord strike you dead if you don't!"
-- As I saw him go, picking his way among the nettles, and among the brambles that bound the green mounds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in.
-- I should have been a dead man if you had not come up."
-- "And last of all, Pip,--and this I want to say very serious to you, old chap,--I see so much in my poor mother, of a woman drudging and slaving and breaking her honest hart and never getting no peace in her mortal days, that I'm dead afeerd of going wrong in the way of not doing what's right by a woman, and I'd fur rather of the two go wrong the t'other way, and be a little ill-conwenienced myself.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at the bot-tom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish, that had thrown itself out of the water, and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank.
-- Thus Chanticleer was left alone with his dead Partlet; and having dug a grave for her, he laid her in it, and made a little hillock over her.
-- When he drew it away and counted, there lay before him no fewer than seven, dead and with legs stretched out.
-- The other paid him back in the same coin, and they got into such a rage that they tore up trees and be-laboured each other so long, that at last they both fell down dead on the ground at the same time.
-- Then he aimed a great blow, and struck the wolf on the head, and killed him on the spot!and when he was dead they cut open his body, and set Tommy free.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food; the rest were in a very weak condition.
-- They bury their dead with their heads directly down-ward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.
-- I measured the tail of the dead rat, and found it to be two yards long, wanting an inch; but it went against my stomach to drag the carcass off the bed, where it lay still bleeding; I observed it had yet some life, but with a strong slash across the neck, I thoroughly despatched it.
-- I pointed to the dead rat, smiling, and making other signs to show I was not hurt; whereat she was extremely rejoiced, calling the maid to take up the dead rat with a pair of tongs, and throw it out of the window.
-- I was that day shown to twelve sets of company, and as often forced to act over again the same fopperies, till I was half dead with weariness and vexation; for those who had seen me made such wonderful reports, that the people were ready to break down the doors to come in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is lamentable to think of; but this restraint was the result of no arithmetical process, was self-imposed in defiance of all calculation, and went dead against any table of probabilities that any Actuary would have drawn up from the premises.
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