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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The intense cold quickly kills travelers, and those who even manage to hold out against it fall victims to the violence of the TEMPORALES, a sort of hurricane peculiar to those regions, which yearly fills the abysses of the Cordilleras with dead bodies.
-- From time to time another shot had to be fired, notwithstanding the fire, to keep off the howling pack, and in the course of an hour fifteen dead animals lay stretched on the prairie.
-- The precincts were strewed with the dead wolves, and judging from their numbers, it was evident how violent the attack must have been, and how desperate the resistance.
-- The ground had once more become a dead level, the last mountains of the Pampas were passed, and a long carpet of verdure unrolled itself over the monotonous prairie beneath the horses' tread.
-- "With the dead wood we cut off the tree."
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：
-- The moon was shining bright upon the clearing, and there in the centre lay the unhappy maid where she had fallen, dead of fear and of fatigue.
-- 'He was running, Watson running desperately, run-ning for his life, running until he burst his heart and fell dead upon his face.'
-- And then suddenly, in the very dead of the night, there came a sound to my ears, clear, resonant, and unmistakable.
-- Once again I had reached that dead wall which seemed to be built across every path by which I tried to get at the object of my mission.
-- He hurried past me and stooped over the dead man.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pastor did not throw any more shameful words at the poor dead woman; but there were very few people at the funeral.
-- 'Her relations had all died off her husband was dead and buried forty years since; and a niece, who had lived with her and bullied her up to three years ago, was dead too; so that she was quite alone.
-- There were a few seconds of dead silence.
-- How often did I sing him to sleep when I was half dead with hunger!In short, I was more than a father to him, and now now he jeers at me!Even if I did cross myself, and pray for the repose of the soul of the Comtesse du Barry, what does it matter?
-- He was nearly dead with fatigue, and fell, rather than sat, into a chair.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They won't ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass.
-- Every- thing was dead quiet, and it looked late, and SMELT late.
-- I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
-- I alwuz liked dead people, en done all I could for 'em.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, toward evening, dead tired, they came to the Inn of the Red Lobster.
-- "Out with that money or you're a dead man," said the taller of the two Assassins.
-- When we return in the morning, we hope you'll be polite enough to let us find you dead and gone and with your mouth wide open."
-- CHAPTER 16 The Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair sends for the poor Marionette, puts him to bed, and calls three Doctors to tell her if Pinocchio is dead or alive.
-- "I should like to know, signori," said the Fairy, turning to the three doctors gathered about Pinocchio's bed, "I should like to know if this poor Marionette is dead or alive."
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