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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning.
-- 'My friends,' said he, 'I have had a dream from heaven in the dead of night, and its face and figure resembled none but Nestor's.
-- The Trojans were scared when they saw the two sons of Dares, one of them in fright and the other lying dead by his chariot.
-- The son of Phyleus got close up to him and drove a spear into the nape of his neck: it went under his tongue all among his teeth, so he bit the cold bronze, and fell dead in the dust.
-- It would be better for me, should I lose you, to lie dead and buried, for I shall have nothing left to comfort me when you are gone, save only sorrow.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He staggered into the "Coach and Horses" more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down.
-- For a space people stood amazed and gesticulating, and then came panic, and scattered them abroad through the village as a gust scatters dead leaves.
-- At last only the dead tips of the fingernails remained, pallid and white, and the brown stain of some acid upon my fingers.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She kept tacking to and fro in a widening compass, for she was sailing dead into the wind.
-- Made a dead set at the poor devil.
-- I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deli-quescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing, the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.
-- I could have imagined I was already dead and in another world.
-- The physiology, the chemical rhythm of the creature, may also be made to un-dergo an enduring modification, of which vaccination and other methods of inoculation with living or dead mat-ter are examples that will, no doubt, be familiar to you.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last they all went down the hill for the dead bull, and only Akela, Bagheera, Baloo, and Mowgli's own wolves were left.
-- He has kept our Law"; and at last the seniors of the Pack thundered: 'Let the Dead Wolf speak.'
-- When a leader of the Pack has missed his kill, he is called the Dead Wolf as long as he lives, which is not long.
-- Mowgli thrust his dead branch into the fire till the twigs lit and crackled, and whirled it above his head among the cowering wolves.
-- Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs, and invite the Jungle-People to climb up their trees and fight them, or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves, and leave the dead mon-keys where the Jungle-People could see them.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some tribes lay great stress on the honor of strik-ing a dead body.
-- So soon as Cora and Alice were seated, the scout, with-out regarding the element, directed Heyward to support one side of the frail vessel, and posting himself at the other, they bore it up against the stream, followed by the deject-ed owner of the dead foal.
-- 'You forget the buck at your feet!or, may we not owe their visit to the dead colt?
-- A fish-hawk, which, secure on the topmost branches of a dead pine, had been a distant spectator of the fray, now swooped from his high and ragged perch, and soared, in wide sweeps, above his prey; while a jay, whose noisy voice had been stilled by the hoarser cries of the savages, ventured again to open his discordant throat, as though once more in undisturbed possession of his wild domains.
-- 'Not yet, not yet,' returned the agitated but undaunted Heyward: 'the sound came from the center of the island, and it has been produced by the sight of their dead com-panions.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To look upon its grass-grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.
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