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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All seemed dead in the interior of this boat.
-- These are my last souvenirs of that world which is dead to me.
-- "These musicians," replied Captain Nemo, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus; for in the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced; and I am dead, Professor; as much dead as those of your friends who are sleeping six feet under the earth!"
-- And, provided with a lentil, he lighted a fire of dead wood that crackled joyously.
-- He brought down a white pigeon and a wood-pigeon, which, cleverly plucked and suspended from a skewer, was roasted before a red fire of dead wood.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Are not the young people growing up today, really dead before they have a chance to live?"
-- Aren't we exchanging the substance for the shadow, aren't we forfeiting life for this dead quality of knowledge?
-- The old ideals are dead as nails nothing there.
-- Humanity is a dead letter.
-- And then, what a snare and a delusion, this beauty of static things what a horrible, dead prison Breadalby really was, what an intolerable confinement, the peace!Yet it was better than the sordid scrambling conflict of the present.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unluckily, it was a heap of dead rabbits.
-- Then, if you hear of me being discovered dead in a bog or a pit full of snow, your conscience won't whisper that it is partly your fault?
-- The master tried to explain the matter; but he was really half dead with fatigue, and all that I could make out, amongst her scolding, was a tale of his seeing it starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb, in the streets of Liverpool, where he picked it up and inquired for its owner.
-- I heard him tell Mr. Hindley: and now she has nothing to keep her, and she'll be dead before winter.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you know, I've had such a quantity of poetry repeated to me to-day,' Alice began, a little frightened at finding that, the moment she opened her lips, there was dead silence, and all eyes were fixed upon her; 'and it's a very curious thing, I think every poem was about fishes in some way.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
-- Suddenly he the captain, that is began to pipe up his eternal song:"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
-- At first I had supposed "the dead man's chest" to be that identical big box of his upstairs in the front room, and the thought had been mingled in my nightmares with that of the one-legged seafaring man.
-- As he was thus speaking, he had risen from bed with great difficulty, holding to my shoulder with a grip that almost made me cry out, and moving his legs like so much dead weight.
-- The captain had been struck dead by thundering apoplexy.
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