decay是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. /n. 腐烂; 衰微，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay and a heavy miasmatic vapour onto our faces, while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet.
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：
-- The expanded chest, full formed limbs, and grave countenance of this warrior, would denote that he had reached the vigor of his days, though no symptoms of decay appeared to have yet weakened his manhood.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rich merchants, sending their wares to the distant Indies, had lived in them calm and prosperous lives, and in their decent decay they kept still an aroma of their splendid past.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had ever before me the old dark murky rooms the gaunt suits of mail with their ghostly silent air the faces all awry, grinning from wood and stone the dust and rust and worm that lives in wood and alone in the midst of all this lumber and decay and ugly age, the beautiful child in her gentle slumber, smiling through her light and sunny dreams.
-- The glare of the sinking flame, reflected in the oaken panels whose carved tops were dimly seen in the dusky roof the aged walls, where strange shadows came and went with every flickering of the fire the solemn presence, within, of that decay which falls on senseless things the most enduring in their nature: and, without, and round about on every side, of Death filled her with deep and thoughtful feelings, but with none of terror or alarm.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.
-- Clearly, at some time in the Long-Ago of human decay the Morlocks' food had run short.
-- "Clearly we stood among the ruins of some latter-day South Kensington!Here, apparently, was the Pal脙娄ontological Section, and a very splendid array of fossils it must have been, though the inevitable process of decay that had been staved off for a time, and had, through the extinction of bacteria and fungi, lost ninety-nine hundredths of its force, was nevertheless, with extreme sureness if with extreme slowness at work again upon all its treasures.
-- In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I became acquainted with the science of anatomy, but this was not suf-ficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body.
-- Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses.
-- I saw, with surprise and grief, the leaves decay and fall, and nature again assume the barren and bleak appearance it had worn when I first beheld the woods and the lovely moon.
-- Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents; how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb!Of what materials was I made that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually re-newed the torture?
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：
-- A weakness ran over his body, a terrible relaxing, a thaw, a decay of strength.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Flintwinch has another DreamThe debilitated old house in the city, wrapped in its mantle of soot, and leaning heavily on the crutches that had partaken of its decay and worn out with it, never knew a healthy or a cheerful interval, let what would betide.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; "when shall I cease to regret you! when learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh!happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees! but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Frequently there is a period between the cessation of youthful accretion and the setting in, in the case of the middle-aged man, of the tendency toward decay when the two processes are almost perfectly balanced and there is little doing in either direction.
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