kill是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 杀死， 消灭； 破坏， 毁灭； 消磨(时间)，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a shame to take my horse, and give me only a dry cow!If I kill her, what will she be good for?
-- Poor Sultan, who was lying close by them, heard all that the shepherd and his wife said to one another, and was very much frightened to think tomorrow would be his last day; so in the evening he went to his good friend the wolf, who lived in the wood, and told him all his sorrows, and how his master meant to kill him in the morning.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, in my opinion, it was extremely prudent, as well as generous: for, supposing these people had endeavoured to kill me with 20 Gulliver's Travelstheir spears and arrows, while I was asleep, I should cer-tainly have awaked with the first sense of smart, which might so far have roused my rage and strength, as to have enabled me to break the strings wherewith I was tied; af-ter which, as they were not able to make resistance, so they could expect no mercy.
-- That the life I had since led was labori-ous enough to kill an animal of ten times my strength.
-- For if,' said he, 'you throw among five Yahoos as much food as would be sufficient for fifty, they will, instead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each single one impatient to have all to itself; and therefore a servant was usually employed to stand by while they were feeding abroad, and those kept at home were tied at a distance from each other: that if a cow died of age or accident, before a Houyhnhnm could secure it for his own Yahoos, those in the neighbourhood would come in herds to seize it, and then would ensue such a battle as I had de-scribed, with terrible wounds made by their claws on both sides, although they seldom were able to kill one another, for want of such convenient instruments of death as we had invented.
-- One of the members for the affirmative offered several arguments of great strength and weight, alleging, 'that as the Yahoos were the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced, so they were the most restive and in-docible, mischievous and malicious; they would privately suck the teats of the Houyhnhnms' cows, kill and devour their cats, trample down their oats and grass, if they were not continually watched, and commit a thousand other ex-travagancies.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within or sometimes only maim him and distort him!
-- But strolling on to the Bank to kill time, and having the good fortune to observe at the window,' towards which he languidly waved his hand, then slightly bowed, 'a lady of a very superior and agreeable appearance, I considered that I could not do better than take the liberty of asking that lady where Mr. Bounderby the Banker does live.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the war was ridiculous, though it did kill rather a lot of people.
-- And dimly she realized one of the great laws of the hu-man soul: that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, which does not kill the body, the soul seems to re-cover as the body recovers.
-- Come along and try a life!God's love!That place Wragby would kill anybody.
-- You feel the pit fair WANTED to kill him.
-- But the man, well!But even THAT they'd like to kill in you, the very thought of the touch of him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She cried, with her clasped hands lifted above her head, that it would kill their father if he ever knew it; and fell down at Tip's graceless feet.
-- 'Dear dear,' said Flora, 'only to think of the changes at home Arthur cannot overcome it, and seems so natural, Mr Clennam far more proper since you became familiar with the Chinese customs and language which I am persuaded you speak like a Native if not better for you were always quick and clever though immensely difficult no doubt, I am sure the tea chests alone would kill me if I tried, such changes Arthur I am doing it again, seems so natural, most improper as no one could have believed, who could have ever imagined Mrs Finching when I can't imagine it myself!'
-- 'Get out of his sight or I can't hold the wild beast!Get out of the room!By my soul, he'll kill you!'
-- I was immovable and silent before them; and would have suffered any one of them to kill me sooner than I would have laid myself out to bespeak their approval.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After pacing to and fro in much agitation, he struck his forehead, and burst out in a wild strain, singing of his hatred to Roderigo, his love for Zara, and his pleasing resolution to kill the one and win the other.
-- 'Now go, dear, but don't kill yourself driving at a desper-ate pace.
-- 'Not being a genius, like Keats, it won't kill me,' she said stoutly, 'and I've got the joke on my side, after all, for the parts that were taken straight out of real life are denounced as impossible and absurd, and the scenes that I made up out of my own silly head are pronounced 'charmingly natural, tender, and true'.
-- 'Oh, Teddy, I'm sorry, so desperately sorry, I could kill myself if it would do any good!I wish you wouldn't take it so hard, I can't help it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
-- But there was no help for it, so up stairs I went to my little room in the third floor, undressed myself as slowly as possible so as to kill time, and with a bitter sigh got between the sheets.
-- Where's that girl? there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with "no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;" might as well kill both birds at once.
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