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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll starve; you'll kill yourself, Queequeg."
-- Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this tremendous sight, Oliver began to cry very piteously: thinking, not unnaturally, that the board must have determined to kill him for some useful purpose, or they never would have begun to fatten him up in that way.
-- 'Cause the government, as cares for the lives of such men as you, as haven't half the pluck of curs, lets a man kill a dog how he likes,' replied Sikes, shutting up the knife with a very expressive look; 'that's why.'
-- Make him come home, there's good people, or he'll kill his dear mother and father, and break my heart!'
-- 'I don't care for that, Bill, I don't care for that,' screamed the girl, struggling violently with the man, 'the child shan't be torn down by the dog, unless you kill me first.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did every thing best in the world; and she was sure he would kill more birds on the first of Septem-ber, than any body else in the country.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be we may kill some alcamies (a fowl like our curlews) for ourselves, for I know he keeps the gunner's stores in the ship.'
-- 'Well, Xury,' said I, 'we will both go and if the wild mans come, we will kill them, they shall eat nei-ther of us.'
-- 'Xury,' says I, 'you shall on shore and kill him.'
-- I cast my eye to the stranded vessel, when, the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far of; and considered, Lord!how was it possible I could get on shore After I had solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my condition, I began to look round me, to see what kind of place I was in, and what was next to be done; and I soon found my comforts abate, and that, in a word, I had a dread-ful deliverance; for I was wet, had no clothes to shift me, nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me; neither did I see any prospect before me but that of perishing with hun-ger or being devoured by wild beasts; and that which was particularly afflicting to me was, that I had no weapon, -either to hunt and kill any creature for my sustenance, or to defend myself against any other creature that might desire to kill me for theirs.
-- In the interval of time while this was doing, I went out once at least every day with my gun, as well to divert myself as to see if I could kill anything fit for food; and, as near as I could, to acquaint myself with what the island produced.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Exert yourself, dear Marianne," she cried, "if you would not kill yourself and all who love you.
-- I did not know my danger till the danger was removed; but with such feelings as these reflections gave me, I wonder at my recovery, wonder that the very eagerness of my desire to live, to have time for atonement to my God, and to you all, did not kill me at once.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichev-er boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it, and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sign of the band.
-- Some thought it would be good to kill the FAMILIES of boys that told the secrets.
-- I was most ready to cry; but all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson they could kill her.
-- We stop stages and car-riages on the road, with masks on, and kill the people and take their watches and money.'
-- 'Must we always kill the people?'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was his own fault, for I didn't want to kill him.
-- "Why did you kill him?"
-- "And after having killed you, we will kill your father also."
-- If not, it will kill you in the end."
-- You bought me to do me harm--to kill me--to make a drumhead out of me!"
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