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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Don't kill it!'
-- I dropped the whip and snatched at the pistol in my pocket; for I meant to kill this brute, the most formidable of any left now upon the is-land, at the first excuse.
-- I felt sure that if I did not kill that brute, he would kill me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I I have to kill for two, these days.'
-- 'He is altogether without hair, and I could kill him with a touch of my foot.
-- The man's cub is ours to kill if we choose.'
-- 'To kill a naked cub is shame.
-- 'All the jungle is thine,' said Bagheera, 'and thou canst kill everything that thou art strong enough to kill; but for the sake of the bull that bought thee thou must never kill or eat any cattle young or old.
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:
-- Thus, it was deemed more important to obtain the scalp than to kill the man.
-- 'I must leave the buck to your arrow, Uncas, or we may kill a deer for them thieves, the Iroquois, to eat.'
-- 'Tis she!God has restored me to my children!Throw open the sally-port; to the field, Six-tieths, to the field; pull not a trigger, lest ye kill my lambs!
-- I hold it a sin to kill the second buck afore the first is eaten, unless a march in front, or an ambush-ment, be contemplated.
-- 'Kill me if thou wilt, detestable Huron; I will go no further.'
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:
-- I'd sooner kill myself.
-- "Let us go," said Stroeve to me, "or I shall kill this man."
-- I can't live without you; I shall kill myself.
-- "I wanted to kill him, and I only made a fool of myself."
-- He was in hospital still, but his wife, who had been to see him, said he was swearing hard to kill Strickland when they let him out.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pencroft did the same on his side, his hands in his pockets, yawning now and then like a man who did not know how to kill the time, but really dreading, like his friend, either the escape or destruction of the balloon.
-- It would be easy to kill a few of the pigeons which were flying by hundreds about the summit of the plateau, either with sticks or stones.
-- "Besides, if I do n't mistake, it is easy to approach and kill them with a stick."
-- After several fruitless attempts, which resulted in nothing but scaring the grouse, the sailor said to the lad, "Decidedly, since we can't kill them on the wing, we must try to take them with a line."
-- "Why, these apes are so cunning," returned Pencroft; "they won't show themselves again at the windows and so we can't kill them; and when I think of the mischief they may do in the rooms and storehouse " "Have patience," replied Harding; "these creatures cannot keep us long at bay."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But neither oaths, or prayers, nor words, will kill me, and therefore I live, and mean to live.'
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