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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Before I'd let a man order me about as Quilp orders her,' said Mrs George, 'before I'd consent to stand in awe of a man as she does of him, I'd I'd kill myself, and write a letter first to say he did it!'
-- If he were to die if sudden illness had happened to him, and he were never to come home again, alive if, one night, he should come home, and kiss and bless her as usual, and after she had gone to bed and had fallen asleep and was perhaps dreaming pleasantly, and smiling in her sleep, he should kill himself and his blood come creeping, creeping, on the ground to her own bed-room door!These thoughts were too terrible to dwell upon, and again she would have recourse to the street, now trodden by fewer feet, and darker and more silent than before.
-- It would have been strange if the careless profligate, who was the butt of both, had been harassed by any such consideration; for his high opinion of his own merits and deserts rendered the project rather a laudable one than otherwise; and if he had been visited by so unwonted a guest as reflection, he would being a brute only in the gratification of his appetites have soothed his conscience with the plea that he did not mean to beat or kill his wife, and would therefore, after all said and done, be a very tolerable, average husband.
-- No strange robber, no treacherous host conniving at the plunder of his guests, or stealing to their beds to kill them in their sleep, no nightly prowler, however terrible and cruel, could have awakened in her bosom half the dread which the recognition of her silent visitor inspired.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The indictment wound up as follows: "In view of the aforesaid the defendants, Simon Kartinkin, peasant of the village of Borkoff, thirty- three years of age; burgess Euphemia Ivanova Bochkova, forty-two years of age, and burgess Katherine Maslova, twenty-seven years of age, conspired on the 17th day of January, 188-, to administer poison to merchant Smelkoff with intent to kill and rob him, and did on said day administer to said Smelkoff poison, from which poison the said Smelkoff died, and did thereafter rob him of a diamond ring and twenty-five hundred rubles, contrary to the laws in such cases made and provided.
-- He felt now as he did once when out game shooting, when he was obliged to kill a wounded bird--he was filled with disgust, pity and vexation.
-- The wounded bird is struggling in the game bag; he feels disgust and pity, and wishes to kill it quickly and forget it.
-- He remembered that he intended to explain to the jury that an answer of guilty without a denial of intent to kill involved an intent to kill, but, as he was hastening to terminate the proceedings, he failed to do so.
-- He would not kill a man.
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 longed very much to kill a Morlock or so.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's the name of a buccaneer of my acquaintance; and I call you by it for the sake of shortness, and what I have to say to you is this; one glass of rum won't kill you, but if you take one you'll take another and another, and I stake my wig if you don't break off short, you'll die do you understand that? die, and go to your own place, like the man in the Bible.
-- He was not only useless as an officer and a bad influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright, so nobody was much surprised, nor very sorry, when one dark night, with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more.
-- Kill me too, if you can.
-- But our best hope, it was decided, was to kill off the buccaneers until they either hauled down their flag or ran away with the Hispaniola.
-- "You can kill the body, Mr.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Either Captain Farragut would kill the narwhal, or the narwhal would kill the captain.
-- Then, as specimens of other kinds, some ovoides, resembling an egg of a dark brown colour, marked with white bands, and without tails; diodons, real sea-porcupines, furnished with spikes, and capable of swelling in such a way as to look like cushions bristling with darts; hippocampi, common to every ocean; some pegasi with lengthened snouts, which their pectoral fins, being much elongated and formed in the shape of wings, allow, if not to fly, at least to shoot into the air; pigeon spatulae, with tails covered with many rings of shell; macrognathi with long jaws, an excellent fish, nine inches long, and bright with most agreeable colours; pale-coloured calliomores, with rugged heads; and plenty of chaetpdons, with long and tubular muzzles, which kill insects by shooting them, as from an air-gun, with a single drop of water.
-- Conseil could not draw a word from him; and, fearing that, in a dreadful fit of madness, he might kill himself, watched him with constant devotion.
-- "But," continued the Canadian, "if I am surprised, I will defend myself; I will force them to kill me."
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：
-- "Probably I should kill him."
-- It was quite right of Hermione to want to kill him.
-- It was as if he would kill the other man.
-- It was not a question of taking one's life she would never kill herself, that was repulsive and violent.
-- She suddenly felt he might kill her, by making some dreadful accident with the motor-car.
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