slay是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 屠杀，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thrice did he spring forward with might and main to slay him, and thrice did Apollo beat back his gleaming shield.
-- He doubted whether to pursue the son of Jove, or to make slaughter of the Lycian rank and file; it was not decreed, however, that he should slay the son of Jove; Minerva, there-fore, turned him against the main body of the Lycians.
-- If your champion slay me, let him strip me of my armour and take it to your ships, but let him send my body home that the Trojans and their wives may give me my dues of fire when I am dead.
-- In like manner, if Apollo vouchsafe me glory and I slay your champion, I will strip him of his armour and take it to the city of Ilius, where I will hang it in the temple of Apollo, but I will give up his body, that the Achaeans may bury him at their ships, and the build him a mound by the wide waters of the Hellespont.
-- This night, therefore, let us keep watch, but with early morning let us put on our armour and rouse fierce war at the ships of the Achaeans; I shall then know whether brave Diomed the son of Tydeus will drive me back from the ships to the wall, or whether I shall myself slay him and carry off his blood-stained spoils.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Presently you will slay them all,' said the Dog-man.
-- 'Presently,' I answered, 'I will slay them all, after cer-tain days and certain things have come to pass.
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：
-- Can he slay a buck for their dinner; journey by the moss on the beeches, or cut the throat of a Huron?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was to placate voluble voters who came in to complain of everything from the smell of sewer- gas to the midnight beer parties of neighbors; he was to dictate office correspondence to the touchy stenographer, who was not a Working Girl but a Nice Girl Who Was Working; to give publicity to the newspapers; to buy paper-clips and floor-wax and report-blanks at the lowest prices; to assist, in need, the two part-time physicians in the city clinic; to direct the nurses and the two sanitary inspectors; to scold the Garbage Removal Company; to arrest--or at least to jaw at--all public spitters; to leap into a Ford and rush out to tack placards on houses in which were infectious diseases; to keep a learned implacable eye on epidemics from Vladivostok to Patagonia, and to prevent (by methods not very clearly outlined) their coming in to slay the yeomanry and even halt the business activities of Nautilus.
-- Wary of the hundreds of bacteriologists who would rise to slay him once his paper appeared, he sought to make sure that his results could be confirmed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He endured anguish at that moment, and if it had been possible to slay Raskolnikov instantly by wishing it, Pyotr Petrovitch would promptly have uttered the wish.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he found himself safe, he was overjoyed to think that he had got the Water of Life; and as he was going on his way homewards, he passed by the little dwarf, who, when he saw the sword and the loaf, said, 'You have made a noble prize; with the sword you can at a blow slay whole armies, and the bread will never fail you.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, then, did I believe all ye say, oh my pilot!I have here two pledges that I shall yet slay Moby Dick and survive it."
-- And now that at the proper time and place, after so long and wide a preliminary cruise, Ahab, all other whaling waters swept seemed to have chased his foe into an ocean-fold, to slay him the more securely there; now, that he found himself hard by the very latitude and longitude where his tormenting wound had been inflicted; now that a vessel had been spoken which on the very day preceding had actually encountered Moby Dick; and now that all his successive meetings with various ships contrastingly concurred to show the demoniac indifference with which the white whale tore his hunters, whether sinning or sinned against; now it was that there lurked a something in the old man's eyes, which it was hardly sufferable for feeble souls to see.
-- The harpoon, too! toss over the litter there, d'ye see it? the forged iron, men, the white whale's no, no, no, blistered fool!this hand did dart it! 'tis in the fish! Aloft there!Keep him nailed Quick! all hands to the rigging of the boats collect the oars harpooneers!the irons, the irons! hoist the royals higher a pull on all the sheets! helm there!steady, steady for your life!I'll ten times girdle the unmeasured globe; yea and dive straight through it, but I'll slay him yet!"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He walked away from the drummer and his prize at parting feeling as if he could slay him and not regret.
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