death是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 死， 死亡； 灭亡， 毁灭， 死因，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It means that I'm sick to death of you all and I want to be alone,' Raskolnikov answered calmly.
-- Timidly and noiselessly a young girl made her way through the crowd, and strange was her appearance in that room, in the midst of want, rags, death and despair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 11Anyhow, from India tidings of his death reached home, within tenyears.
-- A profound impression wasmade upon me, I remember, by the roar of voices in theschoolroom suddenly becoming hushed as death when Mr. Creakleentered after breakfast, and stood in the doorway looking roundupon us like a giant in a story-book surveying his captives.
-- From the moment of my knowing of the death of my mother, theidea of her as she had been of late had vanished from me.
-- In her death shewinged her way back to her calm untroubled youth, and cancelledall the rest.
-- Sometimes in his ragehe would take me for one of them, and come at me, mouthing as ifhe were going to tear me in pieces; then, remembering me, just intime, would dive into the shop, and lie upon his bed, as I thoughtfrom the sound of his voice, yelling in a frantic way, to his ownwindy tune, the Death of Nelson; with an Oh!before every line,and innumerable Goroos interspersed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were claims which he did not learn to overlook, though some years passed away from the death of poor Fairfax, before his own return to England put any thing in his power.
-- Oh!dear, I thought it would have been the death of me!So I said, I was very much obliged to him: you know I could not do less; and then he went back to Elizabeth, and I came round by the stables I believe I did but I hardly knew where I was, or any thing about it.
-- If the talking aunt had taken me quite by surprize, it must have been the death of me.
-- An express ar-rived at Randalls to announce the death of Mrs. Churchill!
-- They spoke, therefore, of Mrs. Churchill's death with mu-tual forbearance.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She seemed to prefer a less tragic probability; to have saved a man from death involved talk that should harmonise with the dignity of such a deed and she shunned it.
-- He found his opportunity in the death of a ewe, mother of a living lamb.
-- Boldwood's deep attachment was a matter of great interest among all around him; but, after having been pointed out for so many years as the perfect exemplar of thriving bachelorship, his lapse was an anticlimax somewhat resembling that of St. John Long's death by consumption in the midst of his proofs that it was not a fatal disease.
-- "Yes; and I would have said it, had death and salvation overtook me for it.
-- Gabriel at this time of his life had out-grown the instinctive dislike which every Christian boy has for reading the Bible, perusing it now quite frequently, and he inwardly said, "'I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets!'"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer, or to the boarders; but, somehow, those whom he obliged felt that they would sooner face death than fail to repay him; a certain resolute look, sometimes seen on his face, inspired fear of him, for all his appearance of easy good-nature.
-- There was not one of them but would have passed a blind man begging in the street, not one that felt moved to pity by a tale of misfortune, not one who did not see in death the solution of the all-absorbing problem of misery which left them cold to the most terrible anguish in others.
-- It vibrated through the student, who took the sound for a death groan.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to -induce me to commence this labourious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holi-day mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.
-- One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquire- 19ment of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.
-- No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.
-- But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death and will in-dulge a hope of meeting you in another world.'
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