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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corrup-tion of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett, whose room lay across the hall from her mother's, knew from babyhood the soft sound of scurrying bareblack feet on the hardwood floor in the hours of dawn, the urgent tappings on her mother's door, and the muffled,frightened negro voices that whispered of sickness and birth and death in the long row of whitewashed cabins in thequarters.
-- With foreboding, Mammy had brought her young mistress a small package, addressed in a strange hand fromNew Orleans, a package containing a miniature of Ellen, which she flung to the floor with a cry, four letters in herown handwriting to Philippe Robillard, and a brief letter from a New Orleans priest, announcing the death of hercousin in a barroom brawl.
-- To her, it meant groans, delirium, death and smells.
-- So the women swished their silks and laughed and, looking on their men with hearts bursting with pride, theyknew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.
-- And oh, she was so tired of thehospital!Tired and bored and nauseated with the sickening gangrene smells and the endless moaning, frightened by thelook that coming death gave to sunken faces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'll eat my breakfast afore they're the death of me," said he.
-- You'd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!"
-- "We don't know what you have done, but we wouldn't have you starved to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creatur.--Would us, Pip?"
-- I laughed in spite of myself all the time, the whole thing was so droll; and yet I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution,--not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very uphill and downhill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.
-- In my rooms too, with which she had never been at all associated, there was at once the blankness of death and a perpetual suggestion of the sound of her voice or the turn of her face or figure, as if she were still alive and had been often there.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he went to the king, and told him all his brothers' roguery; and they were seized and punished, and he had the princess given to him again; and after the king's death he was heir to his kingdom.
-- The coal replied: 'I fortunate-ly sprang out of the fire, and if I had not escaped by sheer force, my death would have been certain, I should have been burnt to ashes.'
-- You think yourself a promised bride, and that your marriage will soon take place, but it is with death that you will keep your mar-riage feast.
-- They delivered him up to justice, and he and all his murderous band were condemned to death for their wicked deeds.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to enter-tain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- Scared and confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on with these reflections, when one of the reapers, 102 Gulliver's Travelsapproaching within ten yards of the ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next step I should be squashed to death under his foot, or cut in two with his reaping-hook.
-- I wanted to be among peo-ple, with whom I could converse upon even terms, and walk 175about the streets and fields without being afraid of being trod to death like a frog or a young puppy.
-- Or if I escaped these dangers for a day or two, what could I expect but a miserable death of cold and hunger?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he said, This schoolroom is an immense town, and in it there are a million of inhabitants, and only five-and-twenty are starved to death in the streets, in the course of a year.
-- For, say that the child of a King and the child of a Weaver were born to-night in the same moment, what was that disparity, to the death of any human creature who was serviceable to, or beloved by, another, while this abandoned woman lived on!
-- Finally, she laid her insensate grasp upon the bottle that had swift and certain death in it, and, before his eyes, pulled out the cork with her teeth.
-- But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life.
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