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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor could any such spectator fail to know in his own breast, that these men, through their very delusions, showed great qualities, susceptible of being turned to the happiest and best account; and that to pretend (on the strength of sweeping axioms, howsoever cut and dried) that they went astray wholly without cause, and of their own irrational wills, was to pretend that there could be smoke without fire, death without birth, harvest without seed, anything or everything produced from nothing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Hans appeared not to take the slightest interest in what was really a question of life and death for us all, but waited quite ready to obey the signal which should say go aloft, or to resume his desperate journey into the interior of the earth.
-- My soul seemed filled with anguish, and death appeared welcome, only let it come quickly.
-- These words fell on my soul like a kind of death knell.
-- As far as I was concerned, death had claimed me for his own.
-- Why should we trouble ourselves about the sufferings and tortures to be endured from hunger when death stared us in the face under so many other swifter and perhaps even more horrid forms?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Too much death and horror.
-- It's like death itself, a dead colliery.
-- She felt she was being crushed to death by weird lies, and by the amazing cruelty of idiocy.
-- Then the death of the colonel from pneumonia, and his own narrow escape from death: his damaged health: his deep restlessness: his leav-ing the army and coming back to England to be a working man again.
-- The utter ne-gation of natural beauty, the utter negation of the gladness of life, the utter absence of the instinct for shapely beauty which every bird and beast has, the utter death of the hu-man intuitive faculty was appalling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Death of my life!There are prisoners here sometimes, who are not in such a devil of a hurry to be tried.'
-- Death of my soul, I play it out wherever I go!'
-- At length, Madame Rigaud, in an access of fury that I must ever deplore, threw herself upon me with screams of passion (no doubt those that were overheard at some distance), tore my clothes, tore my hair, lacerated my hands, trampled and trod the dust, and finally leaped over, dashing herself to death upon the rocks below.
-- Trained by main force; broken, not bent; heavily ironed with an object on which I was never consulted and which was never mine; shipped away to the other end of the world before I was of age, and exiled there until my father's death there, a year ago; always grinding in a mill I always hated; what is to be expected from me in middle life?
-- Mr Arthur Clennam sat in the window of the coffee-house on Ludgate Hill, counting one of the neighbouring bells, making sentences and burdens of songs out of it in spite of himself, and wondering how many sick people it might be the death of in the course of the year.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The baby's death troubled her, but I dare say she has only got cold.
-- How dark the days seemed now, how sad and lonely the house, and how heavy were the hearts of the sisters as they worked and waited, while the shadow of death hovered over the once happy home.
-- You wouldn't have me let that fine fellow work himself to death just for want of a little help, when he is worth a dozen of us lazy chaps, would you?'
-- 'It's evident he doesn't look in his glass before coming down,' thought Jo, with a smile, as he said 'Goot efening,' and sat soberly down, quite unconscious of the ludicrous contrast between his subject and his headgear, for he was going to read her the Death of Wallenstein.
-- I told him to go to sleep alone, and here he is, downstairs, getting his death a-cold pattering over that canvas,' said Meg, answering the call.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," says an old writer of whose works I possess the only copy extant "it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier."
-- For though I tried to move his arm unlock his bridegroom clasp yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly, as though naught but death should part us twain.
-- Yes, there is death in this business of whaling a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
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