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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child had not only met his death on the mountain, but found a grave which some enormous rock had sealed forever.
-- A frightful death was in store for them, since they must either be devoured by the fire or by the caimans.
-- The whole human race is shut up in himself, and when death comes, which utter loneliness will make terrible, he will be like the last man on the last day of the world.
-- The boats had been all carried away by the tempest; death stared them in the face, when, on the night of the 22d of June, as Paganel had rightly supposed, they came in sight of the eastern coast of Australia.
-- The band of marsupia had disappeared after the death of their leader.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This family paper was committed to my care by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden and tragic death some three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire.
-- It is a short account of the facts elicited at the death of Sir Charles Baskerville which occurred a few days before that date.'
-- Our visitor readjusted his glasses and began: 'The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose name has been mentioned as the probable Liberal candi-date for Mid-Devon at the next election, has cast a gloom over the county.
-- 'The circumstances connected with the death of Sir Charles cannot be said to have been entirely cleared up by the inquest, but at least enough has been done to dispose of those rumours to which local superstition has given rise.
-- There is no reason whatever to suspect foul play, or to imag-ine that death could be from any but natural causes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This man had once been brought to the scaffold in company with several others, and had had the sentence of death by shooting passed upon him for some political crime.
-- 'There,' he said, 'there is the cause of the death of this venerable woman' (which was a lie, because she had been ill for at least two years) 'there she stands before you, and dares not lift her eyes from the ground, because she knows that the finger of God is upon her.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this, the idea of death passed, for the time being, out of his mind.
-- It was only when he could get nothing but insults that death seemed worth while.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I set down again, a-shaking all over, and got out my pipe for a smoke; for the house was all as still as death now, and so the widow wouldn't know.
-- Then they tucked the old man into a beauti- ful room, which was the spare room, and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stan-chion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time; and towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler, and rolled off the porch and broke his left arm in two places, and was most froze to death when somebody found him after sun-up.
-- This is the speech I learned it, easy enough, while he was learning it to the king: To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.
-- This was the most awful trouble and most dangersome I ever was in; and I was kinder stunned; everything was going so differ-ent from what I had allowed for; stead of being fixed so I could take my own time if I wanted to, and see all the fun, and have Mary Jane at my back to save me and set me free when the close-fit come, here was nothing in the world be-twixt me and sudden death but just them tattoo-marks.
-- The men was very huffy, and some of them wanted to hang Jim for an example to all the other niggers around there, so they wouldn't be trying to run away like Jim done, and making such a raft of trouble, and keeping a whole family scared most to death for days and nights.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the Cricket's death scared Pinocchio at all, it was only for a very few moments.
-- The Marionette, seeing death dancing before him, trembled so hard that the joints of his legs rattled and the coins tinkled under his tongue.
-- Death was creeping nearer and nearer, and the Marionette still hoped for some good soul to come to his rescue, but no one appeared.
-- Although scared to death by the horror of what had been done, he ran to the sea and soaked his handkerchief in the cool water and with it bathed the head of his poor little schoolmate.
-- Seeing himself so near to death (and such a horrible death!)
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