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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The day before her death I went to see her for the last time, just before sunset.
-- He was a widower, and had no relations left, excepting the prince's aunt, a poor woman living on charity, who was herself at the point of death from dropsy; but who had time, before she died, to set Salaskin to work to find her nephew, and to make her will bequeathing her newly-acquired fortune to him.
-- Why, if she did, she would simply be walking to death by drowning or by the knife, with her eyes wide open, when she married you.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat him-self down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them.
-- You shun this as you do death itself.
-- For the mighty son of Saturn surely promised that we should succeed, when we Argives set sail to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans.
-- BOOK III hen the companies were thus arrayed, each under its Wown captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and win-ter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and they wrangle in the air as they fly; but the Achaeans marched silently, in high heart, and minded to stand by one another.
-- 'Sir,' answered Helen, 'father of my husband, dear and reverend in my eyes, would that I had chosen death rather than to have come here with your son, far from my bridal chamber, my friends, my darling daughter, and all the com-panions of my girlhood.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw my death before me; but I was hot and panting, with the warm blood oozing out on my face and running pleasantly through my veins.
-- So in solitude I came round by the ravine of the Beast People, and hiding among the weeds and reeds that sepa-rated this crevice from the sea I watched such of them as appeared, trying to judge from their gestures and appear-ance how the death of Moreau and Montgomery and the destruction of the House of Pain had affected them.
-- I burnt both of the bodies on a pyre of brushwood; but af-ter that I saw that unless I left the island my death was only a question of time.
-- After the death of this poor dog of mine, my last friend, I too adopted to some ex-tent the practice of slumbering in the daytime in order to be on my guard at night.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The punishment is death where the murderer can be found; and if you think for a minute you will see that this must be so.
-- The very cattle that would trample a white man to death allow themselves to be banged and bullied and shouted at by children that hardly come up to their noses.
-- said Mow-gli, for the answer meant life and death to him.
-- Hah!The hooded Death has missed!
-- He knew that mongooses in the garden meant death sooner or later for him and his family, but he wanted to get Rikki-tikki off his guard.
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：
-- 'The death of the colt sits heavy on the heart of its owner,' said the scout; 'but it's a good sign to see a man account upon his dumb friends.
-- Its death will save the creature many a sore back and weary foot!'
-- 'Lady,' returned the scout, solemnly, 'I have listened to all the sounds of the woods for thirty years, as a man will listen whose life and death depend on the quickness of his ears.
-- He had just fan-cied they were cruelly deserted by their scout, as a stream of flame issued from the rock beneath them, and a fierce yell, blended with a shriek of agony, announced that the mes-senger of death sent from the fatal weapon of Hawkeye, had found a victim.
-- 'I tell you, Uncas,' said the former, as Heyward joined them, 'you are wasteful of your powder, and the kick of the rifle disconcerts your aim!Little powder, light lead, and a long arm, seldom fail of bringing the death screech from a Mingo!At least, such has been my experience with the crea-tur's.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not till four years after Strickland's death that Maurice Huret wrote that article in the Mercure de France which rescued the unknown painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less docility, have followed.
-- It is due to no accident that when one of his most important works, The Woman of Samaria,芒聭路 was sold at Christie's shortly after the discussion which followed the publication of Mr. Strickland's biography, it fetched POUNDS 235 less than it had done nine months before when it was bought by the distinguished collector whose sudden death had brought it once more under the hammer.
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