poison是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 毒物， 毒药v. 放毒， 毒害， 污染，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They even go so far as to poison the fountains that the birds generally drink from.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you mean to say,' cried Gania, from the other corner, 'do you mean to say that railways are accursed inventions, that they are a source of ruin to humanity, a poison poured upon the earth to corrupt the springs of life?'
-- Do you know I have intended to poison myself at least thirty times ever since I was thirteen or so and to write to my parents before I did it?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If I could poison that dear old lady's rum and water,' murmured Quilp, 'I'd die happy.'
-- I'll look out for one like Christopher, and poison him ha, ha, ha!Business though business we must be mindful of business in the midst of pleasure, and the time has flown this morning, I declare.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The poison case, I think," the secretary answered, with feigned indifference.
-- "Very well; so let it be the poison case," said the justice, considering that that case could be disposed of by four o'clock and make it possible for him to keep the appointment.
-- "At the autopsy held on the body of Smelkoff, and after the removal of the intestines, the presence of poison was readily discovered, leaving no doubt that death was caused by poisoning.
-- The indictment wound up as follows: "In view of the aforesaid the defendants, Simon Kartinkin, peasant of the village of Borkoff, thirty- three years of age; burgess Euphemia Ivanova Bochkova, forty-two years of age, and burgess Katherine Maslova, twenty-seven years of age, conspired on the 17th day of January, 188-, to administer poison to merchant Smelkoff with intent to kill and rob him, and did on said day administer to said Smelkoff poison, from which poison the said Smelkoff died, and did thereafter rob him of a diamond ring and twenty-five hundred rubles, contrary to the laws in such cases made and provided.
-- "Euphemia Bochkova, you, with Kartinkin and Maslova, are charged with stealing, on the 17th day of January, 188-, at the Hotel Mauritania, from the trunk of the merchant Smelkoff, money and a ring, and dividing the same among yourselves, and with a view of hiding your crime, administered poison to him, from the effects of which he died.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kaa was not a poison snake in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.
-- And hide you, O Poison People.
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