wither是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 使枯萎, 使凋谢; 使人感觉羞惭或迷惑，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly a deject-ed disposition to give up, and wither away.
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：
-- At the next moment, the breech of Hawkeye's rifle fell on the naked head of his adversary, whose muscles appeared to wither under the shock, as he sank from the arms of Dun-can, flexible and motionless.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shunning the tombs, it crept about the mounds, beneath which slept poor humble men: twining for them the first wreaths they had ever won, but wreaths less liable to wither and far more lasting in their kind, than some which were graven deep in stone and marble, and told in pompous terms of virtues meekly hidden for many a year, and only revealed at last to executors and mourning legatees.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the next day He prepared a worm to smite the gourd and wither it; and I feel it is better to die than to live!"
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When one speaks, they all begin together, and it's enough to make one wither to hear the way they go on!'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the end it will hurt too much, and they will wither because of it.
-- And this will wither the work as well.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, happy Sissy's happy children loving her; all children loving her; she, grown learned in childish lore; thinking no innocent and pretty fancy ever to be despised; trying hard to know her humbler fellow-creatures, and to beautify their lives of machinery and reality with those imaginative graces and delights, without which the heart of infancy will wither up, the sturdiest physical manhood will be morally stark death, and the plainest national prosperity figures can show, will be the Writing on the Wall, she holding this course as part of no fantastic vow, or bond, or brotherhood, or sisterhood, or pledge, or covenant, or fancy dress, or fancy fair; but simply as a duty to be done, did Louisa see these things of herself?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Smite Thou my debtors, Lord, wither them, crush them; do Thou as I would do, and Thou shalt have my worship: this was the impious tower of stone she built up to scale Heaven.
-- When he awoke, and sprang up causelessly frightened, the words were in his ears, as if her voice had slowly spoken them at his pillow, to break his rest: 'He withers away in his prison; I wither away in mine; inexorable justice is done; what do I owe on this score!'
-- To review his life was like descending a green tree in fruit and flower, and seeing all the branches wither and drop off, one by one, as he came down towards them.
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