They're dying rats, dying of starvation, when they crawl along that rope. That's why they crawl. If they had a bit of bread and cheese in their tummies they'd jump and run to get away from the cats. They're dying, they're dying right there on the rope, trying to crawl as a dying man would try to crawl away from a tiger that was eating him. And my Gawd! The bonehead audience sits there and applauds the show as an educational act!"
But the audience! "Wonderful things kindness will do with animals," said a member of one, a banker and a deacon. "Even human love can be taught to them by kindness.英文原著 · 《Michael, Brother of Jerry》
The Marquise went up forthwith to the stranger's room, without thinking of the shock that the sight of her widow's weeds might give to a woman who was said to be dying. At the sight of that dying woman the Marquise turned pale. In spite of the changes wrought by fearful suffering in Helene's beautiful face, she recognized her eldest daughter.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"Son Gabriel, your grandfather is trembling all over," said Francois. "If he is dying at all, he is dying of cold; help me to lift him, bed and all, to the hearth."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
By the side of William Carlyle's dying bed knelt the Lady Isabel. The time was at hand, and the boy was quite reconciled to his fate. Merciful, indeed, is God to dying children! It is astonishing how very readily, when the right means are taken, they may be brought to look with pleasure, rather than fear, upon their unknown journey.英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
Restaud and the Alsatian, kill them both! They have murdered me between them! Death or my daughters! it is too late, I am dying, and they are not here! Dying without them! Nasie! Fifine! Why do you not come to me?英文原著 · 《Father Goriot》
In the distant thickets the nightingale raised her melancholy notes, for love's last greeting. Thus eternal Nature greets the dying sons of men. God was with His children. Their thoughts were prayers; their eyes, which at first were fixed upon each other, now turned pleadingly to heaven. "I shall soon be there!" said Prince Augustus--"soon! I shall live a true life, and this struggle with death will soon be over. For sixteen years I have been slowly dying, day by day, hour by hour. Laura, it has been sixteen years, has it not?"
She bowed silently.英文原著 · 《Frederick the Great and His Family》
Cam was off on an adventure while I sat there dying of boredom, surrounded by people dying of natural causes.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
And Then It's All,"Oh, I'm Dying. I'm Dying." Christina.美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》
It's exactly the kind of hip event you're dying to be a part of.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》