dismal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 阴郁的， 沉闷的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.
-- It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
-- At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon.
-- Built upon a dismal reef of sunken rocks, some league or so from shore, on which the waters chafed and dashed, the wild year through, there stood a solitary lighthouse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If your business necessitated your seeing 'the House,' you were put into a species of Condemned Hold at the back, where you meditated on a misspent life, until the House came with its hands in its pockets, and you could hardly blink at it in the dismal twilight.
-- The lights were nearly all extinguished in the passages, the iron gates were be-ing closed with a jar and a rattle, and the dismal place was deserted until to-morrow morning's interest of gallows, pil-lory, whipping-post, and branding-iron, should repeople it.
-- The first was the best room, and in it were Lucie's birds, and flowers, and books, and desk, and work-table, and box of water-colours; the second was the Doctor's consulting-room, used also as the dining-room; the third, changingly speckled by the rus-tle of the plane-tree in the yard, was the Doctor's bedroom, and there, in a corner, stood the disused shoemaker's bench and tray of tools, much as it had stood on the fifth floor of the dismal house by the wine-shop, in the suburb of Saint Antoine in Paris.
-- Through the dismal prison twilight, his new charge ac-companied him by corridor and staircase, many doors clanging and locking behind them, until they came into a large, low, vaulted chamber, crowded with prisoners of both sexes.
-- 'Forbid it,' proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with additional so-lemnity, additional slowness, and additional tendency to hold forth and hold out, 'as anything wot I have ever said or done should be wisited on my earnest wishes for them poor creeturs now!Forbid it as we shouldn't all flop (if it was anyways conwenient) to get 'em out o' this here dismal risk!Forbid it, miss!Wot I say, for-BID it!'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!those were very long and dismal win-ter evenings!
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat in the Sims House office--singularly dismal it was, after midnight, and singularly smelly.
-- The most dismal of the staff-members was Dr. Nicholas Yeo, the Yankee sandy-mustached head of the Department of Biology.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again, I wonder whether any of the neighbours callto mind, as I do, how we used to walk home together, she and I;and I wonder stupidly about that, all the dreary, dismal day.
-- I never shall forget the waking next morning; the being cheerfuland fresh for the first moment, and then the being weighed downby the stale and dismal oppression of remembrance.
-- The way inwhich I listened to all the incidents of the house that madethemselves audible to me; the ringing of bells, the opening and 62shutting of doors, the murmuring of voices, the footsteps on thestairs; to any laughing, whistling, or singing, outside, whichseemed more dismal than anything else to me in my solitude anddisgrace- the uncertain pace of the hours, especially at night, whenI would wake thinking it was morning, and find that the familywere not yet gone to bed, and that all the length of night had yet tocome- the depressed dreams and nightmares I had- the return ofday, noon, afternoon, evening, when the boys played in thechurchyard, and I watched them from a distance within the room,being ashamed to show myself at the window lest they shouldknow I was a prisoner- the strange sensation of never hearingmyself speak- the fleeting intervals of something like cheerfulness,which came with eating and drinking, and went away with it- thesetting in of rain one evening, with a fresh smell, and its comingdown faster and faster between me and the church, until it andgathering night seemed to quench me in gloom, and fear, andremorseall this appears to have gone round and round for yearsinstead of days, it is so vividly and strongly stamped on myremembrance.
-- His answer was notcheering to my spirits, for it consisted of two dismal words 'Withwhopping.'
-- I was chieflyedified, I am afraid, by the pictures, which were numerous, andrepresented all kinds of dismal horrors; but the Martyrs andPeggotty's house have been inseparable in my mind ever since, andare now.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a sort of attenuated variety of Ixion's punishment, and contributes a dismal chapter to the history of gaols.
-- There was not a sound of life save that acme and sublimation of all dismal sounds, the bark of a fox, its three hollow notes being rendered at intervals of a minute with the precision of a funeral bell.
-- The hollow seemed a nursery of pestilences small and great, in the immediate neighbourhood of comfort and health, and Bathsheba arose with a tremor at the thought of having passed the night on the brink of so dismal a place.
-- It is a nice dismal one that would suit you excellent just now."
-- "But if the others do ""No, they don't; and I won't read dismal books.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discov-ered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Throughout the dismal meal, Gerald's booming voice battered against her ears until she thought she could endureit no longer.
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