dark是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 黑暗的, 深(色) 的; 隐秘的n. 无光, 黑暗,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had heard older medics mutter of its horrors: of corpses hanging by hooks, like rows of ghastly fruit, in an abominable tank of brine in the dark basement; of Henry the janitor, who was said to haul the cadavers out of the brine, to inject red lead into their veins, and to scold them as he stuffed them on the dumb-waiter.
-- Her sketchy way of saying, "Why, of course everybody knows that Emerson was the greatest thinker" irritated him the more in contrast to Gottlieb's dark patience.
-- It had stood like a dark wall beside the platform, protecting them, but now the light from the snowfields glared in on them and left them exposed and self-conscious.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was, by the way, exceptionally handsome, above the average in height, slim, well-built, with beautiful dark eyes and dark brown hair.
-- It was a back staircase, dark and narrow, but he was familiar with it already, and knew his way, and he liked all these sur-roundings: in such darkness even the most inquisitive eyes were not to be dreaded.
-- The young man stepped into the dark entry, which was partitioned off from the tiny kitch-en.
-- He sat down at a sticky little table in a dark and dirty corner; or-dered some beer, and eagerly drank off the first glassful.
-- After dark maybe when no one can see.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in the dark and a strongdraught, until he was again sent for.
-- 20CHAPTER III ObserveTHE first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as Ilook far back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with herpretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty, with no shape at all,and eyes so dark that they seemed to darken their wholeneighbourhood in her face, and cheeks and arms so hard and redthat I wondered the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.
-- A dark store-room opens out of it, and that is a place to be run past at night; for Idon't know what may be among those tubs and jars and old tea-chests, when there is nobody in there with a dimly-burning light,letting a mouldy air come out at the door, in which there is thesmell of soap, pickles, pepper, candles, and coffee, all at one whiff.
-- Again, I seeher dark eyes roll round the church when she says 'miserablesinners,' as if she were, calling all the congregation names.
-- Long after it was dark I sat there, wondering whether anybody elsewould come.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her eyes, a deep grey, with dark eye-lashes and eyebrows, had never been denied their praise; but the skin, which she had been used to cavil at, as wanting colour, had a clearness and delicacy which really needed no fuller bloom.
-- Pray take care, Miss Woodhouse, ours is rather a dark staircase rather darker and narrower than one could wish.
-- It was a private resolution of hers, not communicated to him or at least not communicated in a way to carry conviction. Till yesterday, I know he said he was in the dark as to her plans.
-- It is a most uncommon complexion, with her dark eye-lashes and hair a most distinguishing com-plexion!So peculiarly the lady in it. Just colour enough for beauty.'
-- Will not it be beautiful in her dark hair?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a fine morning, and the sun lighted up to a scarlet glow the crimson jacket she wore, and painted a soft lustre upon her bright face and dark hair.
-- It came from the direction of a small dark object under the plantation hedge a shepherd's hut now presenting an outline to which an uninitiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use.
-- The vast arch of cloud above was strangely low, and formed as it were the roof of a large dark cavern, gradually sinking in upon its floor; for the instinctive thought was that the snow lining the heavens and that encrusting the earth would soon unite into one mass without any intervening stratum of air at all.
-- Bathsheba was far from dreaming that the dark and silent shape upon which she had so carelessly thrown a seed was a hotbed of tropic intensity.
-- As watching is best done invisibly, she usually carried a dark lantern in her hand, and every now and then turned on the light to examine nooks and corners with the coolness of a metropolitan policeman.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was the same kind of charm about her too slender form, her faintly colored face and light-brown hair, that modern poets find in mediaeval statuettes; and a sweet expression, a look of Christian resignation in the dark gray eyes.
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