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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair.
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- It had been almost dark before, but now it seemed quite dark, and soon afterwards very dark.
-- Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me.
-- To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This time the sea looked a dark grey colour, and was overspread with curling waves and the ridges of foam as he cried out: 'O man of the sea!
-- She carried her point, and the faithful Falada was killed; but when the true princess heard of it, she wept, and begged the man to nail up Falada's head against a large dark gate of the city, through which she had to pass every morning and evening, that there she might still see him sometimes.
-- Then the slaughterer said he would do as she wished; and cut off the head, and nailed it up under the dark gate.
-- Then he was very angry and sulky, and would not speak to her at all; but they watched the geese until it grew dark in the evening, and then drove them homewards.
-- The next morning, as they were going through the dark gate, the poor girl looked up at Falada's head, and cried:74 Grimms' Fairy Tales 'Falada, Falada, there thou hangest!'
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few days later, and another young lady--a tall, well-moulded brunette, with dark hair and bright eyes--came to ask for M. Goriot.
-- Imagine a pair of great dark eyes, a magnificently moulded hand, a shapely foot.
-- said the artist, "in the little dark corner where they put naughty boys."
-- Rastignac was impressed with a sense of the formidable power of the lackey who can accuse or condemn his masters by a word; he coolly opened the door by which the man had just entered the ante-chamber, meaning, no doubt, to show these insolent flunkeys that he was familiar with the house; but he found that he had thoughtlessly precipitated himself into a small room full of dressers, where lamps were standing, and hot-water pipes, on which towels were being dried; a dark passage and a back staircase lay beyond it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to en-counter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.
-- As I spoke, a dark gloom spread over my listener's countenance.
-- Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he ap-peared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
-- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
-- I wish you could see him; he is very 70 Frankensteintall of his age, with sweet laughing blue eyes, dark eyelashes, and curling hair.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwooddappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills.
-- At their edges rose the virgin forests, dark and cool even in the hottest noons, mysterious, a littlesinister, the soughing pines seeming to wait with an age-old patience, to threaten with soft sighs: "Be careful!Becareful!We had you once.
-- The dark cedars on either side of the graveled drive met in an arch overhead, turning the long avenue into a dimtunnel.
-- They did not like the dark shade of the thickets hedging the pasture creek, and they twitched theirears at Scarlett as if appreciative of human companionship.
-- Scarlett blew her nose on her torn handkerchief, and they started up the dark drive arm in arm, the horse followingslowly.
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