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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, indeed!It's past nine, and dark as Egypt.
-- 'It beckoned, gliding noiselessly before him down a corridor as dark and cold as any tomb.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless.
-- "Oh, no," said he, looking a sort of diabolically funny, "the harpooneer is a dark complexioned chap.
-- As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years' War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt.
-- Still more, his very legs were marked, as if a parcel of dark green frogs were running up the trunks of young palms.
-- However, my thoughts were at length carried in other directions, so that for the present dark Ahab slipped my mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER III RELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SINECURE For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room to which he h ad been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board.
-- Oliver fell on his knees, and clasping his hands together, prayed that they would order him back to the dark room--that they would starve him--beat him--kill him if they pleased--rather than send him away with that dreadful man.
-- There was neither knocker nor bell-handle at the open door where Oliver and his master stopped; so, groping his way cautiously through the dark passage, and bidding Oliver keep close to him and not be afraid the undertaker mounted to the top of the first flight of stairs.
-- It was a cold, dark night.
-- Oliver, groping his way with one hand, and having the other firmly grasped by his companion, ascended with much difficulty the dark and broken stairs: which his conductor mounted with an ease and expedition that showed he was well acquainted with them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time it happened, after I had laid my scheme for the setting up my tent, and making the cave, that a storm of rain falling from a thick, dark cloud, a sud-den flash of lightning happened, and after that a great clap of thunder, as is naturally the effect of it.
-- I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted; and this gave me sometimes such se-cret comforts, that I cannot express them; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that He has not given them.
-- I endeavoured to clear up this fraud to my man Friday; and told him that the pretence of their old men going up to the mountains to say O to their god Benamuckee was a cheat; and their bringing word from thence what he said was much more so; that if they met with any answer, or spake with any one there, it must be with an evil spirit; and then I entered into a long discourse with him about the devil, the origin of him, his rebellion against God, his enmity to man, the reason of it, his setting himself up in the dark parts of the world to be worshipped instead of God, and as God, and the many stratagems he made use of to delude mankind to their ruin; how he had a secret access to our passions and to our affections, and to adapt his snares to our inclinations, so as to cause us even to be our own tempters, and run upon our destruction by our own choice.
-- It now occurred to me that the time of our deliverance was come, and that it would be a most easy thing to bring these fellows in to be hearty in getting possession of the ship; so I retired in the dark from them, that they might not see what kind of a governor they had, and called the captain to me; when I called, at a good distance, one of the men was ordered to speak again, and say to the captain, 'Captain, the commander calls for you;' and presently the captain replied, 'Tell his excellency I am just coming.'
-- He did so, and had but just time to get away, when the wolves came up to it, and some got upon it, when I, snapping an unchanged pistol close to the powder, set it on fire; those that were upon the timber were scorched with it, and six or seven of them fell; or rather jumped in among us with the force and fright of the fire; we despatched these in an instant, and the rest were so frightened with the light, which the night - for it was now very near dark - made more terrible that they drew back a little; upon which I ordered our last pistols to be fired off in one volley, and after that we gave a shout; upon this the wolves turned tail, and we sallied immediately upon near twenty lame ones that we found struggling on the ground, and fell to cutting them with our swords, which answered our expectation, for the crying and howling they made was better understood by their fellows; so that they all fled and left us.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "With dark narrow stairs and a kitchen that smokes, I suppose," said Elinor.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I've got to get up early in the morning, so I'll go to bed," and off he went, disappearing into the dark little bedroom off the hall, for the night.
-- The thoroughfare, in this part, was like a walled canon of brown stone and dark red brick.
-- His dark eyes snapped, and he crunched his paper as he laid it down.
-- Everything outside was dark and dreary.
-- A dark blue one would look so nice on you."
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