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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her dress was modest and simple to a degree, dark and elderly in style; but both her face and appearance gave evi-dence that she had seen better days.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat him-self down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them.
-- As he spoke the son of Saturn bowed his dark brows, and the ambrosial locks swayed on his immortal head, till vast Olympus reeled.
-- They that dwelt about Percote and Practius, with Ses-tos, Abydos, and Arisbe these were led by Asius, son of Hyrtacus, a brave commander Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, whom his powerful dark bay steeds, of the breed that comes from the river Selleis, had brought from Arisbe.
-- As when a goat-herd from some high post watches a storm drive over the deep before the west wind black as pitch is the offing and a mighty whirlwind draws towards him, so that he is afraid and drives his flock into a cave even thus did the ranks of stalwart youths move in a dark mass to battle under the Ajaxes, horrid with shield and spear.
-- As a dark cloud in the sky when it comes on to blow af-ter heat, even so did Diomed son of Tydeus see Mars ascend into the broad heavens.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER II MR. TEDDY HENFREY'S FIRST IMPRESSIONS At four o'clock, when it was fairly dark and Mrs. Hall was screwing up her courage to go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, Teddy Henfrey, the clock-jobber, came into the bar.
-- "Good afternoon," said the stranger, regarding him as Mr. Henfrey says, with a vivid sense of the dark spectacles "like a lobster."
-- My eyes are sometimes so weak and painful that I have to shut myself up in the dark for hours together.
-- There he stood on the dark little landing, wondering what it might be that he had seen.
-- As he opened the kitchen door he saw through the scullery that the back door was just opening, and the faint light of early dawn displayed the dark masses of the garden beyond.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I also had a disconnected impres-sion of a dark face, with extraordinary eyes, close to mine; but that I thought was a nightmare, until I met it again.
-- I turned, and stood facing the dark trees.
-- Every dark form in the dimness had its ominous quality, its peculiar suggestion of alert watchfulness.
-- Presently he returned with a small measure containing a dark liquid.
-- said he, and I stood in a floor of a chasm that was at first absolutely dark to me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He loved better than any-thing else to go with Bagheera into the dark warm heart of the forest, to sleep all through the drowsy day, and at night see how Bagheera did his killing.
-- Some of ye are eaters of cattle, and of others I have heard that, un-der Shere Khan's teaching, ye go by dark night and snatch children from the villager's doorstep.
-- I have told the bats to watch through the dark time.
-- They explored all the passages and dark tunnels in the palace and the hundreds of little dark rooms, but they never remembered what they had seen and what they had not; and so drifted about in ones and twos or crowds telling each other that they were doing as men did.
-- 'I saw no more than a big snake making foolish circles till the dark came.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The colors of the war-paint had blended in dark confusion about his fierce countenance, and rendered his swarthy lineaments still more savage and repulsive than if art had attempted an effect which had been thus produced by chance.
-- Though this sudden and startling movement of the Indian produced no sound from the other, in the surprise her veil also was allowed to open its folds, and betrayed an indescribable look of pity, admiration, and horror, as her dark eye followed the easy motions of the sav-age.
-- Alice hesitated no longer; but giving her Narrangan-sett* a smart cut of the whip, she was the first to dash aside the slight branches of the bushes, and to follow the runner along the dark and tangled pathway.
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