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：
-- For many minutes the intricacy of the route admit-ted of no further dialogue; after which they emerged from the broad border of underbrush which grew along the line of the highway, and entered under the high but dark arches of the forest.
-- A gleam of exultation shot across the darkly-painted lineaments of the inhabitant of the forest, as he traced the route of his intended victims, who rode unconsciously onward, the light and graceful forms of the females waving among the trees, in the cur-vatures of their path, followed at each bend by the manly figure of Heyward, until, finally, the shapeless person of the singing master was concealed behind the numberless trunks of trees, that rose, in dark lines, in the intermedi-ate space.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one corner stood a huge bag of wool, ready to be spun; in another, a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom; ears of Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, where the claw-footed chairs and dark mahogany tables shone like mirrors; andirons, with their accompanying shovel and tongs, glistened from their covert of asparagus tops; mock- oranges and conch - shells decorated the mantelpiece; strings of various-colored birds eggs were suspended above it; a great ostrich egg was hung from the centre of the room, and a corner cupboard, know-ingly left open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and well-mended china.
-- A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the precipices that overhung some parts of the river, giv-ing greater depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides.
-- Some men-tion was made also of the woman in white, that haunted the dark glen at Raven Rock, and was often heard to shriek on winter nights before a storm, having perished there in the snow.
-- In the dark shadow of the grove, on the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen and towering.
-- Though the night was dark and dismal, yet the form of the unknown might now in some degree be ascertained.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her dark hair was elaborately dressed.
-- Her hair, thick and dark like her mother's, fell over her shoulders in fine profusion, and she had the same kindly expression and sedate, untroubled eyes.
-- But I was overwhelmed with embarrassment when I said to the maid the phrase I had prepared, and while I waited for the answer in a dark passage I had to call up all my strength of mind not to bolt.
-- They were dark and airless.
-- She was very pale now, and her fine brow was dark and lowering.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dark vapor was all around them.
-- The night was dark in the extreme.
-- But they could not in the dark determine whether it was a single island, or connected with others.
-- The cave was thus divided into three or four rooms, if such dark dens with which a donkey would scarcely have been contented deserved the name.
-- The reporter retired into a dark corner after having shortly noted down the occurrences of the day; the first appearance of this new land, the loss of their leader, the exploration of the coast, the incident of the matches, etc.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A part of this door was of glass unprotected by any shutter, which I did not observe at first, for all was very dark and silent within, and I was anxious (as indeed the child was also) for an answer to our summons.
-- What could take him from home by night, and every night!I called up all the strange tales I had ever heard of dark and secret deeds committed in great towns and escaping detection for a long series of years; wild as many of these stories were, I could not find one adapted to this mystery, which only became the more impenetrable, in proportion as I sought to solve it.
-- I had ever before me the old dark murky rooms the gaunt suits of mail with their ghostly silent air the faces all awry, grinning from wood and stone the dust and rust and worm that lives in wood and alone in the midst of all this lumber and decay and ugly age, the beautiful child in her gentle slumber, smiling through her light and sunny dreams.
-- His dress consisted of a large high-crowned hat, a worn dark suit, a pair of capacious shoes, and a dirty white neckerchief sufficiently limp and crumpled to disclose the greater portion of his wiry throat.
-- The sun went down and the stars peeped out, the Tower turned from its own proper colours to grey and from grey to black, the room became perfectly dark and the end of the cigar a deep fiery red, but still Mr Quilp went on smoking and drinking in the same position, and staring listlessly out of window with the doglike smile always on his face, save when Mrs Quilp made some involuntary movement of restlessness or fatigue; and then it expanded into a grin of delight.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mist began to settle, and from behind the wall of mist the waning moon appeared, gloomily, lighting up something dark and terrible.
-- He recalled that awful night with the breaking ice, the fog, and especially that waning, upturned moon which rose in the morning and lit up something dark and terrible.
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