sunset是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 日落， 傍晚； 晚霞，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sunset struck so brilliantly into the travelling car-riage when it gained the hill-top, that its occupant was steeped in crimson.
-- I left at sunset (as I had been warned to do), and I walked on, that night and half next day, until I met (as I was warned I should) this comrade.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun was setting behind a thick forest, and in the glow of sunset the birch trees, dotted about in the aspen copse, stood out clearly with their hanging twigs, and their buds swollen almost to bursting.
-- It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind; when the green oats, with tufts of yellow grass scattered here and there among it, droop irregularly over the late-sown fields; when the early buckwheat is already out and hiding the ground; when the fallow lands, trodden hard as stone by the cattle, are half ploughed over, with paths left untouched by the plough; when from the dry dung-heaps carted onto the fields there comes at sunset a smell of manure mixed with meadow-sweet, and on the low-lying lands the riverside meadows are a thick sea of grass waiting for the mowing, with blackened heaps of the stalks of sorrel among it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He summoned forth London laboratories, dinners on frosty evenings in Stockholm, walks on the Pincio with sunset behind the dome of San Pietro, extreme danger and overpowering disgust from excreta-smeared garments in an epidemic at Marseilles.
-- Sunset was a surf of crimson, and by night, when he stepped from the choking railroad coach and tramped the platform at Sauk Centre, he drank the icy air and looked up to the vast and solitary winter stars.
-- At sunset he sat on the back stoop (a very interesting and not too broken soap-box) and from the flamboyant horizon the open country flowed across the thin band of the railroad to his feet.
-- In summer Leora and he drove to the Pony River for picnic suppers and a swim, very noisy, splashing, and immodest; through autumn he went duck-hunting with Bert Tozer, who became nearly tolerable when he stood at sunset on a pass between two slews; and with winter isolating the village in a sun-blank desert of snow, they had sleigh-rides, card-parties, "sociables" at the churches.
-- Martin blared at Dr. Ockford, "Get t'hell out of this, Rufus, and take charge of the department for today--I'm out--I'm dead--and oh, say, get Leora home and fry her a couple o' eggs, and you might bring me a Denver sandwich from the Sunset Trail Lunch, will you?"
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：
-- 'With this idiotic, purely physical weakness, depending on the sunset or something, one can't help doing something stupid!You'll go to Dounia, as well as to Sonia,' he muttered bitterly.
-- Well, she flushes like a sunset and I kiss her every minute.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole effect resembled a sunset as childhood resembles age.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was noon when I awoke, and allured by the warmth of the sun, which shone brightly on the white ground, I de-termined to recommence my travels; and, depositing the remains of the peasant's breakfast in a wallet I found, I pro-122 Frankensteinceeded across the fields for several hours, until at sunset I arrived at a village.
-- The wind, which had hitherto carried us along with amazing rapidity, sank at sunset to a light breeze; the soft 238 Frankensteinair just ruffled the water and caused a pleasant motion among the trees as we approached the shore, from which it wafted the most delightful scent of flowers and hay.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Look at Oat sunset I never saw one redder.
-- Already the plowing was nearly finished, and thebloody glory of the sunset colored the fresh-cut furrows of red Georgia clay to even redder hues.
-- Sunset and spring and new-fledged greenery were no miracle to Scarlett.
-- Not even the crack of a rifle had sounded since sunset and the world seemed faraway.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would always creep in-shore like some uncomfortable amphibious creature, even when the tide would have sent him fast upon his way; and I always think of him as coming after us in the dark or by the back-water, when our own two boats were breaking the sunset or the moonlight in mid-stream.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sunset flush was so bright on Little Dorrit's face when she came thus to the end of her story, that she interposed her hand to shade it.
-- 'No,' said Little Dorrit, with the sunset very bright upon her.
-- A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side.
-- And now, when it was dark below, though they seemed solemnly to recede, like spectres who were going to vanish, as the red dye of the sunset faded out of them and left them coldly white, they were yet distinctly defined in their loneliness above the mists and shadows.
-- As to Miss Fanny, she had become the victim of an insatiate mania for what she called 'going into society;' and would have gone into it head-foremost fifty times between sunset and sunrise, if so many opportunities had been at her disposal.
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