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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The splendor of the spectacle increased every instant as night deepened, and the whole sky became lighted up with a dazzling reflection of the blazing crater, while the sun, gradually becoming shorn of his sunset glories, disappeared like a star lost in the distant darkness of the horizon.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The crowds of people walking about as is always the case at sunset in Petersburg, during the summer surprised him, but he walked on in the direction of Rogojin's house.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me.'
-- Thus did they converse, and by sunset the work of the Achaeans was completed; they then slaughtered oxen at their tents and got their supper.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Kemp's solar lamp was lit, albeit the sky was still bright with the sunset light, and his blinds were up because there was no offence of peering outsiders to require them pulled down.
-- And his eye, presently wandering from his work, caught the sunset blazing at the back of the hill that is over against his own.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The colourless clearness that comes after the sunset flush was darkling; the blue sky above grew momentarily deeper, and the little stars one by one pierced the attenuated light; the interspaces of the trees, the gaps in the further veg-etation, that had been hazy blue in the daylight, grew black and mysterious.
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：
-- And he sat about the front looking at the lagoon, and at sunset he would go down and look at Murea.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Sunset of Mankind"A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest.
-- I sat down on it, and I surveyed the broad view of our old world under the sunset of that long day.
-- The ruddy sunset set me thinking of the sunset of mankind.
-- And it was already long past sunset when I came in sight of the palace, silhouetted black against the pale yellow of the sky.
-- Towards sunset I began to consider our position.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The heavy gold glamour of approaching sunset lay over all the colliery district, and the ugliness overlaid with beauty was like a narcotic to the senses.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At sunset the tent was struck, hampers packed, wickets pulled up, boats load-ed, and the whole party floated down the river, singing at the tops of their voices.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.
-- Oh!time was, when as the sunrise nobly spurred me, so the sunset soothed.
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
-- Nor, though placed amongst a ruthless crew and every hour passed by ruthless hands, and through the livelong nights shrouded with thick darkness which might cover any pilfering approach, nevertheless every sunrise found the doubloon where the sunset left it last.
-- Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunters and trappers of the West, when the far west (in whose sunset suns still rise) was a wilderness and a virgin, the same number of moccasined men, for the same number of months, mounted on horse instead of sailing in ships, would have slain not forty, but forty thousand and more buffaloes; a fact that, if need were, could be statistically stated.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was within half-an-hour of sunset when we entered the wood, and a little after sunset when we came into the plain: we met with nothing in the first wood, except that in a little plain within the wood, which was not above two furlongs over, we saw five great wolves cross the road, full speed, one after anoth-er, as if they had been in chase of some prey, and had it in view; they took no notice of us, and were gone out of sight in a few moments.
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