twilight是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 曙光, 黎明, 黄昏,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:
-- They travelled in the night, halting an hour or two af-352 A tale of two citiester daybreak, and lying by until the twilight fell.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She sat down on her lounge beside Annushka, and looked about her in the twilight of the sleeping-carriage.
-- Looking round him in the twilight of the horse-box, Vronsky unconsciously took in once more in a comprehensive glance all the points of his favorite mare.
-- And kissing Kitty once more, without saying what was important, she stepped out courageously with the music under her arm and vanished into the twilight of the summer night, bearing away with her her secret of what was important and what gave her the calm and dignity so much to be envied.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His memory fumbled for a pale blue twilight in Munich, a bridge and a waiting girl, and the sound of music.)
-- They had never been so frank, so pitiful, as in this one unarmored look which recalled every jest, every tenderness, every twilight they had known together.
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:
-- The twilight had fallen and the full moon was shining more and more brightly; but there was a peculiar breathlessness in the air.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Towardsthe twilight I went out by myself, musing on what I ought to do,and whether I was justified in withholding from Agnes, anylonger, what Uriah Heep had told me in London: for that began totrouble me again, very much.
-- It was twilight when we reached the cottage.
-- As Iwalked to and fro in the garden, and the twilight began to closearound me, their little voices were hushed; and that peculiarsilence which belongs to such an eve- ning in the country when thelightest trees are quite still, save for the occasional droppings fromtheir boughs, prevailed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The slow twilight expanded and enveloped them completely before the signs of moving were shown.
-- By reason of the density of the interwoven foliage overhead, it was gloomy there at cloudless noontide, twilight in the evening, dark as midnight at dusk, and black as the ninth plague of Egypt at midnight.
-- PARTICULARS OF A TWILIGHT WALKWe now see the element of folly distinctly mingling with the many varying particulars which made up the character of Bathsheba Everdene.
-- He turned his face away, and withdrew, and his form was soon covered over by the twilight as his footsteps mixed in with the low hiss of the leafy trees.
-- It had grown twilight before she was aware, but Boldwood assured her that there was no cause for uneasiness, as the moon would be up in half-an-hour.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Why, only last week, when they were riding home at twilight from Fairhill, he had said: "Scarlett, I havesomething so important to tell you that I hardly know how to say it."
-- The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, andthe unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
-- Moreover, now that she was away from Tara,she missed it dreadfully, missed the red fields and the springing green cotton and the sweet twilight silences.
-- He had been silent since supper and had sat in the twilight listening to the war talk with adown-twisted mouth, holding the sleeping child against his shoulder.
-- When twilight came on and Prissy, scurrying like a black wraith, lit a lamp, Melanie became weaker.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After looking at the twilight without, for a little while, she went on to say:--"The time has come round when Miss Havisham wishes to have me for a day at Satis.
-- Twilight was closing in when I went downstairs into the natural air.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All this while, Louisa had been passing on, so quiet and reserved, and so much given to watching the bright ashes at twilight as they fell into the grate, and became extinct, that from the period when her father had said she was almost a young woman which seemed but yesterday she had scarcely attracted his notice again, when he found her quite a young woman.
-- But, after dinner, when the day turned to twilight, and the twilight turned to night, and still no communication was made to him, it began to be as he expressed it, 'like the Holy Office and slow torture.'
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