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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'By the Broken Lock that freed me,' said Bagheera, when twilight had fallen, 'thou art no slow goer!'
-- Have a care, manling, that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my coat.'
-- Mowgli went on with his work, but it was nearly twilight before he and the wolves had drawn the great gay skin clear of the body.
-- Shere Khan said he would kill would kill!At the gates in the twilight he would kill Mowgli, the Frog!
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 scene of this tale was in the 42d degree of latitude, where the twilight is never of long continuation.
-- Their progress, in consequence, was proportionate; and long before the twilight gathered about them, they had made good many toilsome miles on their return.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the shadow of an archway nearly opposite, leading to one of the many passages which diverged from the main street, there lingered one, who, having taken up his position when the twilight first came on, still maintained it with undiminished patience, and leaning against the wall with the manner of a person who had a long time to wait, and being well used to it was quite resigned, scarcely changed his attitude for the hour together.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "So we went on in the quiet, and the twilight deepened into night.
-- At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth, a twilight only broken now and then when a comet glared across the darkling sky.
-- But a terrible dread of lying helpless in that remote and awful twilight sustained me while I clambered upon the saddle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Our lamps threw over this place a sort of clear twilight that singularly elongated the shadows on the ground.
-- At five o'clock in the evening, before that fleeting twilight which binds night to day in tropical zones, Conseil and I were astonished by a curious spectacle.
-- The darkness was so complete that I could not even see Captain Nemo; but, looking to the zenith, exactly above my head, I seemed to catch an undecided gleam, a kind of twilight filling a circular hole.
-- The last gleams of twilight were melting into night.
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:
-- And in this twilight of his life little remained visible to him.
-- The twilight was falling slate-blue at the window.
-- Gudrun saw all their loveliness, she knew how immortally beautiful they were, great pistils of rose-coloured, snow-fed fire in the blue twilight of the heaven.
-- "What does the twilight matter?"
-- The twilight spread a weird, unearthly light overhead, bluish-rose in colour, the cold blue night sank on the snow.
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