gleam是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vi. 微光, 闪光, 短暂而微弱的闪现，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：
-- A sudden gleam flashed into the eyes of Kai-Koumou, and he said in a deep voice:"Exchange you, if your own people care to have you; eat you if they don't."
-- The New Zealanders think that thunder is the angry voice of Noui-Atoua, and lightning the fierce gleam of his eyes.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was strange to see this single candle burning there in the middle of the moor, with no sign of life near it just the one straight yel-low flame and the gleam of the rock on each side of it.
-- The lady looked quickly up with an angry gleam in her hazel eyes.
-- The gleam of the match which he struck shone upon his clotted fingers and upon the ghastly pool which widened slowly from the crushed skull of the victim.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when some great forest fire is raging upon a mountain top and its light is seen afar, even so as they marched the gleam of their armour flashed up into the firmament of heaven.
-- On his head Agamemnon set a helmet, with a peak before and behind, and four plumes of horse-hair that nod-ded menacingly above it; then he grasped two redoubtable bronze-shod spears, and the gleam of his armour shot from him as a flame into the firmament, while Juno and Minerva thundered in honour of the king of rich Mycene.
-- All of them blamed the son of Saturn for wanting to give victory to the Trojans, but father Jove heeded them not: he held aloof from all, and sat apart in his all-glori-ous majesty, looking down upon the city of the Trojans, the ships of the Achaeans, the gleam of bronze, and alike upon the slayers and on the slain.
-- As the lightning which the son of Saturn brandishes from bright Olympus when he would show a sign to mortals, and its gleam flashes far and wide even so did his armour gleam about him as he ran.
-- As the light seen by sailors from out at sea, when men have lit a fire in their homestead high up among the mountains, but the sailors are carried out to sea by wind and storm far from the haven where they would be even so did the gleam of Achilles' wondrous shield strike up into the heavens.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that transitory gleam of the true animalism of these mon-sters was enough.
-- The Satyr was a gleam of classical memory on the part of Moreau, his face ovine in expression, like the coarser Hebrew type; his voice a harsh bleat, his nether extremities Satanic.
-- When I saw them approach-ing those wretched remains, heard them snarling at one another and caught the gleam of their teeth, a frantic hor-ror succeeded my repulsion.
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：
-- 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.
-- David smiled sadly, though not without a momentary gleam of pleasure, at this allusion to his beloved vocation.
-- A gleam of light from the opening crossed his wan countenance, and fell upon the pages of the little volume, whose leaves he was again occupied in turning, as if search-ing for some song more fitted to their condition than any that had yet met their eye.
-- He had even thought of retreating beyond a curvature in the natu-ral wall, which might still conceal him and his companions, when by the sudden gleam of intelligence that shot across the features of the savage, he saw it was too late, and that they were betrayed.
-- At the allusion to the injury which Duncan affected to believe had driven the Huron from his native tribe, a gleam of such ungov-ernable ferocity flashed from the other's eyes, as induced the adventurous speaker to believe he had struck the proper chord.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was gaunt and shagged, with a ewe neck, and a head like a hammer; his rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genu-ine devil in it.
-- All these tales, told in that drowsy undertone with which men talk in the dark, the countenances of the listeners only now and then receiving a casual gleam from the glare of a pipe, sank deep in the mind of Ichabod.
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：
-- I do not know why he said this, for I felt certain I had caught a gleam of recognition in his eyes.
-- he said, with a gleam of anger in his eyes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as the first gleam of light appeared in the east, the colonists, suitably armed, repaired to the beach under Granite House.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It happened that at that moment the lady of the caravan had her cup (which, that everything about her might be of a stout and comfortable kind, was a breakfast cup) to her lips, and that having her eyes lifted to the sky in her enjoyment of the full flavour of the tea, not unmingled possibly with just the slightest dash or gleam of something out of the suspicious bottle but this is mere speculation and not distinct matter of history it happened that being thus agreeably engaged, she did not see the travellers when they first came up.
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