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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the summit was a circular orifice, by which I had caught the slight gleam of light, evidently daylight.
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:
-- Still the faint glamour of blackness persisted over the fields and the wooded hills, and seemed darkly to gleam in the air.
-- And moving in the rapid, stationary dance, he came a little nearer, and reached forward with an incredibly mocking, satiric gleam on his face, and would have kissed her again, had she not started back.
-- It was kindled, and they all stood back to look at the great blue moon of light that hung from Ursula's hand, casting a strange gleam on her face.
-- He looked round at her, and his face, very pale and unreal, seemed to gleam with a whiteness almost phosphorescent.
-- He looked at her, and the whitish, electric gleam in his face intensified.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I descended cautiously to the lower regions, and landed in the back kitchen, where a gleam of fire, raked compactly together, enabled me to rekindle my candle.
-- I declined joining their breakfast, and, at the first gleam of dawn, took an opportunity of escaping into the free air, now clear, and still, and cold as impalpable ice.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sitting by the side of these wells, and peering down into the shafted darkness, I could see no gleam of water, nor could I start any reflection with a lighted match.
-- Then the tall pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain and the polished gleam of its walls came back to my memory; and in the evening, taking Weena like a child upon my shoulder, I went up the hills towards the south-west.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not a bough waved, not the gleam of a musket-barrel betrayed the presence of our foes.
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