damp是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /n. /v. 潮湿(的) , 湿气, 使潮湿，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was unwilling to damp my goodfriend's confidence, and therefore assented.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But you must have found it very damp and dirty.
-- I think it would be much better if they would come in one afternoon next sum-mer, and take their tea with us take us in their afternoon walk; which they might do, as our hours are so reasonable, and yet get home without being out in the damp of the eve-ning.
-- A room at an inn was always damp and dangerous; never properly aired, or fit to be inhabited.
-- He did not suppose they could be damp now, in the middle of the day.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its activity in sucking the moisture from the rich damp sod was almost a process observable by the eye.
-- He too stooped, and the lantern standing on the ground betwixt them threw the gleam from its open side among the fir-tree needles and the blades of long damp grass with the effect of a large glowworm.
-- She could think of nothing better to do with her palpitating self than to go in here and hide; and entering, she lighted on a spot sheltered from the damp fog by a reclining trunk, where she sank down upon a tangled couch of fronds and stems.
-- "I suppose the damp air from that hollow has taken it away.
-- Somehow the fun seems to hang fire, though everything's there that a heart can desire, and I couldn't for my soul interfere and throw damp upon it if 'twas to save my life, I couldn't!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The damp atmosphere sends a chill through you as you breathe it; it has a stuffy, musty, and rancid quality; it permeates your clothing; after-dinner scents seem to be mingled in it with smells from the kitchen and scullery and the reek of a hospital.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A great fall of snow had taken place the night before, and the fields were of one uniform white; the appearance was disconsolate, and I found my feet chilled by the cold damp substance that covered the ground.
-- 'But this was a luxury of sensation that could not en-dure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The warm damp balminess of springencompassed her sweetly with the moist smells of new-plowed earth and all the fresh green things pushing up to theair.
-- "Matted and damp are the curls of gold," mourned Scarlett's faulty soprano, and Fanny half rose and said in afaint, strangled voice: "Sing something else!"
-- Her face was damp and herbody was already wet with sweat.
-- "Dey wuz sick wid disyere thing," Mammy gestured with her rag to the two naked girls, dripping with water ontheir damp sheet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.
-- Now, I saw the damp lying on the bare hedges and spare grass, like a coarser sort of spiders' webs; hanging itself from twig to twig and blade to blade.
-- All this time, I was getting on towards the river; but however fast I went, I couldn't warm my feet, to which the damp cold seemed riveted, as the iron was riveted to the leg of the man I was running to meet.
-- In his lay capacity, he persisted in sitting down in the damp to such an insane extent, that when his coat was taken off to be dried at the kitchen fire, the circumstantial evidence on his trousers would have hanged him, if it had been a capital offence.
-- with the feeble malice of a tired man; but, as he had no theory, and no coat on, he was unanimously set at naught,--not to mention his smoking hard behind, as he stood with his back to the kitchen fire to draw the damp out: which was not calculated to inspire confidence.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This project could not be of any great expense to the pub-lic; and might in my poor opinion, be of much use for the despatch of business, in those countries where senates have any share in the legislative power; beget unanimity, shorten debates, open a few mouths which are now closed, and close many more which are now open; curb the petulancy of the young, and correct the positiveness of the old; rouse the stu-pid, and damp the pert.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood before the fire, partly because it was a cool spring afternoon, though the sun shone; partly because the shade of Stone Lodge was always haunted by the ghost of damp mortar; partly because he thus took up a commanding position, from which to subdue Mrs. Gradgrind.
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