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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why sadden the poor children, and damp their newly cherished hopes?
-- She made rapid progress, and passed the Tropic of Cancer on the second of September at 5 A. M.The weather now began to change, and the atmosphere became damp and heavy.
-- Wrapped in these warm coverings a traveler may sleep soundly, and brave exposure to the damp nights.
-- This he laid on a bed of damp leaves, just where the large branches began to fork out, forming a natural hearth, where there was little fear of conflagration.
-- The damp mist began to clear away, and a sudden gleam of light revealed a low-lying shore about six miles distant.
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：
-- 'Damp and raw.'
-- We can understand his taking an evening stroll, but the ground was damp and the night inclement.
-- The night air was heavy with the smell of damp and decay.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows.
-- It was damp and wet.
-- Now listen and learn; in the first place buy good powder, not damp (they say it mustn't be at all damp, but very dry), some fine kind it is you must ask for PISTOL powder, not the stuff they load cannons with.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Twice I doubled round corners, thrice I crossed the road and came back upon my tracks, and then, as my feet grew hot and dry, the damp impressions began to fade.
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：
-- According to the orders of the preceding night, the heavy sleep of the army was broken by the rolling of the warning drums, whose rattling echoes were heard issuing, on the damp morning air, out of every vista of the woods, just as day began to draw the shaggy outlines of some tall pines of the vicinity, on the opening brightness of a soft and cloud-less eastern sky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know,' said Mr. Brownlow; 'I rather think I had a damp napkin at dinner-time yesterday; but never mind that.
-- 'I don't know what comes over me sometimes,' said she, affecting to busy herself in arranging her dress; 'it's this damp dirty room, I think.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No senti-ment of shame gave a damp to her triumph.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it was, I had not the least advantage by it or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the damp of the cave in the wet seasons; and if I had had the drawer full of diamonds, it had been the same case - they had been of no manner of value to me, because of no use.
-- Accordingly, I spent some time to find out the most re-tired parts of the island; and I pitched upon one, which was as private, indeed, as my heart could wish: it was a little damp piece of ground in the middle of the hollow and thick woods, where, as is observed, I almost lost myself once be-fore, endeavouring to come back that way from the eastern part of the island.
-- The place I was in was a most delightful cavity, or grotto, though perfectly dark; the floor was dry and level, and had a sort of a small loose gravel upon it, so that there was no nauseous or venomous creature to be seen, neither was there any damp or wet on the sides or roof.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because he chanced to complain yesterday (a very cold damp day) of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders."
-- She had depended on a twilight walk to the Grecian temple, and perhaps all over the grounds, and an evening merely cold or damp would not have deterred her from it; but a heavy and settled rain even SHE could not fancy dry or pleasant weather for walking.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We went along a narrow place and got into a kind of room, all damp and sweaty and cold, and there we stopped.
-- And, mind you, everybody was doing the same; and the place was that damp I never see anything like it.
-- We had dinner out in that broad open passage be- twixt the house and the kitchen; and there was things enough on that table for seven families and all hot, too; none of your flabby, tough meat that's laid in a cupboard in a damp cellar all night and tastes like a hunk of old cold cannibal in the morning.
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