obscure是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不出名的, 不重要的; 费解的; 模糊不清的; vt. 使变模糊, 掩盖，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before, al-though he recognised its situation, and its bad repute.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The court was all astir and a-buzz, when the black sheep whom many fell away from in dread pressed him into an obscure corner among the crowd.
-- The speaker seemed to acknowledge that it was inconvenient to have that different order of creature dying there, and that it would have been better if he had died in the usual obscure routine of his vermin kind.
-- Then, issuing from the obscure corner from which he had never moved, Sydney Carton came and took her up.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He put this down to his own credit, unaware that Metrov, who had already discussed his theory over and over again with all his intimate friends, talked of it with special eagerness to every new person, and in general was eager to talk to anyone of any subject that interested him, even if still obscure to himself.
-- At the bottom of her heart was some obscure idea that alone interested her, but she could not get clear sight of it.
-- As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as SPIRIT, WILL, FREEDOM, ESSENCE, purposely letting himself go into the snare of words the philosophers set for him, he seemed to comprehend something.
-- And all of a sudden the same Fyodor says that one mustn't live for one's belly, but must live for truth, for God, and at a hint I understand him!And I and millions of men, men who lived ages ago and men living now-- peasants, the poor in spirit and the learned, who have thought and written about it, in their obscure words saying the same thing--we are all agreed about this one thing: what we must live for and what is good.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout did not observe the detective, who stood in an obscure corner; but Fix heard him relate his adventures in a few words to Mr. Fogg.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't care whether he has all science at his fingertips, whether he can instantly diagnose with a considerable degree of accuracy the most obscure ailment, whether he has the surgical technique of a Mayo, a Crile, a Blake, an Ochsner, a Cushing.
-- It is a tangle of ver-y obscure emotions, like mysticism, or wanting to write poetry; it makes its victim all different from the good normal man.
-- Since their evening in Minneapolis he had drunk and debated and flamboyantly ridden to obscure but vinuous destinations with too many people.
-- Chapter 32 There may have been in the shadowy heart of Max Gottlieb a diabolic insensibility to divine pity, to suffering humankind; there may have been mere resentment of the doctors who considered his science of value only as it was handy to advertising their business of healing; there may have been the obscure and passionate and unscrupulous demand of genius for privacy.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had shown signs of some obscure nervous disease be-fore his arrest and this now developed into violent attacks of epilepsy, from which he suffered for the rest of his life.
-- In one place one hears of a student's robbing the mail on the high road; in another place people of good social position forge false banknotes; in Moscow of late a whole gang has been captured who used to forge lottery tickets, and one of the ringleaders was a lec-turer in universal history; then our secretary abroad was murdered from some obscure motive of gain芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars,and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones ofwhich may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my 164childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting inthe crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, tothe echo of Captain Hopkins's voice!When my thoughts go backnow, to that slow agony of my youth, I wonder how much of thehistories I invented for such people hangs like a mist of fancy overwell-remembered facts!When I tread the old ground, I do notwonder that I seem to see and pity, going on before me, aninnocent romantic boy, making his imaginative world out of suchstrange experiences and sordid things.
-- He was a sober, steady-lookingyoung man of retiring manners, with a comic head of hair, andeyes that were rather wide open; and he got into an obscure cornerso soon, that I had some diffi- culty in making him out.
-- Let it besomewhere beyond reach; in some obscure life- or better still, insome obscure death.
-- 'The obscure initials 'W.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Turning down an obscure street and entering an obscurer lane, he went up to a smith's shop.
-- In this meditative walk his foot met the floor with heel and toe simultaneously, and his fine reddish-fleshed face was bent downwards just enough to render obscure the still mouth and the well-rounded though rather prominent and broad chin.
-- It was on the obscure side of the tower, screened to a great extent from the view of passers along the road a spot which until lately had been abandoned to heaps of stones and bushes of alder, but now it was cleared and made orderly for interments, by reason of the rapid filling of the ground elsewhere.
-- Sometimes this obscure corner received no inhabitant for the space of two or three years, and then it was usually but a pauper, a poacher, or other sinner of undignified sins.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, the man appeared to have been one of the beasts of burden in our great social mill; one of those Parisian Ratons whom their Bertrands do not even know by sight; a pivot in the obscure machinery that disposes of misery and things unclean; one of those men, in short, at sight of whom we are prompted to remark that, "After all, we cannot do without them."
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