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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am distantly related to you, and this obscure and remote relationship is even now a perfect godsend to me.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had an obscure feeling that all was not over and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past.
-- It had then filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy.
-- He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris.
-- In the Sorrows of Wert-er, besides the interest of its simple and affecting story, so many opinions are canvassed and so many lights thrown upon what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects that I found in it a never-ending source of speculation and as-tonishment.
-- Observe how fast we move along and how the clouds, which sometimes obscure and some-times rise above the dome of Mont Blanc, render this scene of beauty still more interesting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not because I was squeezed in at an acute angle of the tablecloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn't want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain.
-- I kept an eye on Orlick after that night, and, whenever circumstances were favorable to his dancing at Biddy, got before him to obscure that demonstration.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was told that a great court lady, who had several children, is married to the prime min-ister, the richest subject in the kingdom, a very graceful person, extremely fond of her, and lives in the finest pal-ace of the island, went down to Lagado on the pretence of health, there hid herself for several months, till the king sent a warrant to search for her; and she was found in an obscure eating-house all in rags, having pawned her clothes 207to maintain an old deformed footman, who beat her every day, and in whose company she was taken, much against her will.
-- 'Add to this, the pleasure of seeing the various revolu-tions of states and empires; the changes in the lower and 265upper world; ancient cities in ruins, and obscure villages become the seats of kings; famous rivers lessening into shallow brooks; the ocean leaving one coast dry, and over-whelming another; the discovery of many countries yet unknown; barbarity overrunning the politest nations, and the most barbarous become civilized.
-- I was able to invent names for my parents, whom I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Gelderland.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently he gave forth the result tone.of his "What reflections appears in a obscure sententious to you, to me is light.
-- This last observation referred to the obscure gallery, and was indicated to us by the compass.
-- The descent of this obscure and narrow gallery was very gradual and winding.
-- "Wonderful and glorious genius, great Saknussemm," he cried, "you have left no stone unturned, no resource omitted, to show to other mortals the way into the interior of our mighty globe, and your fellow creatures can find the trail left by your illustrious footsteps, three hundred years ago, at the bottom of these obscure subterranean abodes.
-- These ideas presented themselves to my mind in a very vague and obscure manner.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even so much official uniform as the clergyman wore was enough to obscure entirely the fact that he was a man like any other man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is competent,' said Mr Barnacle, 'to any member of the Public,' mentioning that obscure body with reluctance, as his natural enemy, 'to memorialise the Circumlocution Department.
-- Little recked the Collegians who were laughing in their rooms over his late address in the Lodge, what a serious picture they had in their obscure gallery of the Marshalsea that Sunday night.
-- Little Dorrit, as her eyes became used to the darkness, faintly made him out at the bottom of the well, in an obscure corner by himself, with his instrument in its ragged case under his arm.
-- Genteel blinds and makeshifts were more or less observable as soon as their doors were opened; screens not half high enough, which made dining-rooms out of arched passages, and warded off obscure corners where footboys slept at nights with their heads among the knives and forks; curtains which called upon you to believe that they didn't hide anything; panes of glass which requested you not to see them; many objects of various forms, feigning to have no connection with their guilty secret, a bed; disguised traps in walls, which were clearly coal-cellars; affectations of no thoroughfares, which were evidently doors to little kitchens.
-- How will it be with us, and with her, in the obscure distance?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You won't see me, you'll be crying so hard that the thick fog round you will obscure the prospect.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only that, but the subtle insanity of Ahab respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly manifested than in his superlative sense and shrewdness in foreseeing that, for the present, the hunt should in some way be stripped of that strange imaginative impiousness which naturally invested it; that the full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure background (for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action); that when they stood their long night watches, his officers and men must have some nearer things to think of than Moby Dick.
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