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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They have refused me a ship!They talked of the millions that had been wasted in search for Franklin, and declared the document was obscure and unintelligible.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Rogojin vaguely, not taking in what the prince meant by his rather obscure remarks.
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：
-- The whites have assisted greatly in rendering the tradi-tions of the Aborigines more obscure by their own manner of corrupting names.
-- The light of an obscure moon was just sufficient to render objects, though dim, perceptible in their outlines.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tried to persuade myself than an obscure feeling of revolt had been gradually coming to a head in his slow mind, but to challenge this was the undoubted fact that he had never shown any impatience with the monotony of his life.
-- He seemed to partake of those obscure forces of nature which the Greeks personified in shapes part human and part beast, the satyr and the faun.
-- The books he liked were queer; sometimes I would find him poring over the poems of Mallarme, and he read them as a child reads, forming the words with his lips, and I wondered what strange emotion he got from those subtle cadences and obscure phrases; and again I found him absorbed in the detective novels of Gaboriau.
-- Something impelled him to go to the studio, some obscure desire for self-torture, and yet he dreaded the anguish that he foresaw.
-- I have given incidents that came to my knowledge, but they remain obscure because I do not know the reasons that led to them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this amiable mood, Mr Quilp enlivened himself and his hatreds with more brandy, and then, changing his quarters, withdrew to an obscure alehouse, under cover of which seclusion he instituted all possible inquiries that might lead to the discovery of the old man and his grandchild.
-- The obscure citizen who keeps the hotel over the way, inclined strongly to that opinion to-night when I ordered him to prepare the banquet.
-- Every object was obscure at one or two yards' distance.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But being unable to account for it all, she did the customary thing for her--banished all these recollections from her mind, and endeavored to obscure them by a life of dissipation.
-- Vera Bogodukhovskaia was a teacher in the obscure district of Novgorod, whither Nekhludoff, on one occasion, went bear hunting with his friends.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, more than thirty million years hence, the huge red-hot dome of the sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of all this the lamp still cast a smoky glow, obscure and brown as umber.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This book, highly approved of in the learned world, gained for me a special reputation in this rather obscure branch of Natural History.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was not so great a necessity for hurrying as Mr. Sowerberry had anticipated, however; for when they reached the obscure corner of the churchyard in which the nettles grew, and where the parish graves were made, the clergyman had not arrived; and the clerk, who was sitting by the vestry-room fire, seemed to think it by no means improbable that it might be an hour or so, before he came.
-- CHAPTER XV SHOWING HOW VERY FOND OF OLIVER TWIST, THE MERRY OLD JEW AND MISS NANCY WERE In the obscure parlour of a low public-house, in the filthiest part of Little Saffron Hill; a dark and gloomy den, where a flaring gas-light burnt all day in the winter-time; and where no ray of sun ever shone in the summer: there sat, brooding over a little pewter measure and a small glass, strongly impregnated with the smell of liquor, a man in a velveteen coat, drab shorts, half-boots and stockings, whom even by that dim light no experienced agent of the police would have hesitated to recognise as Mr. William Sikes.
-- CHAPTER XIX IN WHICH A NOTABLE PLAN IS DISCUSSED AND DETERMINED ON It was a chill, damp, windy night, when the Jew: buttoning his great-coat tight round his shrivelled body, and pulling the collar up over his ears so as completely to obscure the lower part of his face: emerged from his den.
-- 'If I had been less--less fortunate, the world would call it--if some obscure and peaceful life had been my destiny--if I had been poor, sick, helpless--would you have turned from me then?
-- 'At nine in the evening,' said the stranger, producing a scrap of paper, and writing down upon it, an obscure address by the water-side, in characters that betrayed his agitation; 'at nine in the evening, bring her to me there.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They threatened to cover and obscure his life with chilly greyness.
-- She felt that she was so obscure it did not matter.
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