shadow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 阴影， 影子， 荫； 暗处， 阴暗，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She will be worn to a shadow with fasting; and my sis-ter?
-- They haven't a shadow of doubt.'
-- Till then he had not noticed her: she was standing in the shadow in a corner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My aunt walked into thatstory, and walked out of it, a dread and awful personage; but therewas one little trait in her behaviour which I liked to dwell on, andwhich gave me some faint shadow of encouragement.
-- As I went up to myairy old room, the grave shadow of the staircase seemed to fallupon my doubts and fears, and to make the past more indistinct.
-- Theimpending shadow of a great affliction, and a great disgrace thathad no distinct form in it yet, fell like a stain upon the quiet placewhere I had worked and played as a boy; and did it a cruel wrong.
-- 'That is a black shadow to be following the girl,' said Steerforth,standing still; 'what does it mean?'
-- 'From the shadow of this wall, Ithink,' said I, as we emerged upon a road on which a wall abutted.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mild-ness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but di-rected chiefly by her own.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A shadow in his life had always been that his flock ended in mutton that a day came and found every shepherd an arrant traitor to his defenseless sheep.
-- His weary face now began to be painted over with a rich orange glow, and the whole front of his smock-frock and gaiters was covered with a dancing shadow pattern of thorn-twigs the light reaching him through a leafless intervening hedge and the metallic curve of his sheep-crook shone silver-bright in the same abounding rays.
-- Night had always been the time at which he saw Bathsheba most vividly, and through the slow hours of shadow he tenderly regarded her image now.
-- Gabriel saw a candle shining in Bathsheba's bedroom, and soon a shadow swept to and fro upon the blind.
-- Under the shadow of this extemporized lightning-conductor he felt himself comparatively safe.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This position is sufficient to account for the silence prevalent in the streets shut in between the dome of the Pantheon and the dome of the Val-de-Grace, two conspicuous public buildings which give a yellowish tone to the landscape and darken the whole district that lies beneath the shadow of their leaden-hued cupolas.
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If she is, as you believe, innocent, rely on the justice of our laws, and the activity with which I shall prevent the slightest shadow of partiality.'
-- I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.
-- My fa-ther still desired to delay our departure, fearful that I could not sustain the fatigues of a journey, for I was a shattered wreck the shadow of a human being.
-- When I recovered I found myself surrounded by the peo-ple of the inn; their countenances expressed a breathless terror, but the horror of others appeared only as a mockery, a shadow of the feelings that oppressed me.
-- If I looked up, I saw scenes which were familiar to me in my happier time and which I had contemplated but the day before in the company of her who was now but a shadow and a recollection.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- True to her promise, Melanie clung to Scarlett's skirtslike a small rustling shadow and Gerald was too much of a gentleman to upbraid his daughter in front of her.
-- The hours dragged by and the black shadow of calamity brooded over the town, obscuring the hot sun until peoplelooked up startled into the sky as if incredulous that it was clear and blue instead of murky and heavy with scuddingclouds.
-- From the shadow of the porch, Rhett suddenly laughed, a low, soft laugh.
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