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：
-- Long practised in all the subtle arts of his race, he drew, with great dexterity and quickness, the fantastic shadow that the natives were accustomed to consider as the evidence of a friendly and jocular disposition.
-- The men in the shadow were less reserved.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the dark shadow of the grove, on the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen and towering.
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：
-- It throws a shadow of insincerity over their most deeply felt emotions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They could not see the sun, then hid by the vast screen of the upper cone, which masked the half-horizon of the west, and whose enormous shadow stretching to the shore increased as the radiant luminary sank in its diurnal course.
-- It was by means of the shadow cast on the sand by the stick, a way which, for want of an instrument, would give him a suitable approach to the result which he wished to obtain.
-- In fact, the moment when this shadow would reach its minimum of length would be exactly twelve o'clock, and it would be enough to watch the extremity of the shadow, so as to ascertain the instant when, alter having successively diminished, it began to lengthen.
-- By inclining his stick to the side opposite to the sun, Cyrus Harding made the shadow longer, and consequently its modifications would be more easily ascertained.
-- The shadow of the stick was nothing but the needle of a dial.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the shadow of an archway nearly opposite, leading to one of the many passages which diverged from the main street, there lingered one, who, having taken up his position when the twilight first came on, still maintained it with undiminished patience, and leaning against the wall with the manner of a person who had a long time to wait, and being well used to it was quite resigned, scarcely changed his attitude for the hour together.
-- In a small dull yard below his window, there was a tree green and flourishing enough, for such a place and as the air stirred among its leaves, it threw a rippling shadow on the white wall.
-- The child was at first quite terrified by the sight of these gaunt giants for such they looked as they advanced with lofty strides beneath the shadow of the trees but Short, telling her there was nothing to fear, blew a blast upon the trumpet, which was answered by a cheerful shout.
-- But as this direction relieved them from any shadow of delicacy or uneasiness, they made a hearty meal and enjoyed it to the utmost.
-- The street beyond was so narrow, and the shadow of the houses on one side of the way so deep, that he seemed to have risen out of the earth.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Directly beneath the window a tall, denuded poplar threw its shadow on the gravel of the landing-place, distinctly showing all the ramifications of its bare branches.
-- To the left the roof of a shed seemed white under the bright light of the moon; in front were the tangled branches of the trees, through which was seen the dark shadow of the garden inclosure.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It chanced that the face was towards me; the sightless eyes seemed to watch me; there was the faint shadow of a smile on the lips.
-- It blundered against a block of granite, staggered aside, and in a moment was hidden in a black shadow beneath another pile of ruined masonry.
-- I saw the black central shadow of the eclipse sweeping towards me.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And at this there came suddenly a lowering shadow over his face, and he tightened his grasp upon my hand and raised a forefinger threateningly before my eyes.
-- What I began to do was to envy the doctor walking in the cool shadow of the woods with the birds about him and the pleasant smell of the pines, while I sat grilling, with my clothes stuck to the hot resin, and so much blood about me and so many poor dead bodies lying all around that I took a disgust of the place that was almost as strong as fear.
-- It was a smile that had in it something both of pain and weakness a haggard old man's smile; but there was, besides that, a grain of derision, a shadow of treachery, in his expression as he craftily watched, and watched, and watched me at my work.
-- Perhaps I had heard a creak or seen his shadow moving with the tail of my eye; perhaps it was an instinct like a cat's; but, sure enough, when I looked round, there was Hands, already half-way towards me, with the dirk in his right hand.
-- As the water settled, I could see him lying huddled together on the clean, bright sand in the shadow of the vessel's sides.
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