lighter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 打火机， 引燃器，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your lighter boxes of family papers went up-stairs into a Barmecide room, that always had a great dining-table in it and never had a dinner, and where, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty, the first letters written to you by your old love, 73or by your little children, were but newly released from the horror of being ogled through the windows, by the heads exposed on Temple Bar with an insensate brutality and fe-rocity worthy of Abyssinia or Ashantee.
-- returned Sydney, with a lighter and more goodhumoured laugh, 'don't YOU be moral!'
-- Lighter and lighter, until at last the sun touched the tops of the still trees, and poured its radiance over the hill.
-- With a solemn interest in the lighted windows where the people were going to rest, forgetful through a few calm hours of the horrors surrounding them; in the towers of the churches, where no prayers were said, for the popular revul-sion had even travelled that length of self-destruction from years of priestly impostors, plunderers, and profligates; in the distant burial-places, reserved, as they wrote upon the gates, for Eternal Sleep; in the abounding gaols; and in the streets along which the sixties rolled to a death which had become so common and material, that no sorrowful story of a haunting Spirit ever arose among the people out of all the working of the Guillotine; with a solemn interest in the whole life and death of the city settling down to its short nightly pause in fury; Sydney Carton crossed the Seine again for the lighter streets.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a few seconds the watchman had done the fifty-two thousand of our miles up to the moon, which, as every-one knows, was formed out of matter much lighter than our earth; and is, so we should say, as soft as newly-fallen snow.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It will be lighter for you here," answered her sister-in-law.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hours passed, and the lighter shades now announced the approach of day, though it was not yet light.
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：
-- Her hair was dark brown, a little lighter than her brother's; there was a proud light in her almost black eyes and yet at times a look of extraordinary kindness.
-- His flaxen hair was still abundant, and only touched here and there with grey, and his thick square beard was even lighter than his hair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as the noise inthe playground would have disturbed Mr. Creakle, and theweather was not favourable for going out walking, we wereordered into school in the afternoon, and set some lighter tasksthan usual, which were made for the occasion.
-- But, sometimes, when I took her up, and felt that she was lighter inmy arms, a dead blank feeling came upon me, as if I wereapproaching to some frozen region yet unseen, that numbed mylife.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Living constant-ly with right-minded and well-informed people, her heart and understanding had received every advantage of disci-pline and culture; and Colonel Campbell's residence being in London, every lighter talent had been done full justice to, 198 Emmaby the attendance of first-rate masters.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Liddy," she said, with a lighter heart, for youth and hope had begun to reassert themselves; "you are to be my confidante for the present somebody must be and I choose you.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.
-- I may be absent a month or two; but do not interfere with my motions, I entreat you; leave me to peace and solitude for a short time; and when I return, I hope it will be with a lighter heart, more congenial to your own temper.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were traveling lighter now than when they arrived in Atlanta.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had not occurred to me before, that he had led up to the theme for the purpose of clearing it out of our way; but we were so much the lighter and easier for having broached it, that I now perceived this to be the case.
-- I ascended it now, in lighter boots than of yore, and tapped in my old way at the door of Miss Havisham's room.
-- If it had been in my constitution to be a lighter grubber, I might ha' got into lighter trouble.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Monny's the pleasant word as soom heer has spok'n wi' me; monny's the face I see heer, as I first seen when I were yoong and lighter heart'n than now.
-- Bounderby,' he resumed, in a lighter manner, and yet with a show of effort in assuming it, which was even more expressive than the manner he dismissed; 'it is no irrevocable offence in a young fellow of your brother's years, if he is heedless, inconsiderate, and expensive a little dissipated, in the common phrase.
-- Let them be!We shall sit with lighter bosoms on the hearth, to see the ashes of our fires turn gray and cold.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By degrees, they appear to swell out, break, and gain in number what they lose in grandeur; their heaviness is so great that they are unable to lift themselves from the horizon; but under the influence of the upper currents of air, they are gradually broken up, become much darker, and then present the appearance of one single layer of a formidable character; now and then a lighter cloud, still lit up from above, rebounds upon this grey carpet, and is lost in the opaque mass.
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：
-- 'It's a bit lighter in the park,' he said; 'but take it for fear you get off th' path.'
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