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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vaguely I could discern the black bank of the trees and the lighter expanse of the moor, for the moon was behind the clouds.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bright night seemed to him to be lighter than ever.
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 scout delayed his departure to speak to the generous girl, whose breathing became lighter as she saw the success of her remonstrance.
-- With a light step and lighter heart, he re-turned to the center of the cave, and took the place he had left, where he could command a view of the opening next the river.
-- 'He will make the fire-water from the islands in the salt lake flow before the wigwam of Magua, until the heart of the Indian shall be lighter than the feathers of the humming-bird, and his breath sweeter than the wild honeysuckle.'
-- ex-claimed the breathless woman, tearing the lighter articles of dress from her person with ill-directed and trembling fingers; 'take all, but give me my babe!'
-- The clouds, as if tired of their furious chase, were breaking asunder; the heavier volumes, gath-ering in black masses about the horizon, while the lighter scud still hurried above the water, or eddied among the tops of the mountains, like broken flights of birds, hov-ering around their roosts.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms, helped to make hay, mend-ed the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At dawn, some of the lighter clouds had risen into the more lofty regions of the air.
-- This quadruped was a sort of pig nearly two feet and a half long, of a blackish brown color, lighter below, having hard scanty hair; its toes, then strongly fixed in the ground, seemed to be united by a membrane.
-- It was necessary to bring the case to Granite House, and the colonists employed themselves in rendering their heavy cart lighter and more manageable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was calmed and comforted by the thought, and went to rest with a lighter heart.
-- Her resolution taken, she sewed the piece of gold into her dress, and going to bed with a lighter heart sunk into a deep slumber.
-- A few confined themselves to hints, such as politely inquiring what red-letter day or saint's day the almanack said it was; a few (these were the profound village politicians) argued that it was a slight to the throne and an affront to church and state, and savoured of revolutionary principles, to grant a half-holiday upon any lighter occasion than the birthday of the Monarch; but the majority expressed their displeasure on private grounds and in plain terms, arguing that to put the pupils on this short allowance of learning was nothing but an act of downright robbery and fraud: and one old lady, finding that she could not inflame or irritate the peaceable schoolmaster by talking to him, bounced out of his house and talked at him for half-an-hour outside his own window, to another old lady, saying that of course he would deduct this half-holiday from his weekly charge, or of course he would naturally expect to have an opposition started against him; there was no want of idle chaps in that neighbourhood (here the old lady raised her voice), and some chaps who were too idle even to be schoolmasters, might soon find that there were other chaps put over their heads, and so she would have them take care, and look pretty sharp about them.
-- These latter necessaries hung upon the walls, which, in that portion of the establishment devoted to the lady of the caravan, were ornamented with such gayer and lighter decorations as a triangle and a couple of well-thumbed tambourines.
-- When she had exhibited these leviathans of public announcement to the astonished child, she brought forth specimens of the lesser fry in the shape of hand-bills, some of which were couched in the form of parodies on popular melodies, as 'Believe me if all Jarley's wax-work so rare' 'I saw thy show in youthful prime' 'Over the water to Jarley;' while, to consult all tastes, others were composed with a view to the lighter and more facetious spirits, as a parody on the favourite air of 'If I had a donkey,' beginning,If I know'd a donkey wot wouldn't goTo see Mrs JARLEY'S wax-work show,Do you think I'd acknowledge him?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And having now got the Channel between himself and John Chivery, he began to feel safe, and to find that the foreign air was lighter to breathe than the air of England.
-- Your misconstruction and misunderstanding of the cause in which, and the motives with which, I have worked out this work, is lighter to endure than his would be.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin-back resembles the right whale, but is of a less portly girth, and a lighter colour, approaching to olive.
-- Not at all, but I have ye; for at the time poor Tash fell in, the case had been nearly emptied of its lighter contents, leaving little but the dense tendinous wall of the well a double welded, hammered substance, as I have before said, much heavier than the sea water, and a lump of which sinks in it like lead almost.
-- Steel and wood included, the entire spear is some ten or twelve feet in length; the staff is much slighter than that of the harpoon, and also of a lighter material pine.
-- By this time Stubb was over the side, and getting into his boat, hailed the Guernsey-man to this effect, that having a long tow-line in his boat, he would do what he could to help them, by pulling out the lighter whale of the two from the ship's side.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it was something to feel certain that assistance was sent for, and that no time had been lost, Oliver hurried up the inn-yard, with a somewhat lighter heart.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An effort even yet lighter might have made her their friend.
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