luminous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 发光的； 光明的，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The luminous part traced on the sea an immense oval, much elongated, the centre of which condensed a burning heat, whose overpowering brilliancy died out by successive gradations.
-- It made the round of the frigate, which was then making fourteen knots, and enveloped it with its electric rings like luminous dust.
-- I watched the luminous waves that broke over my hand, whose mirror-like surface was spotted with silvery rings.
-- Our prison was suddenly lighted, that is to say, it became filled with a luminous matter, so strong that I could not bear it at first.
-- After shutting my eyes involuntarily, I opened them, and saw that this luminous agent came from a half globe, unpolished, placed in the roof of the cabin.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Purple twigs were darkly luminous in the grey air, high hedges glowed like living shadows, hovering nearer, coming into creation.
-- Birkin looked at the land, at the evening, and was thinking: "Well, if mankind is destroyed, if our race is destroyed like Sodom, and there is this beautiful evening with the luminous land and trees, I am satisfied.
-- In the large darkish kitchen of the mill, the labourer's wife was talking shrilly to Hermione and Gerald, who stood, he in white and she in a glistening bluish foulard, strangely luminous in the dusk of the room; whilst from the cages on the walls, a dozen or more canaries sang at the top of their voices.
-- she insisted, bending her wonderful luminous face to him.
-- And she turned her face to his, that was faintly bright in the light of the lantern, and they stood together in one luminous union, close together and ringed round with light, all the rest excluded.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was sufficient to know that while they were proceeding, the concourse without still lingered round the house; that boys beat upon the drum with their fists, and imitated Punch with their tender voices; that the office-window was rendered opaque by flattened noses, and the key-hole of the street-door luminous with eyes; that every time the single gentleman or either of his guests was seen at the upper window, or so much as the end of one of their noses was visible, there was a great shout of execration from the excluded mob, who remained howling and yelling, and refusing consolation, until the exhibitors were delivered up to them to be attended elsewhere.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous colour like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.
-- A pair of eyes, luminous by reflection against the daylight without, was watching me out of the darkness.
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