darkness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 黑暗，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that peo-ple ran about with flaring links, proffering their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their way.
-- Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
-- He was en- deavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church struck the four quar- ters.
-- The darkness and the mist had vanished with it, for it was a clear, cold, winter day, with snow upon the ground.
-- It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy-cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly pres-ence-nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last.
-- For, the time was to come, when the gaunt scarecrows of that region should have watched the lamplighter, in their idleness and hunger, so long, as to conceive the idea of im-proving on his method, and hauling up men by those ropes and pulleys, to flare upon the darkness of their condition.
-- Darkness had fallen on him in its place.
-- Then, as the darkness closed in, the daughter laid her head down on the hard ground close at the father's side, and watched him.
-- The darkness deepened and deepened, and they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall.
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：
-- The moon was not yet very high; it was besides rather foggy, so that in the darkness all objects seemed mingled in chaotic confusion.
-- In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- came an angry voice out of the stormy darkness on the other side.
-- It was as if darkness had swooped down upon her life; she felt that these children of hers, that she was so proud of, were not merely most ordinary, but positively bad, ill-bred children, with coarse, brutal propensities--wicked children.
-- Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.
-- His work, both on the land and on the book, in which the principles of the new land system were to be laid down, had not been abandoned; but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed to him petty and trivial in comparison with the darkness that overspread all life, now they seemed as unimportant and petty in comparison with the life that lay before him suffused with the brilliant light of happiness.
-- Anna said to herself, standing at the window; and in answer to this statement the impression of the darkness when the candle had flickered out, and of her fearful dream mingling into one, filled her heart with cold terror.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just then the locomotive gave a sharp screech, and the train passed out into the darkness of the night.
-- John Bunsby saw the approach of darkness and the rising of the storm with dark misgivings.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On evenings when the Doc was away, Martin would acquire prestige among the trembling Gang by leading them into the unutterable darkness and scratching a sulfur match on the skeleton's jaw.
-- You may drive through blizzard and August heat, and go down into the purple-shadowed vale of sorrow and wrestle with the ebon- cloaked Powers of Darkness for the lives of your patients, but that heroism is incomplete without Modern Progress, to be obtained by the use of a Bindledorf Tonsillectomy Outfit and the New Idea Panaceatic Cabinet, to be obtained on small payment down, rest on easiest terms known in history of medicine!
-- The darkness of the broad hallway was soothing after the prairie heat and incandescence.
-- When they came blinking out of that darkness lit only from the shadowy screen, he snorted, "I'm going back to the lab.
-- The window-shade was up six inches; it left a milky blur across which streaked yellow lights, emphatic in the noisy darkness of his little cell.
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