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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a back staircase, dark and narrow, but he was familiar with it already, and knew his way, and he liked all these sur-roundings: in such darkness even the most inquisitive eyes were not to be dreaded.
-- He felt a hammering in his head, and there was a darkness before his eyes.
-- He felt utterly broken: darkness and confusion were in his soul.
-- The ladies slowly followed Razumihin, who went on before, and when they reached the landlady's door on the fourth storey, they noticed that her door was a tiny crack open and that two keen black eyes were watching them from the darkness within.
-- Darkness came over me,' he added suddenly, and was again silent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when he entered, and stood before me with his hand out,the darkness that had fallen on him changed to light, and I feltconfounded and ashamed of having doubted one I loved soheartily.
-- 'My station, Mas'r Davy,' he returned, 'ain't there no longer; and ifever a boat foundered, since there was darkness on the face of thedeep, that one's gone down.
-- Darkness comes before my eyes; and, for a time,all things are blotted out of my remembrance.
-- But there was now a great darkness besides; and that invested thestorm with new terrors, real and fanciful.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We turn our attention to the left-hand characteristics; which were flatness in respect of the river, verticality in respect of the wall behind it, and darkness as to both.
-- This place was his almonry and cloister in one: here, after looking to the feeding of his four-footed dependants, the celibate would walk and meditate of an evening till the moon's rays streamed in through the cobwebbed windows, or total darkness enveloped the scene.
-- His sudden appearance was to darkness what the sound of a trumpet is to silence.
-- "But there was a time when you turned to me, before I thought of you!I don't reproach you, for even now I feel that the ignorant and cold darkness that I should have lived in if you had not attracted me by that letter valentine you call it would have been worse than my knowledge of you, though it has brought this misery.
-- Then the picture vanished, leaving the darkness so intense that Gabriel worked entirely by feeling with his hands.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
-- I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of cau-sation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me a light so brilliant and wondrous, 51yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immen-sity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their in-quiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.
-- Darkness then came over me and troubled me, but hardly had I felt this when, by opening my eyes, as I now suppose, the light poured in upon me again.
-- At one 209time the moon, which had before been clear, was suddenly overspread by a thick cloud, and I took advantage of the moment of darkness and cast my basket into the sea; I lis-tened to the gurgling sound as it sank and then sailed away from the spot.
-- As the images that floated before me became more dis-tinct, I grew feverish; a darkness pressed around me; no one was near me who soothed me with the gentle voice of love; no dear hand supported me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the hill across the river,the tall white chimneys of the Wilkes, home faded gradually into the darkness of the thick oaks surrounding them, andonly far-off pin points of supper lamps showed that a house was here.
-- Thenthere was an excited babble of negro voices in the darkness of the yard and high-pitched negro laughter.
-- Always, faceless soldiers stood on the dark porch and from the darkness many different voices spoke to her.
-- Scarlett resumed her rockingand the still darkness of the warm night closed about them.
-- The night wasdrenched in warm soft darkness and she lay staring into it, dull as an ox.
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