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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were joined by no stragglers from the village, for the weather was cold and threatening, the way dreary, the footing bad, darkness coming on, and the people had good fires in-doors and were keeping the day.
-- In the heavy air of the room, and the heavy darkness that brooded in its remoter corners, I even had an alarming fancy that Estella and I might presently begin to decay.
-- He then put up the pocket-book and set the candle a little aside, after peering round it into the darkness at Joe and me, to ascertain which was which.
-- But I must have lost it longer than I had thought, since, although I could recognize nothing in the darkness and the fitful lights and shadows of our lamps, I traced marsh country in the cold damp wind that blew at us.
-- After overhearing this dialogue, I should assuredly have got down and been left in the solitude and darkness of the highway, but for feeling certain that the man had no suspicion of my identity.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When darkness came on, he saw a light, which he went up to, and came to a house wherein lived a witch.
-- And when they looked round they found that they had been sleeping quite close to a precipice, and would cer-tainly have fallen into it in the darkness if they had gone only a few paces further.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Sleary philosophy was propounded as they went downstairs and the fixed eye of Philosophy and its rolling eye, too soon lost the three figures and the basket in the darkness of the street.
-- While the ceremony was performing, and while he recognized among the witnesses some whom he knew to be living, and many whom he knew to be dead, darkness came on, succeeded by the shining of a tremendous light.
-- She sat at the window, when the sun began to sink behind the smoke; she sat there, when the smoke was burning red, when the colour faded from it, when darkness seemed to rise slowly out of the ground, and creep upward, upward, up to the house-tops, up the church steeple, up to the summits of the factory chimneys, up to the sky.
-- As she sat looking straight before her, across the changing lights upon the grass into the darkness of the wood beyond, he saw in her face her application of his very distinctly uttered words.
-- At last, when the darkness and stillness had seemed for hours to thicken one another, she heard the bell at the gate.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anything more suggestive of gloom and of regions of nether darkness I never beheld.
-- The darkness increased and became indeed darkness visible.
-- Then all went out and darkness once more fell upon the deep!I had just time to see my uncle once more cast apparently senseless on the flooring of the raft, Hans at the helm, "spitting fire" under the influence of the electricity which seemed to have gone through him.
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 was cold on this hillside, and not a flower in the darkness of larches.
-- Even above the hissing boom of the larchwood, that spread its bristling, leafless, wolfish darkness on the down-slope, she heard the tinkle as of tiny water-bells.
-- It was hardly making darkness among the oaks any more.
-- He drew her dress in the darkness down over her knees and stood a few mo-ments, apparently adjusting his own clothing.
-- He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It required some judgment to do it without butting the inner hall-door open, and in the consequent mental confusion and physical darkness slipping down the kitchen stairs.
-- But as she was very good-natured, and said, 'Come with me; I'll soon find Miss Dorrit for you,' Miss Dorrit's sister went with her, drawing nearer and nearer at every step she took in the darkness to the sound of music and the sound of dancing feet.
-- The voice in the darkness unexpectedly replied, 'Lives here.'
-- Mistress Affery, whose fear of thunder and lightning was only to be equalled by her dread of the haunted house with a premature and preternatural darkness in it, stood undecided whether to go in or not, until the question was settled for her by the door blowing upon her in a violent gust of wind and shutting her out.
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