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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The splendor of the spectacle increased every instant as night deepened, and the whole sky became lighted up with a dazzling reflection of the blazing crater, while the sun, gradually becoming shorn of his sunset glories, disappeared like a star lost in the distant darkness of the horizon.
-- It is a cowardly beast, that loves the darkness and dreads the light—an owl on four feet."
-- All was darkness and silence around.
-- Profound darkness had again set in, only illumined here and there by a parting flash of lightning.
-- The laird of Malcolm Castle felt the presence of loved ones about him in the darkness as he wandered up and down the lonely strand.
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：
-- 'Bear in mind, Sir Henry, one of the phrases in that queer old leg-end which Dr. Mortimer has read to us, and avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are ex-alted.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing him still on the threshold, more out of the house than in it, as if he had no love for darkness and no desire to probe its mysteries, she flew into the next street, and sent a message into the tavern to Mr Flintwinch, who came out directly.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She opened with hospitable haste, and started as if an-other ghost had come to surprise her, for there stood a tall bearded gentleman, beaming on her from the darkness like a midnight sun.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver, So, wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towards the north with the darkness towards the south wherever in your wisdom you may conclude to lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire the price, and don't be too particular.
-- For when Jonah, not yet supplicating God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts, when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him forth into the sea, for he knew that for his sake this great tempest was upon them; they mercifully turn from him, and seek by other means to save the ship.
-- Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
-- Upon opening my eyes then, and coming out of my own pleasant and self-created darkness into the imposed and coarse outer gloom of the unilluminated twelve-o'clock-at-night, I experienced a disagreeable revulsion.
-- But I should not much wonder if, in the darkness of that early hour of the morning, the shock was after all caused by an unseen whale vertically bumping the hull from beneath.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The darkness and the deep stillness of the room were very solemn; as they brought into the boy's mind the thought that death had been hovering there, for many days and nights, and might yet fill it with the gloom and dread of his awful presence, he turned his face upon the pillow, and fervently prayed to Heaven.
-- As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.
-- The Jew was evidently too familiar with the ground he traversed to be at all bewildered, either by the darkness of the night, or the intricacies of the way.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- called the trainman, as, after a few minutes of darkness and smoke, daylight reappeared.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river.
-- We went gliding swift along, dead silent, past the tip of the paddle- box, and past the stern; then in a second or two more we was a hundred yards below the wreck, and the darkness soaked her up, every last sign of her, and we was safe, and knowed it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned to look and behold, there in the darkness stood two big black shadows, wrapped from head to foot in black sacks.
-- When I awoke they were gone and I started out in the darkness all alone.
-- A little because of the sharp pain in his legs, a little because of fright at finding himself alone in the darkness of the field, the Marionette was about to faint, when he saw a tiny Glowworm flickering by.
-- Around him all was darkness, a darkness so deep and so black that for a moment he thought he had put his head into an inkwell.
-- Pinocchio, as soon as he had said good-by to his good friend, the Tunny, tottered away in the darkness and began to walk as well as he could toward the faint light which glowed in the distance.
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