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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he passed through the same door as before, and the light of the candle framed it in the darkness and shot one single yellow beam across the gloom of the corridor.
-- I held it as he had done, and stared out into the darkness of the night.
-- How about that hour of darkness in which the pow-er of evil is exalted?'
-- 'And yet it was one thing to laugh about it in London, and it is another to stand out here in the darkness of the moor and to hear such a cry as that.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lizabetha Prokofievna received confirmatory news from the princess and alas, two months after the prince's first departure from St. Petersburg, darkness and mystery once more enveloped his whereabouts and actions, and in the Epanchin family the ice of silence once more formed over the subject.
-- But just now all the gloom and darkness had fled, his heart felt full of joy and hope, there was no such thing as doubt.
-- Next moment he was absolutely unconscious; black darkness blotted out everything.
-- There are spots of darkness on your horizon, though they will disappear when you become completely stupid.
-- Atheism!In our country it is only among the upper classes that you find unbelievers; men who have lost the root or spirit of their faith; but abroad whole masses of the people are beginning to profess unbelief at first because of the darkness and lies by which they were surrounded; but now out of fanaticism, out of loathing for the Church and Christianity!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He struck at the projecting part of his helmet and drove the spear into his brow; the point of bronze pierced the bone, and darkness veiled his eyes; headlong as a tower he fell amid the press of the fight, and as he dropped King Elephe-nor, son of Chalcodon and captain of the proud Abantes began dragging him out of reach of the darts that were fall-ing around him, in haste to strip him of his armour.
-- Thereon darkness veiled his eyes, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.
-- But Peirous, who had wounded him, sprang on him and thrust a spear into his belly, so that his bowels came gushing out upon the ground, and darkness veiled his eyes.
-- Mighty Idomeneus speared him on the right shoulder as he was mounting his chariot, and the darkness of death enshrouded him as he fell heavily from the car.
-- The hero fell on his knees, and propped himself with his hand resting on the ground till the darkness of night fell upon his eyes.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the most part he was quite still during that time; it would seem he sat in the growing darkness smoking in the firelight perhaps dozing.
-- His goggling spectacles and ghastly bandaged face under the penthouse of his hat, came with a disagreeable suddenness out of the darkness upon one or two home-going labourers, and Teddy Henfrey, tumbling out of the "Scarlet Coat" one night, at half-past nine, was scared shamefully by the stranger's skull-like head (he was walking hat in hand) lit by the sudden light of the opened inn door.
-- The hour was about four, and the ultimate darkness of the night was past.
-- And inside, in the artificial darkness of the parlour, into which only one thin jet of sunlight penetrated, the stranger, hungry we must suppose, and fearful, hidden in his uncomfortable hot wrappings, pored through his dark glasses upon his paper or chinked his dirty little bottles, and occasionally swore savagely at the boys, audible if invisible, outside the windows.
-- The unhappy-looking figure in the obsolete silk hat passed up the street of the little village with his burdens, and vanished into the gathering darkness beyond the lights of the windows.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thought of a return to that pain-haunted ref-uge was extremely disagreeable, but still more so was the idea of being overtaken in the open by darkness and all that darkness might conceal.
-- S I drew near the house I saw that the light shone from Athe open door of my room; and then I heard coming from out of the darkness at the side of that orange oblong of light, the voice of Montgomery shouting, 'Prendick!'
-- In the darkest corner of the hut sat a shapeless mass of darkness that grunted 'Hey!'
-- I sit in the darkness and say the Law.'
-- Then suddenly through a polygon of green, in the half darkness under the luxuriant growth, I saw the creature we were hunting.
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