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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They both reared up facing each other, and I was expecting a furious fight, when a gurgly, rumbly voice, called out of the darkness to the right 'Children, what are you fighting about there?
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glancing his eyes around, with a vain effort to pierce the gloom that was thickening beneath the leafy arches of the forest, he felt as if, cut off from human aid, his unresisting companions would soon lie at the entire mercy of those barbarous enemies, who, like beasts of prey, only waited till the gathering darkness might render their blows more fatally certain.
-- 'Ay,' returned the composed scout, 'the Indians have hid the beasts with the judgment of natives!Water leaves no trail, and an owl's eyes would be blinded by the darkness of such a hole.'
-- As the last foot touched the rock, the canoe whirled from its station, when the tall form of the scout was seen, for an in-stant, gliding above the waters, before it disappeared in the impenetrable darkness that rested on the bed of the river.
-- 'If we lay among the white tents of the Sixtieth, and in front of an enemy like the French, I could not ask for a bet-ter watchman,' returned the scout; 'but in the darkness and among the signs of the wilderness your judgment would be like the folly of a child, and your vigilance thrown away.
-- Suddenly, Hawkeye made a pause, and, waiting until he was joined by the whole party, he spoke, though in tones so low and cautious, that they added to the solemnity of his words, in the quiet and darkness of the place.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over a deep black part of the stream, not far from the church, was formerly thrown a wooden bridge; the road that led to it, and the bridge it-self, were thickly shaded by overhanging trees, which cast a gloom about it, even in the daytime; but occasioned a fear-ful darkness at night.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wondered what she thought during the long darkness as she sat by the bedside.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had not been perceived, and such was the darkness that they could not even see each other.
-- But Pencroft assured him that that would be a useless course, that in the darkness and deplorable weather he could not find any traces of Neb, and that it would be much better to wait.
-- The darkness was intense.
-- The night was beautiful and still, the darkness was not yet deep.
-- It was possible that something might be found here, but darkness came on, and the further exploration had to be put off to the next day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A cheerful fire was blazing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm and cheering, and in happy contrast to the gloom and darkness I had quitted.
-- A rusty padlock was fastened on the door, ends of discoloured blinds and curtains flapped drearily against the half-opened upper windows, and the crooked holes cut in the closed shutters below, were black with the darkness of the inside.
-- Then was heard the low rumbling of distant thunder, then the lightning quivered, and then the darkness of an hour seemed to have gathered in an instant.
-- The dark form was a mere blot upon the lighter darkness of the room, but she saw the turning of the head, and felt and knew how the eyes looked and the ears listened.
-- She could not pass it; she might have done so, perhaps, in the darkness without being seized, but her blood curdled at the thought.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The darkness of the night was only relieved here and there by white patches of snow, and as the stallion, splashing through the mud-pools, and his ears pricked up at the sight of the fire-pots surrounding the church, entered its inclosure, the service had already begun.
-- As there was no soothing, rest-giving darkness that night, but instead there was a hazy, cheerless, unnatural light, so even was there no rest-giving darkness--ignorance--for Nekhludoff's soul.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The twinkling succession of darkness and light was excessively painful to the eye.
-- I have no doubt they found my second appearance strange enough, coming suddenly out of the quiet darkness with inarticulate noises and the splutter and flare of a match.
-- Darkness to her was the one thing dreadful.
-- But I was so horribly alone, and even to clamber down into the darkness of the well appalled me.
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