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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The darkness was then profound, and, however good the Canadian's eyes were, I asked myself how he had managed to see, and what he had been able to see.
-- The darkness was intense.
-- Sometimes I tried to pierce the intense darkness that was only dispelled by the phosphorescence caused by our movements.
-- Half an hour had already passed without our situation being bettered, when the dense darkness suddenly gave way to extreme light.
-- But, after all, in order to see, the light must exceed the darkness, and in the midst of the darkness in the water, how can you see?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her long, pale face, that she carried lifted up, somewhat in the Rossetti fashion, seemed almost drugged, as if a strange mass of thoughts coiled in the darkness within her, and she was never allowed to escape.
-- "In the blood," he answered; "when the mind and the known world is drowned in darkness everything must go there must be the deluge.
-- And yet the black looks of her eyes made Gerald feel drowned in some potent darkness that almost frightened him.
-- But the darkness had covered her, she was like a ship that has gone down.
-- Her whole mind was a chaos, darkness breaking in upon it, and herself struggling to gain control with her will, as a swimmer struggles with the swirling water.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides this, the unbroken darkness had had a distressing effect upon my eyes.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stole round by the eastern end, keeping close in shadow, and at a convenient place, where the darkness was thickest, crossed the palisade.
-- At last I think it was on the third night the doctor and I were strolling on the shoulder of the hill where it overlooks the lowlands of the isle, when, from out the thick darkness below, the wind brought us a noise between shrieking and singing.
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