lighten是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 照亮， 使明亮，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He added that the sum would have been left her all the same in his will, and that therefore she must not consider the gift as in any way an indemnification to her for anything, but that there was no reason, after all, why a man should not be allowed to entertain a natural desire to lighten his conscience, etc., etc.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ThenI would commence a practical demonstration, to which Dorawould pay profound attention, perhaps for five minutes; when shewould begin to be dreadfully tired, and would lighten the subjectby curling my hair, or trying the effect of my face with my shirt-collar turned down.
-- If you have indeed a burdenon your heart, let me try to lighten it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But quite apart from, and independent of, this source of popularity, Mr Swiveller had another, which promised to be equally enduring, and to lighten his position considerably.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man in whose power it was to lighten the condition of the prisoners in St. Petersburg had earned a great number of medals, which, except for a white cross in his button-hole, he did not wear, however.
-- I would live near her, and perhaps lighten her fate----" His emotion again compelled him to stop.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If, then, just now you were to empty the supplementary reservoirs, to lighten the vessel, and to go up to the surface, the pumps must overcome the pressure of 100 atmospheres, which is 1,500 lbs.
-- Now the tides are not strong in the Pacific; and, if you cannot lighten the Nautilus, I do not see how it will be reinflated."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then I will go out too,' she said, 'and see if it will lighten my misery, for I feel as if the world were coming to an end.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't talk to you so as to lighten your mind, for I never see any amusing sights or read any amusing books that it would be a pleasure or a relief to you to talk about, when you are tired.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That to trim the ship, lighten the ship, clean the ship, would be to knock them off; that they could but be knocked off once; and that if the ship went down with them yet sticking to it, that was the ship's look out, and not theirs.
-- You will continue in all such matters to act for both of us, as you have done hitherto, and to lighten my mind of a load it is much relieved from.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then let me advise you to take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now when the boatswain calls all hands to lighten her; when boxes, bales, and jars are clattering overboard; when the wind is shrieking, and the men are yelling, and every plank thunders with trampling feet right over Jonah's head; in all this raging tumult, Jonah sleeps his hideous sleep.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We must mention, however, a note-book and a watch which Gideon Spilett had kept, doubtless by inadvertence, not a weapon, not a tool, not even a pocket-knife; for while in the car they had thrown out everything to lighten the balloon.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we was three-quarters of a mile below we hoisted up our signal lantern; and about ten o'clock it come on to rain and blow and thunder and lighten like ev-ery- thing; so the king told us to both stay on watch till the weather got better; then him and the duke crawled into the wigwam and turned in for the night.
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