dusk是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 薄暮， 黄昏，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XIII MR. MARVEL DISCUSSES HIS RESIGNATION When the dusk was gathering and Iping was just beginning to peep timorously forth again upon the shattered wreckage of its Bank Holiday, a short, thick-set man in a shabby silk hat was marching painfully through the twilight behind the beechwoods on the road to Bramblehurst.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eyes shone brightly out of the dusk under the trees.
-- The sun had set some minutes since, the swift dusk of the tropics was already fading out of the east-ern sky, and a pioneer moth fluttered silently by my head.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was often his delight, after his school was dis-missed in the afternoon, to stretch himself on the rich bed of clover bordering the little brook that whimpered by his school-house, and there con over old Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk of evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It has been since supposed, with some reason, that this slumber was a sham or feint, as she contrived to slip away unobserved in the dusk of the afternoon.
-- Mention having been made of the dusk of the afternoon, it will be inferred that Mr Brass's task occupied some time in the completion.
-- Then, when the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave in that calm time, when outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God.
-- There were many such whispers as these in circulation; but the truth appears to be that, after the lapse of some five years (during which there is no direct evidence of her having been seen at all), two wretched people were more than once observed to crawl at dusk from the inmost recesses of St Giles's, and to take their way along the streets, with shuffling steps and cowering shivering forms, looking into the roads and kennels as they went in search of refuse food or disregarded offal.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was determined to reach the White Sphinx early the next morning, and ere the dusk I purposed pushing through the woods that had stopped me on the previous journey.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mail picked us up about dusk at the Royal George on the heath.
-- About the same time, the sun went fairly down and the breeze whistled low in the dusk among the tossing pines.
-- The dusk had come nigh hand completely, and as I opened out the cleft between the two peaks, I became aware of a wavering glow against the sky, where, as I judged, the man of the island was cooking his supper before a roaring fire.
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：
-- In the large darkish kitchen of the mill, the labourer's wife was talking shrilly to Hermione and Gerald, who stood, he in white and she in a glistening bluish foulard, strangely luminous in the dusk of the room; whilst from the cages on the walls, a dozen or more canaries sang at the top of their voices.
-- "You're quite right," said the soft voice of Gerald, out of the dusk behind.
-- The dusk was just dimming the hollows of crowded houses.
-- The terrible silence and cold and the glamorous whiteness of the dusk wrapped him round, and she remained crouching before the window, as at a shrine, a shadow.
-- The snow was in perfect condition, he had travelled a long way, by himself, among the snow ridges, on his skis, he had climbed high, so high that he could see over the top of the pass, five miles distant, could see the Marienh脙录tte, the hostel on the crest of the pass, half buried in snow, and over into the deep valley beyond, to the dusk of the pine trees.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 4 WHAT vain weathercocks we are!I, who had determined to hold myself independent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at length, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable I, weak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and solitude, was finally compelled to strike my colours; and under pretence of gaining information concerning the necessities of my establishment, I desired Mrs. Dean, when she brought in supper, to sit down while I ate it; hoping sincerely she would prove a regular gossip, and either rouse me to animation or lull me to sleep by her talk.
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