light是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 明亮的, 轻的, 不重要的 n. 光, 光线, 光源，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already it had not been light all day and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.
-- It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
-- Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode!Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!'
-- 'That is no light part of my penance,' pursued the Ghost.
-- Light flashed up in the room upon the instant, and the curtains of his bed were drawn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was dense enough to shut out everything from the light of the coach-lamps but these its own workings, and a few yards of road; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all.
-- He opened it in the light of the coach-lamp on that side, and read first to himself and then aloud: 'Wait at Dover for Mam'selle.'
-- For he was furnished with that completeness that if the 13coach-lamps had been blown and stormed out, which did occasionally happen, he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
-- It was ap-pointed that the water should be locked in an eternal frost, when the light was playing on its surface, and I stood in ignorance on the shore.
-- Yet even when his eyes were opened on the mist and rain, on the moving patch of light from the lamps, and the 19hedge at the roadside retreating by jerks, the night shad-ows outside the coach would fall into the train of the night shadows within.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Andersen's Fairy Tales And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, saying, 'Here are your Majesty's trousers!Here is the scarf!Here is the mantle!The whole suit is as light as a cobweb; one might fancy one has nothing at all on, when dressed in it; that, however, is the great virtue of this delicate cloth.'
-- At the next corner hung a votive lamp before a Madonna, but the light it gave was little better than none at all; indeed, he did not observe it before he was ex-actly under it, and his eyes fell upon the bright colors of the pictures which represented the well-known group of the Virgin and the infant Jesus.
-- Suddenly was heard the sound of drums and fifes; the bright blaze of a fire shot up from time to time, and its ruddy gleams seemed to contend with the bluish light of the torch-es.
-- Oh!oh!I am certainly very ill.' He now hit upon a half-open door, through a chink of which a faint light shone.
-- Yes; 'tis East Street!How splendid and light it is!But really it is terrible what an effect that one glass of punch must have had on me!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco.
-- He read, too, that Count Beist was rumored to have left for Wiesbaden, and that one need have no more gray hair, and of the sale of a light carriage, and of a young person seeking a situation; but these items of information did not give him, as usual, a quiet, ironical gratification.
-- She was the smile that shed light on all round her.
-- responded Levin, his eyes like deep wells of light fixed on Stepan Arkadyevitch.
-- All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The artistic thing is, to unmask honest countenances; it's no light task, I admit, but a real art."
-- Her head and neck, shoulders, ears, arms, hands, and toes were loaded down with jewels and gems with bracelets, earrings, and rings; while a tunic bordered with gold, and covered with a light muslin robe, betrayed the outline of her form.
-- "And the sacrifice will take place ""To-morrow, at the first light of dawn."
-- The Parsee, leading the others, noiselessly crept through the wood, and in ten minutes they found themselves on the banks of a small stream, whence, by the light of the rosin torches, they perceived a pyre of wood, on the top of which lay the embalmed body of the rajah, which was to be burned with his wife.
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