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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The time seemed long; the guide ever and anon left them to take an observation on the edge of the wood, but the guards watched steadily by the glare of the torches, and a dim light crept through the windows of the pagoda.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The light had gone out abruptly, as though an agitated watcher were trying to hide from him.
-- The cone of light cast a gloss on the bright brass tube, a sheen on his black hair, as he bent over the eyepiece.
-- He was studying trypanosomes from a rat--an eight-branched rosette stained with polychrome methylene blue; a cluster of organisms delicate as a narcissus, with their purple nuclei, their light blue cells, and the thin lines of the flagella.
-- He adjusted the gas light a quarter inch, and mused, "Splendid!You have craftsmanship.
-- Her sulky blue uniform was gone; she was childishly slim and light in a princess frock that was a straight line from high collar and soft young breast to her feet.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the corner a light was burning before a small ikon.
-- But there was something very strange in him; there was a light in his eyes as though of intense feeling perhaps there were even thought and intel-ligence, but at the same time there was a gleam of something like madness.
-- And that consumptive and excited face with the last flickering light of the candle-end playing upon it made a sickening impression.
-- She had on a dress of some light silky ma-terial, but put on strangely awry, not properly hooked up, and torn open at the top of the skirt, close to the waist: a great piece was rent and hanging loose.
-- Mean-while it got dark; he had no candle and, indeed, it did not occur to him to light up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 790A Light Shines on My WayCHAPTER LXIII .
-- My father's eyes had closedupon the light of this world six months, when mine opened on it.
-- My mother was somuch worse that Peggotty, coming in with the tea-board andcandles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was,- as Miss Betseymight have done sooner if there had been light enough,conveyedher upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately des-patched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some dayspast secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a specialmessenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
-- That, marching him constantly up and down by the collar(as if he had been taking too much laudanum), she, at those times,shook him, rumpled his hair, made light of his linen, stopped hisears as if she confounded them with her own, and otherwisetouzled and maltreated him.
-- I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but BetseyTrotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams andshadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled;and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the 19earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above theashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had neverbeen.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was short, 26 Emmaplump, and fair, with a fine bloom, blue eyes, light hair, reg-ular features, and a look of great sweetness, and, before the end of the evening, Emma was as much pleased with her manners as her person, and quite determined to continue the acquaintance.
-- In no other light could you have been more to me than a common acquaintance.
-- It was adventuring too far, assuming too much, making light of what ought to be serious, a trick of what ought to be simple.
-- How-ever, when I read on, I found it was not near so bad as I had fancied at first; and I make so light of it now to her, that she does not think much about it.
-- And now I can see it in no other light than as an offering of love.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rectangular space of light appeared in the side of the hut, and in the opening the outline of Farmer Oak's figure.
-- He carried a lantern in his hand, and closing the door behind him, came forward and busied himself about this nook of the field for nearly twenty minutes, the lantern light appearing and disappearing here and there, and brightening him or darkening him as he stood before or behind it.
-- They placed the calf beside its mother again, took up the lantern, and went out, the light sinking down the hill till it was no more than a nebula.
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