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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak began now to see light in this direction, and said to himself, "I'll make her my wife, or upon my soul I shall be good for nothing!"
-- He thoroughly cleaned his silver watch-chain with whiting, put new lacing straps to his boots, looked to the brass eyelet-holes, went to the inmost heart of the plantation for a new walking-stick, and trimmed it vigorously on his way back; took a new handkerchief from the bottom of his clothes-box, put on the light waistcoat patterned all over with sprigs of an elegant flower uniting the beauties of both rose and lily without the defects of either, and used all the hair-oil he possessed upon his usually dry, sandy, and inextricably curly hair, till he had deepened it to a splendidly novel colour, between that of guano and Roman cement, making it stick to his head like mace round a nutmeg, or wet seaweed round a boulder after the ebb.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the delightful excitement of a ball had made the pale face glow with color; if the delights of a luxurious life had brought the color to the wan cheeks that were slightly hollowed already; if love had put light into the sad eyes, then Victorine might have ranked among the fairest; but she lacked the two things which create woman a second time--pretty dresses and love-letters.
-- This laughing-stock was the retired vermicelli-merchant, Father Goriot, upon whose face a painter, like the historian, would have concentrated all the light in his picture.
-- Vauquer (not yet dressed) heard the rustle of a silk dress and a young woman's light footstep on the stair; some one was going to Goriot's room.
-- He was so lucky as to light upon some one who did not laugh at his ignorance, a fatal defect among the gilded and insolent youth of that period; the coterie of Maulincourts, Maximes de Trailles, de Marsays, Ronquerolles, Ajuda-Pintos, and Vandenesses who shone there in all the glory of coxcombry among the best-dressed women of fashion in Paris--Lady Brandon, the Duchesse de Langeais, the Comtesse de Kergarouet, Mme.
-- He opened his door noiselessly, went out upon the landing, and saw a thin streak of light under Father Goriot's door.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A new light seemed to dawn upon my mind, and bounding with joy, I communicated my discov-ery to my father.
-- As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
-- My application was at first fluctuating and uncertain; it gained strength as I proceeded and soon be-came so ardent and eager that the stars often disappeared in the light of morning whilst I was yet engaged in my labo-ratory.
-- I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of cau-sation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me a light so brilliant and wondrous, 51yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immen-sity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their in-quiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.
-- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An' nex' thing, huccome Ah din' bringy'all home ternight so she could lay you out An' den she'll light on me lak a duck on a June bug, an' fust thing Ahknow Ah'll be ter blame fer it all.
-- True, he never made love to her, nor did the clear gray eyes ever glow with that hot light Scarlett knew so well inother men.
-- As a child, she often had crept to the door and, peeping through the tiniest crack, had seen Ellen emerge fromthe dark room, where Gerald's snores were rhythmic and untroubled, into the flickering light of an upheld candle, hermedicine case under her arm, her hair smoothed neatly place, and no button on her basque unlooped.
-- And, for oncein his life, he was utterly humble when Ellen, very white but very calm, put a light hand on his arm and said: "I willmarry you, Mr.
-- Pork, tiptoeing, reached the ring in the chainand drew the lamp slowly down until the table top was brightly bathed in light and the ceiling receded into shadows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was never allowed a candle to light me to bed, and, as I went upstairs in the dark, with my head tingling,--from Mrs. Joe's thimble having played the tambourine upon it, to accompany her last words,--I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the hulks were handy for me.
-- There was no doing it in the night, for there was no getting a light by easy friction then; to have got one I must have struck it out of flint and steel, and have made a noise like the very pirate himself rattling his chains.
-- "When a man's alone on these flats, with a light head and a light stomach, perishing of cold and want, he hears nothin' all night, but guns firing, and voices calling.
-- By the light of the torches, we saw the black Hulk lying out a little way from the mud of the shore, like a wicked Noah's ark.
-- And he had better play there," said my sister, shaking her head at me as an encouragement to be extremely light and sportive, "or I'll work him."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he came to the next village, he saw a scissor-grinder with his wheel, working and singing, 'O'er hill and o'er dale So happy I roam, Work light and live well, All the world is my home; Then who so blythe, so merry as I?'
-- Hans took the stone, and went his way with a light heart: his eyes sparkled for joy, and he said to himself, 'Surely I must have been born in a lucky hour; everything I could want or wish for comes of itself.
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