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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his trou-bles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.
-- Finding everything still, he marched into the kitchen, and groped about till he found a match in order to light a candle; and then, espying the glittering fi-ery eyes of the cat, he mistook them for live coals, and held the match to them to light it.
-- As soon as it was light he jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went out of the house.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes.
-- His dress was very plain and simple, and the fashion of it between the Asiatic and the European; but he had on his head a light helmet of gold, adorned with jewels, and a plume on the crest.
-- My fall was stopped by a terrible squash, that sounded louder to my ears than the cataract of Niagara; after which, I was quite in the dark for another minute, and then my box began to rise so high, that I could see light from the tops of the windows.
-- Their apprehensions arise from several changes they dread in the celestial bodies: for instance, that the earth, by the continual approaches of the sun towards it, must, in course of time, be absorbed, or swallowed up; that the face of the sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own efflu-via, and give no more light to the world; that the earth very 205narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; and that the next, which they have calculated for one-and-thirty years hence, will probably destroy us.
-- For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bitzer, after rapidly blinking at Thomas Gradgrind with both eyes at once, and so catching the light upon his quivering ends of lashes that they looked like the antenn脙娄 of busy insects, put his knuckles to his freckled forehead, and sat down again.
-- There was an air of jaded sullenness in them both, and particularly in the girl: yet, struggling through the dissatisfaction of her face, there was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression.
-- Mrs. Gradgrind, weakly smiling, and giving no other sign of vitality, looked (as she always did) like an indifferently executed transparency of a small female figure, without enough light behind it.
-- That exactly in the ratio as they worked long and monotonously, the craving grew within them for some physical relief some relaxation, encouraging good humour and good spirits, and giving them a vent some recognized holiday, though it were but for an honest dance to a stirring band of music some occasional light pie in which even M'Choakumchild had no finger which craving must and would be satisfied aright, or must and would inevitably go wrong, until the laws of the Creation were repealed?
-- As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To my right were glaciers upon glaciers, and multiplied peaks, topped with light clouds of smoke.
-- My uncle, turning in a westerly direction, pointed out to me a light cloud of vapor, a kind of haze, with a faint outline of land rising out of the waters.
-- It was not even now quite dark, the light filtering down in a most extraordinary manner.
-- The thousand and one prisms of the lava collected the light as it passed and brought it to us like a shower of sparks.
-- And a bright light at once illumined that dark and gloomy tunnel!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes he was handsome: sometimes as he looked sideways, down-wards, and the light fell on him, he had the silent, enduring beauty of a carved ivory Negro mask, with his rather full eyes, and the strong queerly-arched brows, the immobile, compressed mouth; that momentary but revealed immobil-ity, an immobility, a timelessness which the Buddha aims at, and which Negroes express sometimes without ever aim-ing at it; something old, old, and acquiescent in the race!
-- Clifford sat in the pale sun, with the light on his smooth, rather blond hair, his reddish full face inscrutable.
-- The light of battle glowed in Hilda's face; she was a wom-an, soft and still as she seemed, of the old amazon sort, not made to fit with men.
-- 'Am Ah t' light yer a little fire?'
-- It had no window, the light came in through the open door.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards the distant line of Italian coast, indeed, it was a little relieved by light clouds of mist, slowly rising from the evaporation of the sea, but it softened nowhere else.
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