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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could see right down it to the elbow, and there was a glimmer of light shining through a tear of the cloth.
-- There was a faint shimmer of light in the hall, but the study doorway yawned impenetrably black.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the time the strangeness of him was shaping itself in my mind; and as I talked I peered at his odd, pallid face in the dim light of the binnacle lantern behind me.
-- The only light near us was a lantern at the wheel.
-- Its light struck a ghostly white beam across my cabin, and made an ominous shape on the plank-ing by my bunk.
-- said he, stupidly; and then with a light coming into his eyes, 'Why, it's Mister Mister?'
-- Some way out, the wash upon an irregular band of reef shone with a pallid light of its own.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at Mowgli as the boy stood all naked, his long black hair tossing over his shoulders in the light of the blazing branch that made the shadows jump and quiver.
-- The cloud hid the moon, and as Mow-gli wondered what would come next he heard Bagheera's light feet on the terrace.
-- Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.
-- 'Is there yet light enough to see?'
-- Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines, That rocket by where, light and high, the wild grape swings.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length the sun set in a flood of glory, behind the distant western hills, and as dark-ness drew its veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminished; the last light finally disappeared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deep-er shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, and a silence soon pervaded the camp, as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed.
-- The scouts departed; strong guards preceded and followed the lumbering vehicles that bore the baggage; and before the gray light of the morning was mellowed by the rays of the sun, the main body of the combatants wheeled into column, and left the encampment with a show of high military bearing, that served to drown the slumber-ing apprehensions of many a novice, who was now about to make his first essay in arms.
-- A gleam of exultation shot across the darkly-painted lineaments of the inhabitant of the forest, as he traced the route of his intended victims, who rode unconsciously onward, the light and graceful forms of the females waving among the trees, in the cur-vatures of their path, followed at each bend by the manly figure of Heyward, until, finally, the shapeless person of the singing master was concealed behind the numberless trunks of trees, that rose, in dark lines, in the intermedi-ate space.
-- For many minutes the struggle between the light bubble in which they floated and the swift current was severe and doubtful.
-- Smoth-ered voices were next heard, as though men called to each other in the bowels of the earth, when a sudden light flashed upon those without, and laid bare the much-prized secret of the place.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
-- There was the honest cockrobin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds, and the golden- winged woodpecker with his crimson crest, his broad black gor-get, and splendid plumage; and the cedar-bird, with its red tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white underclothes, screaming and chat-tering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.
-- This story was immediately matched by a thrice mar-vellous adventure of Brom Bones, who made light of the Galloping Hessian as an arrant jockey.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I find myself in a position to throw light on just that part of his tragic career which has remained most obscure.
-- I imagine that a pickpocket, proud of his light fingers, must feel a sort of indignation with the careless woman who leaves in a cab a vanity-bag with all her jewels in it.
-- I dimly perceived a bed in the corner, and I wondered whether the light would disclose lying on it a dead body.
-- While the light lasted and so long as Blanche's strength endured, I suppose that Strickland painted, and it must have irritated her when she saw him absorbed in his work.
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