gloom是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 黑暗， 忧郁，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：
-- For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in an-other, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: be-ing now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away.
-- Down in the west the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest night.
-- When Tit came, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scat-ter gloom and mystery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man who had left his saw sticking in the firewood he was cutting, set it in motion again; the women who had left on a door-step the little pot of hot ashes, at which she had been trying to soften the pain in her own starved fingers and toes, or in those of her child, returned to it; men with bare arms, matted locks, and cadaverous faces, who had emerged into the winter light from cellars, moved away, to descend again; and a gloom gathered on the scene that appeared more nat-40 A tale of two citiesural to it than sunshine.
-- While one external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agony, would always as on the trial evoke this condition from the depths of his soul, it was also in its nature to arise of itself, and to draw a gloom over him, as incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille 110 A tale of two citiesthrown upon him by a summer sun, when the substance was three hundred miles away.
-- It is so cold, so dark, my senses are so benumbed, and the gloom upon me is so dreadful.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The square was rimmed with the gloom of mango trees, which shut out the faint-hearted breeze and cooped in the heat--stale lifeless heat, in whose misery the leering silence was the more dismaying.
-- IV When Martin left her at the Lodge, in the leafy gloom high on the Penrith Hills, Leora felt his absence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fell at once into a solitary condition,-apart from all friendly notice, apart from the society of all otherboys of my own age, apart from all companionship but my ownspiritless thoughts,- which seems to cast its gloom upon this paperas I write.
-- 'If any drop of gloom were wanting in the overflowing cup, whichis now "commended" (in the language of an immortal Writer) tothe lips of the undersigned, it would be found in the fact, that afriendly acceptance granted to the undersigned, by the before-mentioned Mr. Thomas Traddles, for the sum of L23, 4s./2d.
-- There was a dark gloom in my solitary chamber, when I at lengthreturned to it; but I was tired now, and, getting into bed again, fell-off a tower and down a precipice- into the depths of sleep.
-- 'I have no hesitation in saying,' said Mr. Chillip, fortifying himselfwith another sip of negus, 'between you and me, sir, that hermother died of it- or that tyranny, gloom, and worry have madeMrs. Murdstone nearly imbecile, She was a lively young woman,sir, before marriage, and their gloom and austerity destroyed her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To youth and natural cheerfulness like Emma's, though under temporary gloom at night, the return of day will hardly fail to bring return of spirits.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In feeling for each other's palm in the gloom before the money could be passed, a minute incident occurred which told much.
-- Joseph Poorgrass looked round upon his sad burden as it loomed faintly through the flowering laurustinus, then at the unfathomable gloom amid the high trees on each hand, indistinct, shadowless, and spectre-like in their monochrome of grey.
-- Gabriel, seeing that neither of the three was in a fit state to take charge of the waggon for the remainder of the journey, made no reply, but, closing the door again upon them, went across to where the vehicle stood, now getting indistinct in the fog and gloom of this mildewy time.
-- It was with gloom he considered on landing at Liverpool that if he were to go home his reception would be of a kind very unpleasant to contemplate; for what Troy had in the way of emotion was an occasional fitful sentiment which sometimes caused him as much inconvenience as emotion of a strong and healthy kind.
-- he whispered, and added imprecations which rustled in the gloom like a pestilent wind.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a general feeling of gloom and constraint.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I spoke, a dark gloom spread over my listener's countenance.
-- I felt also sentiments of joy and affection re-vive in my bosom; my gloom disappeared, and in a short time I became as cheerful as before I was attacked by the fatal passion.
-- As I said these words, I perceived in the gloom a figure which stole from behind a clump of trees near me; I stood fixed, gazing intently: I could not be mistaken.
-- If you feel thus, we shall assuredly be happy, however present events may cast a gloom over us.
-- But it is this gloom which appears to have taken so strong a hold of your mind that I wish to dissipate.
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