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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Glenarvan had taken care that the ill-success of their expedition should not throw a gloom over the pleasure of meeting, his very first words being:"Cheer up, friends, cheer up!Captain Grant is not with us, but we have a certainty of finding him!"
-- The heavy clouds, driving along toward the east, hung on the ground like rays of vapor, and deep, cheerless gloom intensified the horrors of the night.
-- They both started up and leaned over the railing, and peered into the gloom with questioning eyes.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our visitor readjusted his glasses and began: 'The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose name has been mentioned as the probable Liberal candi-date for Mid-Devon at the next election, has cast a gloom over the county.
-- The dark panelling glowed like bronze in the golden rays, and it was hard to realize that this was indeed the chamber which had struck such a gloom into our souls upon the evening before.
-- What it all means I cannot guess, but there is some secret business going on in this house of gloom which sooner or later we shall get to the bottom of.
-- Then he passed through the same door as before, and the light of the candle framed it in the darkness and shot one single yellow beam across the gloom of the corridor.
-- As if in answer to his words there rose suddenly out of the vast gloom of the moor that strange cry which I had al-ready heard upon the borders of the great Grimpen Mire.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was hysterical, and laughed aloud every other minute with no apparent reason the next mo-ment relapsing into gloom and thoughtfulness.
-- Yes, his malady was coming back, it was clear enough; all this gloom and heaviness, all these 'ideas,' were nothing more nor less than a fit coming on; per-haps he would have a fit this very day.
-- But just now all the gloom and darkness had fled, his heart felt full of joy and hope, there was no such thing as doubt.
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：
-- Glancing his eyes around, with a vain effort to pierce the gloom that was thickening beneath the leafy arches of the forest, he felt as if, cut off from human aid, his unresisting companions would soon lie at the entire mercy of those barbarous enemies, who, like beasts of prey, only waited till the gathering darkness might render their blows more fatally certain.
-- 'Here is nothing to be seen but the gloom and quiet of a lovely evening,' whispered Duncan; 'how much should we prize such a scene, and all this breathing solitude, at any other moment, Cora!Fancy yourselves in security, and what now, perhaps, increases your terror, may be made con-ducive to enjoyment ' 'Listen!'
-- The instant this was done they issued through the broken gateway, and stealing out by a direction opposite to the one by which they entered, they quitted the spot, the sisters casting furtive glances at the si-lent, grave and crumbling ruin, as they left the soft light of the moon, to bury themselves in the gloom of the woods.
-- Still the clear fountain retained a portion of its charmed influence, but it reflected only the somber gloom that fell from the impending heavens.
-- At length one whose hair was beginning to be sprinkled with gray, but whose sinewy limbs and firm tread an-nounced that he was still equal to the duties of manhood, advanced out of the gloom of a corner, whither he had prob-ably posted himself to make his observations unseen, and spoke.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolu-tionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
-- Over a deep black part of the stream, not far from the church, was formerly thrown a wooden bridge; the road that led to it, and the bridge it-self, were thickly shaded by overhanging trees, which cast a gloom about it, even in the daytime; but occasioned a fear-ful darkness at night.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that he was for ever inconsolable, that he fled from society, or contracted an habitual gloom of temper, or died of a broken heart, must not be depended on for he did neither.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Particularly if it be evening--that mystic period between the glare and gloom of the world when life is changing from one sphere or condition to another.
-- The helpless manager paced the floor and grimly endured the gloom of defeat.
-- The whole of this conversation was such a shock that, coming as it did after all the other worry of the past week, it sufficed to induce a deep gloom and moral revulsion in Hurstwood.
-- Constant comparison between his old state and his new showed a balance for the worse, which produced a constant state of gloom or, at least, depression.
-- Hurstwood's gloom over the slight decrease in profits and the departure of the Vances came together.
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