dreary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 沉闷的, 阴沉的，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：
-- CHAPTER IX A COUNTRY OF PARADOXESIT was the 23d of December, 1864, a dull, damp, dreary month in the northern hemisphere; but on the Australian continent it might be called June.
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：
-- The house is banked in with rolling clouds, which rise now and then to show the dreary curves of the moor, with thin, silver veins upon the sides of the hills, and the distant boulders gleaming where the light strikes upon their wet faces.
-- At every rise Holmes looked eagerly round him, but the shadows were thick upon the moor, and nothing moved upon its dreary face.
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：
-- 'Ha!that sheet of dull and dreary water, then, is the sep-ulcher of the brave men who fell in the contest.
-- 'Tis not probable that any are as houseless as ourselves in this dreary forest.'
-- Another groan more faint than the former was succeeded by a heavy and sullen plunge into the water, and all was still again as if the borders of the dreary pool had never been awakened from the silence of creation.
-- His eyes wandered from the bosom of the mound, where the forest-ers were seated around their glimmering fire, to the fainter light which still lingered in the skies, and then rested long and anxiously on the embodied gloom, which lay like a dreary void on that side of him where the dead reposed.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farm-house where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagina-tion, the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech owl, to the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One forlorn fragment of dollanity had belonged to Jo and, having led a tempestu-ous life, was left a wreck in the rag bag, from which dreary poorhouse it was rescued by Beth and taken to her refuge.
-- As she lifted the curtain to look out into the dreary night, the moon broke suddenly from be-hind the clouds and shone upon her like a bright, benignant face, which seemed to whisper in the silence,' Be comforted, dear soul!There is always light behind the clouds.'
-- It was past two, when Jo, who stood at the window think-ing how dreary the world looked in its winding sheet of snow, heard a movement by the bed, and turning quickly, saw Meg kneeling before their mother's easy chair with her face hidden.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver, So, wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towards the north with the darkness towards the south wherever in your wisdom you may conclude to lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire the price, and don't be too particular.
-- Such dreary streets!blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb.
-- But the hours of darkness passed in peace; the men who still remained at their duty toiling hard at the pumps, whose clinking and clanking at intervals through the dreary night dismally resounded through the ship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From all of these tokens Oliver concluded that a long time ago, before the old Jew was born, it had belonged to better people, and had perhaps been quite gay and handsome: dismal and dreary as it looked now.
-- Having prepared his mind, by solitude and gloom, to prefer any society to the companionship of his own sad thoughts in such a dreary place, he was now slowly instilling into his soul the poison which he hoped would blacken it, and change its hue for ever.
-- There was a faint glimmering of the coming day in the sky; but it rather aggravated than relieved the gloom of the scene: the sombre light only serving to pale that which the street lamps afforded, without shedding any warmer or brighter tints upon the wet house-tops, and dreary streets.
-- A damp mist rose from the river, and the marshy ground about; and spread itself over the dreary fields.
-- Cunning, ferocity, and drunkeness in all its stages, were there, in their strongest aspect; and women: some with the last lingering tinge of their early freshness almost fading as you looked: others with every mark and stamp of their sex utterly beaten out, and presenting but one loathsome blank of profligacy and crime; some mere girls, others but young women, and none past the prime of life; formed the darkest and saddest portion of this dreary picture.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, you have saved me a dreary evening," returned Hurstwood.
-- He called a cab and was driven through the dreary rain to the North Side.
-- She had had a dreary day of it herself.
-- Hurstwood's dreary state made its beauty become more and more vivid.
-- It was one of those lovely harbingers of spring, given as a sign in dreary winter that earth is not forsaken of warmth and beauty.
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