daylight是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 日光, 白昼, 黎明,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《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But during these earlier days of my stay they broke the Law only furtively and after dark; in the daylight there was a general atmosphere of respect for its multifarious pro-hibitions.
-- Insensibly the daylight crept upon me.
-- At first I spent the daylight hours on the southward beach watching for a ship, hoping and praying for a ship.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By daylight Kotick's mane was standing on end and his temper was gone where the dead crabs go.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phan-toms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambula-tions, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, just as Mr Quilp laid his hand upon the lock, and saw with great astonishment that the fastenings were undone, the knocking came again with the most irritating violence, and the daylight which had been shining through the key-hole was intercepted on the outside by a human eye.
-- CHAPTER 40Full of that vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning, Kit turned out at sunrise, and, with his faith in last night's enjoyments a little shaken by cool daylight and the return to every-day duties and occupations, went to meet Barbara and her mother at the appointed place.
-- The short daylight of winter soon faded away, and it was dark again when they had yet many miles to travel.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, reasoning from their daylight behaviour, I thought that fear must be forgotten.
-- A pair of eyes, luminous by reflection against the daylight without, was watching me out of the darkness.
-- And withal I was absolutely afraid to go!As I hesitated, two of the beautiful upperworld people came running in their amorous sport across the daylight in the shadow.
-- What so natural, then, as to assume that it was in this artificial Underworld that such work as was necessary to the comfort of the daylight race was done?
-- "At first, proceeding from the problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer was the key to the whole position.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As the last rays of daylight dwindled and disappeared, absolute blackness settled down on Treasure Island.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Suddenly there was daylight in the saloon, the iron panels closed again, and the enchanting vision disappeared.
-- Two months earlier we should have had perpetual daylight in these latitudes; but already we had had three or four hours of night, and by and by there would be six months of darkness in these circumpolar regions.
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