dense是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 浓密的, 密集的, 愚笨的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrow-est, the houses opposite were mere phantoms.
-- 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.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was dense enough to shut out everything from the light of the coach-lamps but these its own workings, and a few yards of road; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Selenites* disputed variously about our earth, and expressed their doubts if it could be inhabited: the air, they said, must certainly be too dense to allow any rational dweller in the moon the nec-essary free respiration.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Parsee perched himself on the elephant's neck, and at nine o'clock they set out from the village, the animal marching off through the dense forest of palms by the shortest cut.
-- Copses of dates and dwarf-palms succeeded the dense forests; then vast, dry plains, dotted with scanty shrubs, and sown with great blocks of syenite.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that corner there was 226 Crime and Punishmenta dense crowd of peasants.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They reached the bottom of the town, and the Casterbridge lamps lay before them like fallen Pleiads as they turned to the left into the dense shade of a deserted avenue of chestnuts, and so skirted the borough.
-- The air was yet thick with moisture, though somewhat less dense than during the afternoon, and a steady smack of drops upon the fallen leaves under the boughs was almost musical in its soothing regularity.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next morning Paris was wrapped in one of the dense fogs that throw the most punctual people out in their calculations as to the time; even the most business-like folk fail to keep their appointments in such weather, and ordinary mortals wake up at noon and fancy it is eight o'clock.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old oaks, which had seen Indians pass under their limbs, hugged the house closely with theirgreat trunks and towered their branches over the roof in dense shade.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
-- The man could not be more particular as to the time at which he saw her (he got into dense confusion when he tried to be), than that it must have been before nine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here she was now, in her elderly days, with the Coriolanian style of nose and the dense black eyebrows which had captivated Sparsit, making Mr. Bounderby's tea as he took his breakfast.
-- M'Choakumchild reported that she had a very dense head for figures; that, once possessed with a general idea of the globe, she took the smallest conceivable interest in its exact measurements; that she was extremely slow in the acquisition of dates, unless some pitiful incident happened to be connected therewith; that she would burst into tears on being required (by the mental process) immediately to name the cost of two hundred and forty-seven muslin caps at fourteen-pence halfpenny; that she was as low down, in the school, as low could be; that after eight weeks of induction into the elements of Political Economy, she had only yesterday been set right by a prattler three feet high, for returning to the question, 'What is the first principle of this science?'
-- A blur of soot and smoke, now confusedly tending this way, now that way, now aspiring to the vault of Heaven, now murkily creeping along the earth, as the wind rose and fell, or changed its quarter: a dense formless jumble, with sheets of cross light in it, that showed nothing but masses of darkness: Coketown in the distance was suggestive of itself, though not a brick of it could be seen.
-- Not until the light porter announced that her nocturnal sweetbread was ready, did Mrs. Sparsit arouse herself from her reverie, and convey her dense black eyebrows by that time creased with meditation, as if they needed ironing out-up-stairs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dense mass of plants being beneath the waters, soon formed themselves into vast agglomerations.
-- The darkness, dense and opaque a few yards in advance and in the rear, rendered it impossible to make out what was the length of the gallery.
-- "I should fancy almost that I should experience a certain amount of satisfaction in making a plunge into this dense atmosphere.
-- Every now and then I paused to discover if any loud appeal was made to me, well knowing that in that dense and intensified atmosphere I should hear it a long way off.
-- I should originally have supposed that, under such an atmospheric pressure as must exist in that place, the evaporation of water could not really take place, and yet from the action of some physical law, which escaped my memory, there were heavy and dense clouds rolling along that mighty vault, partially concealing the roof.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Constance didn't like this dense new part of the wood; it seemed gruesome and choking.
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