colorless是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 无色的,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sky was colorless above dirty snow.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Huge and dark clouds cast their grey shadows below--shadows which seemed to crush that colorless and sullen water by their weight.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The thick deep-gold lashes that set off the gray eyes of John Wilkes and Ashley weresparse and colorless in the faces of Honey and her sister India.
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