dim是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 暗的, 看不清楚的, 迟钝的; v. 变模糊, 变暗淡，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Liddy looked from a back window into the courtyard behind, which was now getting low-toned and dim with the earliest films of night.
-- Full of this dim and temperate bliss, he went on to fling the ewe over upon her other side, covering her head with his knee, gradually running the shears line after line round her dewlap; thence about her flank and back, and finishing over the tail.
-- She saw a dim spot of artificial red moving round the shoulder of the rise.
-- "I seed our mis'ess go into a sort of a park place, where there's seats, and shrubs and flowers, arm-in-crook with a sojer," continued Cainy, firmly, and with a dim sense that his words were very effective as regarded Gabriel's emotions.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Exceedingly," answered Eugene, flushing, and disconcerted by a dim suspicion that he had somehow been guilty of a clumsy piece of folly.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became con-vulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch the miserable monster whom I had created.
-- The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw ob-scurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.
-- A tear seemed to dim her eye when she saw us, but she quickly recovered herself, and a look of sorrowful affection seemed to attest her utter guiltlessness.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Near the house, Scarlett was at the point of speaking again when she saw her mother in the dim shadows of theporch.
-- The kneeling figures, the soft glow of the lamp, the dim shadows where the negroes swayed, even thefamiliar objects that had been so hateful to her sight an hour ago, in an instant took on the color of her own emotions,and the room seemed once more a lovely place.
-- Before this new emotion, Honey receded into a dim haze.
-- The dim room with toweringwalls completely filled with dark books depressed her.
-- There was a tenseness about her, a glow in her eyes that he had neverseen before, and even in the dim light he could see the rosy flush on her cheeks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally, I went out into the air, with a dim perception that there was something unwonted in the conduct of the sunshine, and found that I had slumberously got to the turnpike without having taken any account of the road.
-- As my eyes followed her white hand, again the same dim suggestion that I could not possibly grasp crossed me.
-- It was like my own marsh country, flat and monotonous, and with a dim horizon; while the winding river turned and turned, and the great floating buoys upon it turned and turned, and everything else seemed stranded and still.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Han-sel, however, stretched out a little bone to her, and the old woman, who had dim eyes, could not see it, and thought it was Hansel's finger, and was astonished that there was no way of fattening him.
-- But when they had broken open the door they found no one within; and as they came back into the house, Ashputtel was lying, 204 Grimms' Fairy Talesas she always did, in her dirty frock by the ashes, and her dim little lamp was burning in the chimney.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She stopped, at twilight, at the door of a mean little public-house, with dim red lights in it.
-- Seen across the dim candle with his moistened eyes, she looked as if she had a glory shining round her head.
-- The hand soon stopped in the midst of them; the light that had always been feeble and dim behind the weak transparency, went out; and even Mrs. Gradgrind, emerged from the shadow in which man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain, took upon her the dread solemnity of the sages and patriarchs.
-- There was one dim unformed fear lingering about his sister's mind, to which she never gave utterance, which surrounded the graceless and ungrateful boy with a dreadful mystery.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then gazing through the dim light that remained, I thought I saw the Icelander taking his departure, lamp in hand.
-- A dim obscurity prevailed.
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