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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dim light of the stars was all that illumined the plain.
-- The clouds now covered it entirely; only a dim streak of light shone faintly in the west.
-- On returning to the bottom of the tree, they found themselves, to their great surprise, in a sort of dim twilight, produced by myriads of luminous specks which appeared buzzing confusedly over the surface of the water.
-- Dim outlines of hills and mountains rose behind one another; but Glenarvan only thought how best to get lost among them.
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：
-- Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the dis-tance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.
-- Then we gazed round us at the high, thin window of old stained glass, the oak panelling, the stags' heads, the coats-of-arms upon the walls, all dim and sombre in the subdued light of the central lamp.
-- A dim line of ancestors, in every variety of dress, from the Elizabethan knight to the buck of the Regency, stared down upon us and daunted us by their silent company.
-- It was all dim and vague, but always there is the dark shadow of crime behind it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They saw in the dim light the headless figure facing them, with a gnawed crust of bread in one gloved hand and a chunk of cheese in the other.
-- said Jaffers, brought up short by a dim realization of the incongruity of the whole business, "Darn it!Can't use 'em as I can see."
-- "It was night outside long before the business was over, and nothing was to be seen but the dim eyes and the claws.
-- I looked down and saw at once the dim suggestion of their outline sketched in splashes of mud.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's a dim half-memory of be-ing lifted up to the gangway, and of a big red countenance covered with freckles and surrounded with red hair staring at me over the bulwarks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dim light shone at intervals from some bed-room window; and the hoarse barking of dogs occasionally broke the silence of the night.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I was cutting down some wood here, I perceived that, behind a very thick branch of low brushwood or underwood, there was a kind of hollow place: I was curi-ous to look in it; and getting with difficulty into the mouth of it, I found it was pretty large, that is to say, sufficient for me to stand upright in it, and perhaps another with me: but I must confess to you that I made more haste out than I did in, when looking farther into the place, and which was per-fectly dark, I saw two broad shining eyes of some creature, whether devil or man I knew not, which twinkled like two stars; the dim light from the cave's mouth shining directly in, and making the reflection.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The purse, the shiny tan shoes, the smart new suit, and the air with which he did things, built up for her a dim world of fortune, of which he was the centre.
-- Things would go on, though, in a dim kind of way until the better thing would eventuate, and Carrie would be rewarded for coming and toiling in the city.
-- She realised in a dim way how much the city held--wealth, fashion, ease--every adornment for women, and she longed for dress and beauty with a whole heart.
-- In a dim way, she was beginning to see where he lacked.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would get so dark that it looked all blue-black outside, and lovely; and the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider- webby; and here would come a blast of wind that would bend the trees down and turn up the pale under- side of the leaves; and then a perfect ripper of a gust would fol-low along and set the branches to tossing their arms as if they was just wild; and next, when it was just about the blu-est and blackest FST!it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of tree- tops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of yards further than you could see before; dark as sin again in a second, and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash, and then go rum- bling, grumbling, tumbling, down the sky towards the under side of the world, like rolling empty barrels down stairs where it's long stairs and they bounce a good deal, you know.
-- Then in there I see a man stretched on the floor and tied hand and foot, and two men standing over him, and one of them had a dim lantern in his hand, and the other one had a pistol.
-- Well, before long here comes the wreck, dim and dusky, sliding along down!A kind of cold shiver went through me, and then I struck out for her.
-- Next, for about a half an hour, I whoops now and then; at last I hears the answer a long ways off, and tries to follow it, but I couldn't do it, and directly I judged I'd got into a nest of towheads, for I had little dim glimpses of them on both sides of me sometimes just a narrow channel between, and some that I couldn't see I knowed was there because I'd hear the wash of the current against the old dead brush and trash that hung over the banks.
-- First I didn't know where I was; I thought I was dreaming; and when things began to come back to me they seemed to come up dim out of last week.
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