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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was too far to see any details; it seemed to me then simply a low-lying patch of dim blue in the uncer- tain blue-grey sea.
-- All the time the strangeness of him was shaping itself in my mind; and as I talked I peered at his odd, pallid face in the dim light of the binnacle lantern behind me.
-- Then through an open doorway beyond, in the dim light of the shadow, I saw something bound painfully upon a framework, scarred, red, and bandaged; and then blotting this out appeared the face of old Moreau, white and terrible.
-- I started vio-Tlently, and saw close to me a dim pinkish thing, looking more like a flayed child than anything else in the world.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heyward took with him a blazing knot, which threw a dim light through the narrow vista of their new apartment.
-- I shouldn't like, myself, to spill more human blood in this spot,' he added, looking around with anxiety in his features, at the dim objects by which he was sur-rounded; 'but what must be, must!Lead the horses into the blockhouse, Uncas; and, friends, do you follow to the same shelter.
-- Heyward perceiving that, in fact, a crisis had arrived, when acts were more required than words, placed himself between the sisters, and drew them swiftly forward, keep-ing the dim figure of their leader in his eye.
-- The aged soldier examined it with eyes that grew dim as he gazed; nor did he rise from this stooping pos-ture until Heyward saw that he had watered the trace of his daughter's passage with a scalding tear.
-- No, no,' continued the scout, looking back at the dim shore of William Henry, which was now fast receding, and laughing in his own silent but heartfelt manner; 'I have put a trail of water atween us; and unless the imps can make friends with the fishes, and hear who has paddled across their basin this fine morning, we shall throw the length of the Horican behind us before they have made up their minds which path to take.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not only the bold simplification of the drawing which showed so rich and so singular a personality; it was not only the painting, though the flesh was painted with a passionate sensuality which had in it something miraculous; it was not only the solidity, so that you felt extraordinarily the weight of the body; there was also a spirituality, troubling and new, which led the imagination along unsuspected ways, and suggested dim empty spaces, lit only by the eternal stars, where the soul, all naked, adventured fearful to the discovery of new mysteries.
-- Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had gone singing through the dim rooms, and moving with gay and lightsome step among their dusty treasures, making them older by her young life, and sterner and more grim by her gay and cheerful presence.
-- The delight of the Nobility and Gentry and the patronised of Royalty had, by some process of self-abridgment known only to herself, got into her travelling bed, where she was snoring peacefully, while the large bonnet, carefully disposed upon the drum, was revealing its glories by the light of a dim lamp that swung from the roof.
-- The feeling which beset the child was one of dim uncertain horror.
-- In the parlour window of this little habitation, which is so close upon the footway that the passenger who takes the wall brushes the dim glass with his coat sleeve much to its improvement, for it is very dirty in this parlour window in the days of its occupation by Sampson Brass, there hung, all awry and slack, and discoloured by the sun, a curtain of faded green, so threadbare from long service as by no means to intercept the view of the little dark room, but rather to afford a favourable medium through which to observe it accurately.
-- The windows were latticed in little diamond panes, that seemed to wink and blink upon the passengers as if they were dim of sight.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day.
-- I had a dim impression of scaffolding, but I was already going too fast to be conscious of any moving things.
-- What strange developments of humanity, what wonderful advances upon our rudimentary civilisation, I thought, might not appear when I came to look nearly into the dim elusive world that raced and fluctuated before my eyes!I saw great and splendid architecture rising about me, more massive than any buildings of our own time, and yet, as it seemed, built of glimmer and mist.
-- I remember running violently in and out among the moonlit bushes all round the sphinx, and startling some white animal that, in the dim light, I took for a small deer.
-- It was that dim grey hour when things are just creeping out of darkness, when everything is colourless and clear cut, and yet unreal.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hatches of the saloon were open, and, as the beacon light of the Nautilus was not in action, a dim obscurity reigned in the midst of the waters.
-- Three miles to the south the dim outline of Pelusium was to be seen.
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