darken是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 变黑， 转暗，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：
-- About 11 P. M. the sky began to darken in the south, and the crew were called up, and all the sails hauled in, except the foresail, brigantine, top-sail, and jib-boom.
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：
-- The blinds were partly drawn to darken the room, and Mrs. Strickland was sitting with her back to the light.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 20CHAPTER III ObserveTHE first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as Ilook far back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with herpretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty, with no shape at all,and eyes so dark that they seemed to darken their wholeneighbourhood in her face, and cheeks and arms so hard and redthat I wondered the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This position is sufficient to account for the silence prevalent in the streets shut in between the dome of the Pantheon and the dome of the Val-de-Grace, two conspicuous public buildings which give a yellowish tone to the landscape and darken the whole district that lies beneath the shadow of their leaden-hued cupolas.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An impression of disappointment, occasioned by the discovery that Mr Clennam scarcely possessed that delicacy for which, in the confidence of his nature, he had been inclined to give him credit, began to darken the fatherly mind in connection with that gentleman.
-- And then to look at him, handsomely clothed in his fur and broadcloths, rich, free, numerously served and attended, his eyes roving far away among the glories of the landscape, no miserable screen before them to darken his sight and cast its shadow on him, was enough.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To darken it all, he saw the same indifference and independence growing in his wife, while he looked on and paid the bills.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards night it begun to darken up and look like rain; the heat lightning was squirting around low down in the sky, and the leaves was beginning to shiver it was going to be pretty ugly, it was easy to see that.
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