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单词 heart of darkness
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heart of darkness
heart of darkness n. the inner core of spiritual or moral darkness; the depths of human wickedness or immorality; (also) a place regarded as embodying or representing this.In later use frequently with allusion to Joseph Conrad's novella of the same name (see quot. 1902).
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1883 Pulpit Treasury May 14 His very Advent would be made..an occasion to [reject]..all goodness, right, beauty, and truth... It was a plunge out of supernal light into the heart of darkness.
1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness iii, in Youth 165 The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down toward the sea.
1929 W. M. Urban Intelligible World 288 The root of this entire complex of errors..strikes deep down into the very heart of thinking, of both logic and reality—into the ‘heart of darkness’ of an atavistic animism.
1981 Billboard 14 Nov. 29 (advt.) Apocalypse Now..revealed through the peculiar madness of the Vietnam war a stunning vision of man's heart of darkness.
1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. 1 In that Arcadia he had found the heart of darkness, a new outburst of the slave trade.
2008 Australian (Nexis) 2 Apr. 24 You don't have to travel up the Congo in a boat..to..encounter the heart of darkness. You can find it in any number of places in the city and the suburbs.
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