| 单词 | dark |
| 释义 | dark I. 1. a. < dark as night > also < the theater was totally dark > b. < a dark lampshade > < dark glasses > 2. a. < dark earth > < a dark-haired girl > < the dark robes of the clergy > specifically of color b. < a loaf of dark bread > or of white flour darkened with spices or other ingredients < dark fruitcake > 3. a. < the dark side of his character > < the dark powers that lead to war > b. < he's always looking at the dark side of things > < the dark days of the war > c. < the dark age of poetry among us is almost over — H.A.Overstreet > 4. a. of a celestial body, archaic b. < that makes much which was dark quite clear to me — John Galsworthy > 5. now dialect < what way would I see … and I a dark woman since the seventh year of my age — J.M.Synge > 6. a. of the human complexion < brick-red face grew darker — Kenneth Roberts > < nor had she lost her dark good looks — Irish Digest > b. < the dark races > 7. a. < he kept his plans dark > — see dark horse b. < an imagination that was dark and rich > c. < he was always quite dark about the matter > 8. a. of sound < a woman with a beautifully dark contralto > < everywhere the dark laughter of the Negro is to be heard — American Guide Series: Virginia > b. of an l sound c. of a vowel < \ȯ\ and \ü\ are dark > 9. of tobacco Synonyms: < it looked dark as pitch, so I gave him to understand that he must strike a light — Herman Melville > < telling me that they were waiting till it was dark to speak to him: that they did not dare to speak to him during the light — Anthony Trollope > dim suggests darkness enough to render outlines indistinct and shadowy < “Shall I light a taper?” “There is no need. I love this dim light of evening” — C.R.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > < the dim grassy bank amid the tossing trees purple with twilight — G.K.Chesterton > dusky and the uncommon dusk signify a twilight condition and suggest approaching darkness < but comes at last the dull and dusky eve — William Cowper > < during the short period of a total eclipse bright stars may appear in a dusky sky — R.M.Sutton > < the dusk heavens — John Keats > darkling may connote the mysterious, ominous, or uncanny < the darkling night, lit only as it was by the slender moon — H.G.Wells > < as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night — Matthew Arnold > obscure is likely to imply darkness and also concealment, covering, or overshadowing < it does not matter to real culture whether a book be lucid as transparent air, or sullenly obscure as pitch-black midnight — J.C.Powys > < a small room, obscure because it was heavily curtained — Arnold Bennett > Orig. connoting intense darkness, murky now often suggests a blanketing thickness or heaviness < London seemed last winter like an underground city; as if its low sky were the roof of a cave, and its murky day a light such as one reads of in countries beneath the earth — L.P.Smith > < a coarse, cheap, and offensive-smelling tobacco. The air was thick and murky with the smoke of it — Jack London > opaque, comparatively poor in suggestion, means impervious to light, opposed to transparent and translucent < opaque from rain drawn in slant streaks by wind and speed across the pane, the window of the railway carriage lets nothing be seen but stray flashes of red lights — Richard Jefferies > gloomy implies interference with free radiation of light and usually connotes a pervading cheerlesness < their gloomy pathway tended upward, so that, through a crevice, a little daylight glimmered down upon them, or even a streak of sunshine peeped into a burial niche — Nathaniel Hawthorne > Synonym: see in addition obscure. II. 1. < stumbling about in the dark > : a place where or the time when there is little or no light < the fugitives moved into the dark and waited > : night, nightfall < we'd better wait till dark — Zane Grey > 2. a. < though still early fall light clothes had given way to winter darks > b. < in water color the darkest tones can be darker than in fresco, but attempts to rival the darks of oil always looks forced — C.W.H.Johnson > 3. darks pl but singular or plural in construction • - in the dark III. intransitive verb 1. obsolete 2. dialect England transitive verb < the folk whose shadows darked the blinds — John Masefield > IV. archaic |
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