Dusky
['dʌskɪ] or ['dʌski]
解释:
(adj.) lighted by or as if by twilight; 'The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn'-Henry Fielding; 'the twilight glow of the sky'; 'a boat on a twilit river' .
整理:丽纳--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
(a.) Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
(a.) Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
(a.) Intellectually clouded.
格罗夫斯整理
同义词及近义词:
a. Obscure, murky, dim, shadowy, cloudy, shady, overcast, somewhat dark.
录入:温思罗普
例句:
- Even now the floor is dusky, and shadow slowly mounts the walls, bringing the Dedlocks down like age and death. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Here and there they were broken with streaks and patches of dusky red, green, and occasional areas of white quartz. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- As I lay on the lounge and my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, I fancied I could see a long, dusky, shapeless thing stretched upon the floor. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- He ascends the door-steps and is gliding into the dusky hall when he encounters, on the top step, a bowing and propitiatory little man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- A light dawned upon his dusky soul, as he thought, through a speech of Mrs. Bute's. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- A dusky blush rose to her cheek, and he instantly regretted his words. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The other, I replied, is that our dusky friend here does not hail from the nearer moon--he was like to have died at a few thousand feet above Barsoom. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- They went by her, and at the moment of passing appeared to discern her dusky form. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- In a low-arched and dusky passage, by which he endeavoured to work his way to the hall of the castle, he was interrupted by a female form. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- We past down the steep hill, and entered the dusky avenue of the Long Walk. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
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