Dusky
['dʌskɪ] or ['dʌski]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Obscure, murky, dim, shadowy, cloudy, shady, overcast, somewhat dark.
錄入:温思罗普
例句/造句/用法:
- Even now the floor is dusky, and shadow slowly mounts the walls, bringing the Dedlocks down like age and death. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Here and there they were broken with streaks and patches of dusky red, green, and occasional areas of white quartz. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- 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. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A light dawned upon his dusky soul, as he thought, through a speech of Mrs. Bute's. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A dusky blush rose to her cheek, and he instantly regretted his words. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- 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. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- They went by her, and at the moment of passing appeared to discern her dusky form. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- 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. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- We past down the steep hill, and entered the dusky avenue of the Long Walk. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
編輯:罗德里克