核心畫面
You can hold dark as one picture: a place where little or no light reaches — a room at night, the sky after the sun is gone. Everything else is that same lack of light moved onto other things: a colour with little light in it, hair near the black end, a secret no light has touched, an evil or hopeless thing where no brightness gets in.
可以把 dark 握成一個畫面：光照不太進來的地方——夜裡的房間、太陽下山後的天空。其餘所有意思都是這同一份「缺光」…更多收起
可以把 dark 握成一個畫面：光照不太進來的地方——夜裡的房間、太陽下山後的天空。其餘所有意思都是這同一份「缺光」搬到別的東西上：含光少的顏色、靠近黑那端的頭髮、一個沒被光照過的祕密、一件透不進一點亮光的邪惡或絕望的事。原始詞典資料22 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Darkname
- 1
A surname.
darkadj詞源 1/dɑːk/
- 1
Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- The room was too dark for reading.
- It was a dark and stormy night, the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets […]
- 2
Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
- 3
Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.
- 4
Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
- 5
Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- My sister’s hair is darker than mine.
- Her skin grew dark with a suntan.
- 6
Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
- What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
- What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
- 7
Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
- The dark side of the moon.
- dark money
- 8
gamblinggamesMarked by or conducted with secrecy.
- The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless [Duke of] St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
- a dark villain
- a dark deed
- 10
Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- The Great Depression was a dark time.
- The film was a dark psychological thriller.
- 11
Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- The dark ages began after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
- The Greek Dark Ages began after the Bronze Age collapse.
- 12
Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
- September 11, 2001, the day when four terrorist attacks destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, is often referred to as America’s dark day.
- 13
With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- The ending of this book is rather dark.
- This show is full of dark humor.
- 14
broadcastingmediaOff the air; not transmitting.
darknoun詞源 2/dɑːk/
- 1
A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- Dark surrounds us completely.
- Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out.
- 2
Ignorance.
- We kept him in the dark.
- The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
- 3
Nightfall.
- It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
- 4
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
- The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights.
darkverb詞源 3/dɑːk/
- 1
To grow or become dark, darken.
- 2
To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
- To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
- 3
To make dark, darken; to obscure.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。