| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_with-little-or-no-light |
| 释义 | with little or no lightThese words describe things and especially places with no light or with very little light. The most common word for this is dark. Dark can be used to describe indoor spaces or the outdoors. When its used to describe the outdoors, it describes times when the sun is not visible or shining. She peered down the dark hallway. Gather your toys and bring them inside before it gets dark. The opposite of dark is light. Light is used when a place is lit by the natural brightness of the day. I don't like jogging when it's still dark - I'll go when it's light. If a place is darkened, it has been made dark so that there is no or very little light in that place. We arrived late and had to make our way to our seats in a darkened theatre. Dim is used to describe a place that has a little light, but usually not enough to see well. He sat in a dim corner of the waiting room. Brighten a dim hallway with these battery-powered lights. Shadowy is used to describe things that are dark and not able to be seen clearly, like a shadow, or places that are dark and full of shadows. Shadowy is often used with words like dim. I was afraid to walk down the dim, shadowy corridor. In the corner of the photograph was an eerie, shadowy blur. Places that are very dark can be called pitch black or pitch dark, or, in more literary language, inky. It was pitch black on our street after the power outage. She took a torch with her as she descended into the pitch dark cellar. He rode away into the inky night. They were the first to explore the vast, inky darkness of the ocean floor. If a place is dark in an unpleasant way, you can say it is gloomy or dingy. Dingy is used especially to refer to places that are dark and dirty or not maintained well. She had the draperies in the parlor closed, which made the room quite gloomy. Our hotel room was dingy. A moonless night is one that is very dark because the moon is not out and so is not giving off any light. We barely made our way back home on that dark and moonless night. In literary language, twilit is used to describe a place where it is getting darker because the sun is setting, but it is not yet night. She walked the twilit London streets. |
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