dark: [OE] Dark comes ultimately from a Germanic base *derk-, *dark-, which also produced Old High German tarchanjan ‘hide’ and Middle Low German dork ‘place where dirt collects’ (outside Germanic, Lithuanian dargus has been compared). In Old English the word usually denoted absence of light, particularly with reference to ‘night’; the application to colours did not develop until the 16th century.
dark (adj.)
Old English deorc "dark, obscure, gloomy; sad, cheerless; sinister, wicked," from Proto-Germanic *derkaz (cognates: Old High German tarchanjan "to hide, conceal"). "Absence of light" especially at night is the original meaning. Application to colors is 16c. Theater slang for "closed" is from 1916.
dark (n.)
early 13c., from dark (adj.). Figurative in the dark "ignorant" first recorded 1670s.
实用例句
1. In the dark my sense of hearing becomes so acute.
黑暗中我的听觉变得异常灵敏。
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2. I managed to keep my parents in the dark about this.
我设法对父母瞒下了此事。
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3. He stared into the dark void where the battle had been fought.
他凝望着那片漆黑的空旷之地，那次战役就是在这里进行的。
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4. I'm scared of the dark. I'm a big chicken.
我怕黑，是个十足的胆小鬼。
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5. Leo went on, his dark eyes wide with pity and concern.
