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darken

/ˈdɑɹkən/ 动词 B2

中文: 变暗、使变暗、加深

  1. To make dark or darker by reducing light. (transitive)
  2. To become dark or darker (having less light). (intransitive)
  3. To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).
  4. To make dark or darker in colour. (transitive)
  5. To become dark or darker in colour. (intransitive)
  6. To render gloomy, darker in mood. (transitive)
  7. To become gloomy, darker in mood. (intransitive)
  8. To blind, impair the eyesight. (transitive)

复数 darken · He/she/it darkens · 过去式 darkened · 过去分词 darkened · -ing形式 darkening

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动词形式

原形
darken
He/she/it
darkens
过去式
darkened
过去分词
darkened
-ing形式
darkening

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Before daybreak he would awake, leave the inn after rigorously paying his bill, and reaching the forest, he would, under pretence of making studies in painting, test the hospitality of some peasants, procure himself the dress of a woodcutter and a hatchet, casting off the lion’s skin to assume that of the woodman; then, with his hands covered with dirt, his hair darkened by means of a leaden comb, his complexion embrowned with a preparation for which one of his old comrades had given him the recipe, he intended, by following the wooded districts, to reach the nearest frontier, walking by night and sleeping in the day in the forests and quarries, and only entering inhabited regions to buy a loaf from time to time.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第980页 · C1
In the doorway of a darkened hardware store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth.
《Six stories from The Four Million》,第21页 · C1
It can’t be denied your hair is terrible red; but I knew a girl once--went to school with her, in fact--whose hair was every mite as red as yours when she was young, but when she grew up it darkened to a real handsome auburn.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第76页 · C1
But then, alas, shadows began to darken over their path.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第205页 · C1

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