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darkling

/dahrk-ling/US // ˈdɑrk lɪŋ //UK // (ˈdɑːklɪŋ) poetic //

黑暗,黑影,黑暗的,黑暗的人

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in the dark.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : growing dark.
    • : being or occurring in the dark; dark; obscure.
    • : vaguely threatening or menacing.

Examples

  • He entered his darkling, shabby old third-floor room and threw himself into the arm-chair before the fire to think.

  • Notwithstanding his darkling moods, he was in a subtle way singularly like Delia Vanuxem.

  • It should reach down into the ravine, where humid ferns and rocks met plants that love darkling ground.

  • Mr. Baker kept one of the darkling beetles (Blaps Mortisaga) alive under a glass upwards of three years.

  • Torches began to gleam by all the darkling ways, and the population poured forth in the excitement of a great event.