darken
vt. 弄暗, 使模糊 vi. 暗下来, 颜色变深
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释义与例句
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1.
To make dark or darker by reducing light.
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2.
To become dark or darker (having less light).
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3.
To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).
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To make dark or darker in colour.
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To become dark or darker in colour.
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To render gloomy, darker in mood.
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To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
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To be extinguished or deprived of vitality, to die.
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To become gloomy, darker in mood.
不及物1797, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, London: T. Cadell Jun[ior] and W. Davies, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 303, His countenance darkened while he spoke […]
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To blind, impair the eyesight.
及物1773, Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell dated 5 July, 1773, in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume I, London: Charles Dilly, p. 424, When your letter came to me, I was so darkened by an inflammation in my eye, that I could not for some time read it.
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To be blinded, lose one’s eyesight.
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To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
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From Middle English derkenen, dirkenen, from Old English *deorcnian, *diercnian (“to darken”), from Proto-West Germanic *dirkinōn (“to darken”), equivalent to dark + -en. Cognate with Scots derken, durken (“to darken”), Old High German tarchanjan, terchinen (“to darken”), Middle High German terken, derken (“to darken”).
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