小編在一個非常小資的自助餐火鍋餐廳吃飯，突然看見牆角的一個很雅緻的挂闆上寫着：My fancies are fireflies,-specks of living light twinkling in the dark.

我想了想，應該是：我的思念是螢火蟲，——在黑暗中閃爍着生命之光。

今天來學習：in the dark這個熱門詞彙，本意是“在黑暗中、在黑夜、暗處”，延伸意思為“一無所知、毫不知情、被隐瞞的、被蒙在鼓裡、兩眼一抹黑、盲目的、輕易的、未普及的、丈二和尚摸不着頭腦”還是通過經典例句來學習吧：

A：

I had to feel about in the dark for the light switch.

我得在黑暗中摸索尋找電燈開關。

I'm frightened of walking home alone in the dark.

我害怕在黑夜單獨走路回家。

It took a few moments for her eyes to focus in the dark.

過了好幾分鐘她的眼睛才适應了黑暗。

She groped blindly for the light switch in the dark room.

她在黑暗的房間裡摸索電燈開關。

We were stumbling around in the dark looking for a candle.

黑暗中，我們東跌西撞地找蠟燭。

He groped his way up the staircase in the dark.

他摸黑走上樓梯。

I stumbled along in the dark, trusting to luck to find the right door.

我摸黑跌跌撞撞地往前走，全憑運氣去找對門。

Ghostly shapes moved around in the dark.

有幾個鬼一樣的影子在黑暗中遊蕩。

The strap has a fluorescent coating that glows in the dark.

皮帶面上有一層熒光在黑暗中微微發光。

She crouched in the dark, too frightened to reveal herself.

她蜷縮在黑暗中，吓得不敢露面。

Her eyes gleamed in the dark.

她的眼睛在黑暗中閃爍。

以上11例摘自《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》

In the dark my sense of hearing becomes so acute.

黑暗中我的聽覺變得異常靈敏。

Her mother was sitting in the dark by the stove in her rocking chair

她母親坐在爐邊暗處的搖椅裡。

Carmen stayed behind in the dark, sunless room.

卡門留在那個黑漆漆不見陽光的屋子裡。

Camp fires flared like beacons in the dark.

營火突然熊熊燃燒起來，看上去就像黑暗中的航标燈。

以上4例摘自《柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典》

I made out two dim shapes in the dark.

我在黑暗中隐約看出兩個模糊的影子。

He fell into the ditch in the dark.

黑暗中他掉進了溝裡。

Stars are twinkling in the dark sky.

星星在黑暗的夜空中閃爍着。

以上3例摘自《外研社英語同義詞辨析詞典》

B

Workers were kept in the dark about the plans to sell the company.

工人全然不知出售公司的計劃。

The figure he came up with was really just a shot in the dark.

他得出的數字實際上隻是瞎猜而已。

Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company.

早在計算機尚未普及的時代，他們就創辦了軟件公司。

以上3例句摘自《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》

I'm as much in the dark as you.

我和你一樣毫不知情。

I managed to keep my parents in the dark about this

我設法對父母瞞下了此事。

Prudent people are not going to take a leap in the dark

小心謹慎的人是不會輕易冒險的。

Every single one of those inspired guesses had been shots in the dark.

所有那些憑直覺的猜測都是無根據的瞎猜。

The investigators admit that they are completely in the dark about the killing

調查人員承認他們對這起謀殺一無所知。

Then I waited, trying not to feel as if I were whistling in the dark, but I experienced no easing of my fear and anxiety.

之後我開始等待，并竭力保持鎮定，可是恐懼和焦慮卻絲毫沒有消減。

以上6例摘自《柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典》

Being new here, I'm very much in the dark myself!

我剛來，真是丈二和尚摸不着頭腦！《漢英大詞典》

The management group's decision still boggled his mind.

管理層的決定仍讓他丈二和尚摸不着頭腦。

《柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典》

C另外：in the darkness在黑暗中（僅僅指黑暗的一個意思，還含有一時的黑暗之意）

Lights flash up in the darkness.

燈光在黑暗中閃耀。

《漢英大詞典》

In the darkness they could see the vague outline of a church.

他們在黑暗中能看到一座教堂的朦胧輪廓。

A cigarette end glowed red in the darkness.

一個煙頭在黑暗中發着紅光。

We managed to lose our pursuers in the darkness.

我們設法在黑暗中擺脫了追趕者。

In the darkness I bumped into a chair.

我在黑暗中撞上了一把椅子。

The blade of the knife glinted in the darkness.

刀刃在黑暗中亮了亮。

We saw two more wild cats creeping towards us in the darkness

我們看見又有兩隻野貓在黑暗中悄悄向我們靠近。

He lay in the darkness, pretending to sleep.

他躺在黑暗中，假裝睡覺。

John had been sitting, unobserved, in the darkness.

約翰一直坐在黑暗中，沒有被人察覺。

He hurried into the hall, banging his shin against a chair in the darkness.

他匆匆步入大廳，黑暗中小腿撞到了一把椅子上。

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