darken

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɑːkən/    美 /ˈdɑɹkən/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make dark or darker by reducing light. transitive
    — […] they [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened […]
  2. To become dark or darker (having less light). intransitive
    — […] the owl and the bat flew round the darkening trees:
  3. To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud). impersonal
    — Well, I must go in now; and you too: it darkens.
  4. To make dark or darker in colour. transitive
    — She puts on lipstick and darkens her eyebrows, which are now very scanty […]
  5. To become dark or darker in colour. intransitive
    — The lovely hair had lost its rose-gold glimmer, and had darkened to rose-brown […]
  6. To render gloomy, darker in mood. transitive
    — With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not The mirth o’ the feast.
  7. To become gloomy, darker in mood. intransitive
    — 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 […]
  8. To blind, impair the eyesight. transitive
    — Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see […]
  9. To be blinded, lose one’s eyesight. intransitive
  10. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible. transitive
    — Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
  11. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish. transitive
    — I must not think there are Evils enow to darken all his goodness:
  12. To be extinguished or deprived of vitality, to die. intransitive
    — The Danube to the Severn gave ⁠The darken’d heart that beat no more; ⁠They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
bedarken darken a church door darken down darkener darken someone's door darken someone's doorstep darken someone's doorway darken up endarken overdarken redarken
相关词
dark

词源

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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