dark: [OE] Dark comes ultimately from a Germanic base *derk-, *dark-, which also produced Old High German tarchanjan ‘hide’ and Middle Low German dork ‘place where dirt collects’ (outside Germanic, Lithuanian dargus has been compared). In Old English the word usually denoted absence of light, particularly with reference to ‘night’; the application to colours did not develop until the 16th century.
dark (adj.)
Old English deorc "dark, obscure, gloomy; sad, cheerless; sinister, wicked," from Proto-Germanic *derkaz (cognates: Old High German tarchanjan "to hide, conceal"). "Absence of light" especially at night is the original meaning. Application to colors is 16c. Theater slang for "closed" is from 1916.
dark (n.)
early 13c., from dark (adj.). Figurative in the dark "ignorant" first recorded 1670s.
雙語例句
1. In the dark my sense of hearing becomes so acute.
黑暗中我的聽覺變得異常靈敏。
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2. I managed to keep my parents in the dark about this.
我設法對父母瞞下了此事。
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3. He stared into the dark void where the battle had been fought.
他凝望著那片漆黑的空曠之地，那次戰役就是在這裏進行的。
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4. I'm scared of the dark. I'm a big chicken.
我怕黑，是個十足的膽小鬼。
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5. Leo went on, his dark eyes wide with pity and concern.