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Definition of darkly in English:

darkly

adverb ˈdɑːkliˈdɑrkli
  • 1In a threatening, mysterious, or ominous way.

    阴森的,阴沉的,神秘莫测的

    ‘You can't trust him,’ said Jacob darkly
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Chancellor could also hint darkly at the possibility of a windfall tax on the oil companies.
    • Opponents of the SAT say we don't know what it measures and hint darkly that it smacks of discredited IQ testing.
    • Already, Labour MPs are making complaints about this and hinting darkly that they won't do interviews if they are asked questions about devolved matters.
    • Conservatives hint darkly of trouble ahead if the constitution goes into effect.
    • Fine Gael sources hint darkly that all this publicity cannot be doing his firm any good, and point to transactions last week where the firm bought back its own shares.
    • Both bureaucrat and scientist recognise the problem, abhor it in public, mutter darkly about the stupidity of the selection processes which succumb to it, and continue as before.
    • He should have hinted darkly at death threats and used many anonymous sources without ever producing any kind of proof.
    • He hints darkly at the impending murder of Banquo and Fleance but does not confide that he has already commissioned it.
    • He likes to hint darkly of terrors that would set all such petty concerns at naught.
    • They could even be doing more than that, he hinted darkly.
    • Their opera is the mysterious and darkly moving tale of what happened after the pied piper left Hamelin.
    • He did so in language that hinted darkly at a revival of the Cold War.
    • His Sweeney is arresting, ominous, darkly humorous, and scary in just the right proportions, and, in the end, thoroughly moving.
    • His face was now cheery, no longer hinting darkly at his knowledge.
    • Carolyn Jones was wonderful as his darkly mysterious and sexy wife Morticia, slinking around in her figure-hugging, full-length black dress.
    • Fiennes is woefully miscast as the darkly mysterious adventurer.
    • To Howard's mind those last words sounded darkly ominous.
    • It has been hinted darkly that if Scots do not support the London Games, nationwide backing for Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games bid could suffer.
    • ‘Well he better keep his distance, I didn't like the way he was looking at you,’ Chad threatened darkly.
    • McLeish hinted, darkly, about replacing the 30-year-old.
    1. 1.1 In a pessimistic way.
      阴沉的,忧郁的
      I wondered darkly if I was wasting my time

      我忧郁地想我是不是在浪费时间。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Never mind the cheesy aroma emanating from the ending, Wonder Boys is a darkly comic gem.
      • The humanism was still there, but it was now pessimistic and darkly existential.
      • It's a darkly comic drama, which makes you wonder how they get away with it.
      • Euripides's darkly psychological study of a woman's obsession with her murdered father and her quest for retribution presents its characters not as mythical heroes, but as flawed human beings.
      • This hints at future scenes, but it's also darkly comic, because these shots are cut with Devlin's men loading their guns.
      • Some art critics have described Westermann's work as darkly pessimistic.
      • Are we programmed to be conformists, secretly fascinated by the power of authority, as the psychologists of the Frankfurt School wondered darkly in the aftermath of the Second World War?
      • Yet for all the sadness that colours these diaries darkly, the final impression is of triumph - of a life lived creatively and to the limits of potential.
      • Johnson's voice is darkly pessimistic, yet trapped in the formulas of the Cold War.
  • 2With a dark colour.

    暗淡地,阴暗地

    a figure silhouetted darkly against the trees

    树林衬映出的一个黑影。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The man was darkly handsome, with black swept back hair and dark gray eyes.
    • Most have dark and black hair, and have darkly painted finger nails.
    • She could sit at her windowsill for hours recalling the way Damien's eyes had shined so darkly and threateningly and beautifully.
    • One of the cops shouted as the two darkly dressed operatives ran into the trees.
    • Just then, another figure moved into the pool of light, dressed darkly like Jerred.
    • One of his darkly coloured earlier works, it features a peasant family's mealtime, dimly lit by a tallow lamp, with a huge plate of steaming spuds as the centrepiece.
    • Here, against the lingering light of a winter afternoon, I have often watched, fascinated, as the darkly silhouetted harriers glide in just above the reeds.
    • Who is this figure, a silhouette in the darkly tangled trees that obscure the path, a figure who seems to have slowed down enough to give you time to catch up?
    • This one was taller, and a little heavy, with long black curly hair framing a darkly tanned face with laugh lines around the dark brown eyes.
    • And true to the Lieutenant's word, seconds later a vast array of darkly coloured ships emerged from the even deeper black of space.
    • The colours are as crisp as can be remembered and the darkly lit interiors are presented with a clarity impossible to achieve on video.
    • Using a mirror, you can look for areas that are red, irritated, white or darkly coloured.
    • Her skin was as pale as snow; making her darkly colored eyes seem black so that they resembled dark pools.
    • At the end of the hallway she was faced with a door, which swung open to reveal a small darkly coloured room with thick carpeting and two windows on the right and opposite wall.
    • He walked up until he was standing right in front of her, his dark shadow looming darkly over her limp form on the ground, cross-legged.
    • On a day like this it looked darkly threatening.
    • Just then, the click, clacking of the mortals' shoes were heard as their darkly silhouetted figures stood in the center near the fountain.
    • The man leaning against the high-backed chair was darkly handsome and Cassidy wondered if he was the infamous Ian Royale.
    • She eased it out to reveal a trap door and as she poked outside of this mysterious door, her new room… was darkly lit as she crept onto the bed…
    • The room was darkly lit and the amorphous silhouettes littered about in the shadows made it claustrophobic.

Definition of darkly in US English:

darkly

adverbˈdɑrkliˈdärklē
  • 1In a threatening, mysterious, or ominous way.

    阴森的,阴沉的,神秘莫测的

    “You can't trust him,” said Jacob darkly
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Carolyn Jones was wonderful as his darkly mysterious and sexy wife Morticia, slinking around in her figure-hugging, full-length black dress.
    • He should have hinted darkly at death threats and used many anonymous sources without ever producing any kind of proof.
    • McLeish hinted, darkly, about replacing the 30-year-old.
    • Both bureaucrat and scientist recognise the problem, abhor it in public, mutter darkly about the stupidity of the selection processes which succumb to it, and continue as before.
    • He likes to hint darkly of terrors that would set all such petty concerns at naught.
    • It has been hinted darkly that if Scots do not support the London Games, nationwide backing for Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games bid could suffer.
    • Fine Gael sources hint darkly that all this publicity cannot be doing his firm any good, and point to transactions last week where the firm bought back its own shares.
    • Their opera is the mysterious and darkly moving tale of what happened after the pied piper left Hamelin.
    • Already, Labour MPs are making complaints about this and hinting darkly that they won't do interviews if they are asked questions about devolved matters.
    • The Chancellor could also hint darkly at the possibility of a windfall tax on the oil companies.
    • ‘Well he better keep his distance, I didn't like the way he was looking at you,’ Chad threatened darkly.
    • He hints darkly at the impending murder of Banquo and Fleance but does not confide that he has already commissioned it.
    • Fiennes is woefully miscast as the darkly mysterious adventurer.
    • Opponents of the SAT say we don't know what it measures and hint darkly that it smacks of discredited IQ testing.
    • His face was now cheery, no longer hinting darkly at his knowledge.
    • Conservatives hint darkly of trouble ahead if the constitution goes into effect.
    • To Howard's mind those last words sounded darkly ominous.
    • They could even be doing more than that, he hinted darkly.
    • He did so in language that hinted darkly at a revival of the Cold War.
    • His Sweeney is arresting, ominous, darkly humorous, and scary in just the right proportions, and, in the end, thoroughly moving.
    1. 1.1 In a depressing or pessimistic way.
      阴沉的,忧郁的
      I wondered darkly if I was wasting my time

      我忧郁地想我是不是在浪费时间。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet for all the sadness that colours these diaries darkly, the final impression is of triumph - of a life lived creatively and to the limits of potential.
      • Some art critics have described Westermann's work as darkly pessimistic.
      • Never mind the cheesy aroma emanating from the ending, Wonder Boys is a darkly comic gem.
      • Johnson's voice is darkly pessimistic, yet trapped in the formulas of the Cold War.
      • Are we programmed to be conformists, secretly fascinated by the power of authority, as the psychologists of the Frankfurt School wondered darkly in the aftermath of the Second World War?
      • This hints at future scenes, but it's also darkly comic, because these shots are cut with Devlin's men loading their guns.
      • The humanism was still there, but it was now pessimistic and darkly existential.
      • It's a darkly comic drama, which makes you wonder how they get away with it.
      • Euripides's darkly psychological study of a woman's obsession with her murdered father and her quest for retribution presents its characters not as mythical heroes, but as flawed human beings.
  • 2With a dark color.

    暗淡地,阴暗地

    a figure silhouetted darkly against the trees

    树林衬映出的一个黑影。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of the cops shouted as the two darkly dressed operatives ran into the trees.
    • At the end of the hallway she was faced with a door, which swung open to reveal a small darkly coloured room with thick carpeting and two windows on the right and opposite wall.
    • And true to the Lieutenant's word, seconds later a vast array of darkly coloured ships emerged from the even deeper black of space.
    • Just then, the click, clacking of the mortals' shoes were heard as their darkly silhouetted figures stood in the center near the fountain.
    • This one was taller, and a little heavy, with long black curly hair framing a darkly tanned face with laugh lines around the dark brown eyes.
    • Her skin was as pale as snow; making her darkly colored eyes seem black so that they resembled dark pools.
    • The man leaning against the high-backed chair was darkly handsome and Cassidy wondered if he was the infamous Ian Royale.
    • He walked up until he was standing right in front of her, his dark shadow looming darkly over her limp form on the ground, cross-legged.
    • She could sit at her windowsill for hours recalling the way Damien's eyes had shined so darkly and threateningly and beautifully.
    • One of his darkly coloured earlier works, it features a peasant family's mealtime, dimly lit by a tallow lamp, with a huge plate of steaming spuds as the centrepiece.
    • The man was darkly handsome, with black swept back hair and dark gray eyes.
    • She eased it out to reveal a trap door and as she poked outside of this mysterious door, her new room… was darkly lit as she crept onto the bed…
    • Here, against the lingering light of a winter afternoon, I have often watched, fascinated, as the darkly silhouetted harriers glide in just above the reeds.
    • Using a mirror, you can look for areas that are red, irritated, white or darkly coloured.
    • Most have dark and black hair, and have darkly painted finger nails.
    • On a day like this it looked darkly threatening.
    • The colours are as crisp as can be remembered and the darkly lit interiors are presented with a clarity impossible to achieve on video.
    • Just then, another figure moved into the pool of light, dressed darkly like Jerred.
    • The room was darkly lit and the amorphous silhouettes littered about in the shadows made it claustrophobic.
    • Who is this figure, a silhouette in the darkly tangled trees that obscure the path, a figure who seems to have slowed down enough to give you time to catch up?
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