Brightness

(noun.) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white.

(noun.) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty.

校对:佩德罗

• She fell asleep, hoping for some brightness, either internal or external. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the great city. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• A particular shade of any colour may acquire a new degree of liveliness or brightness without any other variation. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• When Mr. Hale came in, Margaret went out, oppressed with gloom, and seeing no promise of brightness on any side of the horizon. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It was as the day went on that the clouds gathered, and the brightness of the morning became obscured. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The English mind again had a phase of brightness in the seventh and eighth centuries, and it did not shine again until the fifteenth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Meanwhile the last moments of the performance seemed to gain an added brightness from the hovering threat of the curtain. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The light diminishes in brightness much more rapidly than we realize, as the following simple experiment will show. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Man walked forth, elated with the scene; and all was brightness and splendour. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Yet her voice had the same defensive brightness as she spoke to Birkin's landlady at the door. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Earth was past,--and earthly pain; but so solemn, so mysterious, was the triumphant brightness of that face, that it checked even the sobs of sorrow. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The walls were whitewashed as white as milk, and the patchwork counterpane made my eyes quite ache with its brightness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The two sisters worked on in silence, Ursula having always that strange brightness of an essential flame that is caught, meshed, contravened. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But the very brightness outside made the colours within seem poor and faded. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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