"they fumbled around in total darkness" "in the black of night"
"the widow wore black"
"black leather jackets" "as black as coal" "rich black soil"
"a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"
"black looks" "black words"
"the future looked black" "prospects were bleak" "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult" "took a dim view of things"
"black deeds" "a black lie" "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed" "Darth Vader of the dark side" "a dark purpose" "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility" "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"
"the stock market crashed on Black Friday" "a calamitous defeat" "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign" "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory" "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it" "a fateful error"
"a face black with fury"
"a black moonless night" "through the pitch-black woods" "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
"black humor" "a grim joke" "grim laughter" "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
"black propaganda"
"the black economy pays no taxes"
"Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands" "an ignominious retreat" "inglorious defeat" "an opprobrious monument to human greed" "a shameful display of cowardice"
"with feet black from playing outdoors" "his shirt was black within an hour"
"The smoke blackened the ceiling" "The ceiling blackened"
误 I became black after taking a two-hour bathe.
正 I became very dark〔suntanned〕 after taking a two-hour bathe.
析 表示“晒黑”时,不说become black,应说become dark或suntanned。
误 He was dressed in the black.
正 He was dressed in black.
析 表示“穿着某种颜色的衣服”时,可用“in+表示颜色的词”,此时在表示颜色的词前不加冠词。“in the black”的意思是“有盈余”。例如:
The new production method put the factory in the black.新生产方法使工厂有了盈余。