In the purply light of dusk the town looked peaceful and happy—enchanting even—and there was an engaging air of expectancy, of fun about to happen.

在紫红色的暮色中，这座城镇显得宁静幸福，甚至是迷人的，空气中萦绕着一种期待的迷人气氛，一种即将要发生的有趣气氛。

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A third group are known as crepuscular: they thrive in the low light of dawn and dusk and remain inactive at other hours.

第三组被称为黄昏组：他们在黎明和黄昏的微光中茁壮成长，而在其他时间则不活跃。

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The light which still shone was derived mainly from a large hole in the western bank of cloud; it was like a piece of day left behind by accident, dusk having closed in elsewhere.

那时仍然透露出来的光线，主要是从西边一大片云彩中的一个大洞中产生生出来的；它仿佛是偶然剩余下来的一片昼，而四周已经被暮色包围了。

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Wolinsky, who now runs the photo advice site PixBoomBa.com, tends to shoot city buildings when the natural light in the sky equals the light inside a building (usually around dusk, just as evening lights are turned on).

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And as I go out to them, my aunts, silhouetted where they sit in the silver light of early dusk, I remember the women returning home at nightfall from the plots among the trees.

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The annual Tribute in Light, presented by the Municipal Art Society, will start at dusk on 11 September and be on display through dawn on 12 September.

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