You will, perhaps, think the building old and dark at first; though it is a respectable house: the next best in the neighbourhood.

也许你起初会觉得那所房子又旧又黑；虽然那是一所很漂亮的房子，在这附近是数一数二的了。

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Next to my house was a synagogue, and in the dark I saw the rabbi's finest white shirt hanging to be dried.

挨着我房子的是犹太教会堂，黑暗中我看到教士最好的白色法衣挂在哪里晾干。

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In that book, which pokes fun at the early-19th-century passion for Gothic fiction, a young heroine named Catherine becomes convinced that dark secrets lurk in the grand house she's visiting.

这本书嘲笑19世纪初对哥特式小说的热情，其中女主角凯瑟琳确信她拜访的这幢豪宅中潜伏着秘密。

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The scuppernong arbor behind the house was purple and dark in the twilight.

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The colors provide a stark contrast to the dark burned-out shell of a house that sits in the distance -- and offer a painful reminder of the tragedy that befell the people who lived within.

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At such times, the house would close in around her, dark, damp, utterly still, and yet busy with the echoes and memories of those who had gone before, generation upon generation of Lowes, all dark-eyed and stocky and taciturn, watching her from the shadows, listening when she spoke on the phone: listening, watching, judging.

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