As he tells it,one day he looked in the window of a school and noticed how dark it was.

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Milton has his hero, Samson, bewailing the fact of his blindness: "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon irrecoverably dark, total eclipse without all hope of day!"

弥尔顿描写到自己崇拜的英雄参孙悲叹自己失明：,黑暗，黑暗，黑暗，在正午的光辉中,无法改变的黑暗，黯然的没有一点希望“

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We're in between absolute day and absolute night, light and dark.

我们处在绝对的日与绝对的夜之间，光与暗。

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On day one, light and dark are separated.

在第一天，光明与黑暗分界。

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