Actually, I also saw 'Robin Hood.' It was definitely an epic film but it was really dark and gloomy, so I wasn't as big of a fan of that."

VOA: special.2010.06.14

First,they don't meet in the daytime; they meet either early before light,at dawn, or after dark,at night.

首先，他们不在白天聚会;,要么在天亮前的黎明，要么在天黑后的夜晚。

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Maybe you should leave before it gets too dark, so that you don't have to walk too far.

也许你该在天黑之前就动身回去了，这样你就不用走那么远了。

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He says the station is not a happy one. He says when he saw it, he was very scared because the station isn't light, it's very dark.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

That is because in the Dark Ages we don't have any writing.

这是因为在黑暗时代,没有什么保留下来的文字

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Does that sound dark? I don't know.

这个听起来阴暗,我也不知道

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Another characteristic of these years, which scholars refer to as the Dark Ages, just as they do the years after the fall of the Roman Empire-- dark for two reasons. Dark, in the most obvious way, because we don't have any writing, no record of them.

这也是这段时期的另一个特征,学者们称之为,黑暗时代,他们也是这么称呼,罗马帝国陷落后的那段时期的,称黑暗主要有两个原因,黑暗,最明显的理由,是因为我们没有任何关于他们的史料和记录

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Five hundred years ago, that wouldn't have sounded dark.

五百年前,这个听起来绝对不阴暗

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