This is because lighter colors take in less of the strong heat of the sun than dark colors do.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.

在黑暗中我认出了你,刺戮屠杀我的时候，你和昨天一样皱着眉。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But if we look at the society that emerges, this Dark Age society that emerges from the ancient world of Mycenae, what you have is a rare human experience.

如果我们仔细观察这渐渐浮出水面的社会,这个从古代迈锡尼文明浮现出来的,黑暗时代的社会,你会得到一些相当宝贵的经验

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So I went through the dark dirty streets and houses, and saw how the people suffered in this area.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

I was only myself, Sal Paradise, sad, strolling in this violet dark, this unbearably sweet night wishing I could exchange worlds with the happy, true-hearted, ecstatic Negroes of America.

引-我只是我，萨尔·佩拉提斯，无精打采地徘徊在这个，温柔的难以忍受的夜晚，多希望自己能够变成,一个快乐，真诚，热情奔放的美国黑人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"They started out this kind of dark kelly and then they go to yellow, green,and brown.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

See the merry limbs in hot Highland fling Because some wizard vermin Charmed from the quiet this revel When our ears were half lulled By the dark music Blown from Sleep's trumpet.

看那在苏格兰高地舞欢快的四肢,因为一些男巫,神往陶醉于这狂欢中,当我们的耳朵半听着,在黑暗音乐边的是小号的声音。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

This song by K.D.Lang is about dreaming of spring in cold dark places.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

Aristotle went on to say that the justice needed to control this dark side of human nature can be found only in a well ordered society of free people who govern themselves, and the only one that he knew was the Polis of the Greeks.

亚里士多德还说过,正义需要用来,控制人性的丑恶面,只有在公民自治的秩序井然的,社会里才能找得到正义,他所知道的这样的社会就是希腊城邦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

You are reading these things and this kind of dark mood sets over you and again, whether you are for or against the death penalty, that is not my point it is that sifting through enough of that sort of puts that mood on you,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

So, what you see is children dead, children turned to stone, and this is the dark side of that fairy tale quality that we see in other parts of the novel that's been coming back in our lectures.

那么，你们读到的是死去的孩子，变成石头的孩子，着就是,童话般的小说的,其它部分的阴暗面,它正渐渐成为我们课程的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's dark. The other, dark, in the sense of gloomy, not good, bad; this is a hard time, a poor time, a wretched time, a miserable time.

因此称之为黑暗,另一个理由是,黑暗从悲观的角度来说就是不好的,坏的,这是一个艰难的时代,一个穷苦的时代,一个不幸的时代,一个悲惨的时代

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选