That's because it's here where the rigid polarities between light and dark and good and evil, all of these absolute oppositions, begin to collapse.

这是因为这里就是光与暗,善与恶之间严格的两极分化，及所有绝对的对比开始崩塌的地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And these really short people with dark skin met them and took them to their city.

然后这些个子很小、深色皮肤的人见到了他们，把他们带到自己的城市去。

神话有趣的课 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There are defense mechanisms, there are biological instincts, neurosis-- and if you understand these very often dark forces, were better able to deal with life: understand as well as improve the quality of life.

还有防卫机制，人类本能论，神经症-,如果你理解这些黑暗势力，就能更好地处理生活：,了解并改善生活质量。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

These are dark times.

这些就是黑暗时代

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选