前一天下了雪——在一年中几乎没有黑暗的时候，会有一种奇怪的感觉——但周日，太阳照耀着湖面。

It snowed the day before — giving a strange feeling at a time of year when there is virtually no darkness — but on Sunday the sun blazed across the water.

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没有黑暗这种东西，只有看不见而已。

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. (Muggeridge).

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但这些家庭里没有黑暗，也没有寒冷。

But those homes had no darkness, nor were they cold.

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They're not bidden to be cast out in to utter darkness where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth.

没有因为无所事事而受惩罚,他们没有被罚去充满哭泣声和牙齿的无尽的黑暗里。

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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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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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