Yet, all I could feel was a numbness, as dull and muted as the sky.

然而，我能感受到的全是麻木，如天空一般的迟钝和缄默。

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Slow, peaceful, and grave, these hours return, just as strong, just as moving – there is a kind of vague desire in the dull sky.

那些时光回来了，徐缓，平和而肃穆，仍如旧日一般浓烈动人——阴沉的天空中弥漫着一种模糊的渴望。

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Once it was on the ground, the moon was a pockmarked, sandy boulder, so dull and opaque that it was incredible to think that it had once illuminated the sky with its shining reflection.

月亮一落到地面，就像一个布满痘疮的沙质的石头，如此的晦暗无光，简直难以相信它曾经用反射的光芒照亮了整个天空。

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Low in the sky there's the classic cotton wool Cumulus, the Stratus, a layer of "rather dull" cloud, and higher up Cirrus - "a translucent delicate streak as if a watercolour brush has been stroked across the blue".

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