We were staying in a seedy hotel close to the red light district.

我们住在靠近红灯区的一家脏乱的旅馆里。

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Basically the light bouncing off all these objects close to earth is brighter than what's coming from the stars.

大体上，所有靠近地球的这些物体所反射的光都比来自恒星的要亮。

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Very little light filters through the canopy of leaves and branches in a rain forest to reach ground level—or close to the ground—and at those levels the yellow-to-green wavelengths predominate.

在雨林中，很少有光透过树叶和树枝形成的树荫到达地面——或者接近地面——在这些高度上，黄色到绿色的波长占主导地位。

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In a report in the journal Nature, US researchers say they have worked out how black holes emit jet streams of particles at close to light speed.

BBC: Black holes reveal more secrets

Because radiation from the Crab nebula is so energetic, the electrons that created it must have been travelling very close to the speed of light so close that the difference between the two speeds would bump up against Planck-scale graininess, and show up in the spectrum of the radiation.

ECONOMIST: Planck-scale physics

You simply lift the 20 pound bag up close to the light and you get 30 minutes of light.

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