"What will we do?" she cries. "we can't find our house in the dark."

“我们要怎么办？”她哭着说。“这么暗我们找不到家了。”

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The cries met each other almost directly above me, 20 or 30 feet up in the dark.

BBC: England��s ghostly South Downs Way

For a typical American family that earns less than it did in the year President Obama was elected, the anguished cries and dark predictions coming out of the White House should elicit not sympathy but revulsion.

WSJ: Phil Gramm: Obama and the Sequester Scare