Break out the flashlights. When a full lunar eclipse takes place on the shortest day of the year, the planet may just get awfully dark.

拿出手电筒吧。当一年里最短的一天发生月全食，地球可能会变得一片漆黑。

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They make a living working many hours a day, 7 days a week, often in the dark, without a break for long stretches of time.

他们谋生在每天多小时的工作，每周7天，经常是在黑暗中，没有略长一点时间的休息。

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Develop a silly routine to break a dark mood.

安排一个愚蠢的计划来打破坏心情。

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C. and his friends never approached the Taj but hung out instead at the south end of the Strip, where there were cheap motels, fast-food restaurants, pawnshops, bail-bond shops, and storefront churches, with sprawling parking lots, not parking garages, so they could cruise the lots and side streets after dark and break into parked vehicles if no one was watching.

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Downing Street has told German car manufacturer BMW of Prime Minister Tony Blair's anger at how he was kept in the dark over the break-up of the Rover car group.

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After I wrote that our boys drive my dumpy '92 Saab, parents emailed saying they felt they needed to provide their girls with cars that were less likely to break down on a dark street.

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