This is why the dark night has such a quality of despair: we are suddenly shut off from what we thought we had realized and the emotional pain is very real.

这就是为什么这暗夜让我们觉得如此绝望：我们突然和那些自以为认识到的觉知领域隔绝，并且这份情绪上的痛苦是如此真切。

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Dark comedy refers rather to the tragicomic form in which laughter and despair are inextricably mingled.

黑色喜剧一词更确切地说是把笑声和绝望难解难分地结合在一起的那种悲喜剧形式。

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There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair.

过去有许多黑暗时刻，让我对人性的信心面临严重的挑战，但我不愿也不能让自己绝望。

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Wearing a blue baseball cap and a green sweater over a shirt and blue jeans, he looked trim and fit, but his dark, angular face showed strain and despair and bitterness.

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