A few of these spores found a toehold on the dark, forbidding rocks and grew and began to work their transformation upon the land.

其中一些孢子在黑暗、险峻的岩石上找到了立足点并开始生长，同时开始了它们改变这片土地的事业。

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But the gradual melt-back of that cover exposes more of the dark ocean, land and vegetation to the direct rays of the Sun, allowing them to absorb ever more solar energy and warm up.

但是这种冰雪盖的逐渐消融使得更多的深色海洋、陆地和植被暴露在太阳的直接辐射之下，从而使它们可以吸收更多的太阳能并变暖。

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The sun even peeked through the dark clouds that once fully covered the land.

太阳甚至可以照射到这片曾经被乌云完全笼罩的土地。

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This phenomenon, called Arctic amplification, occurs as highly reflective Arctic ice and snow melt away, allowing dark land and exposed ocean to absorb more sunlight.

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If you are a wrathful god, you will create a dark, unfriendly land and a vicious creature.

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This is also the land of the deep, dark woods that Little Red Riding Hood skipped through, the land of towers tall enough for Rapunzel, and charming chocolate-box houses to tempt Hansel and Gretel.

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