The film was ahead of its time, a dark tale whose brooding design, murky lighting, overlapping dialogue and ripped-from-true -life Hearst connection created an unnerving sense of realism.

这部电影超越了它的时代，灰暗的故事，昏暗的灯光，重叠的对话以及赫斯特迷幻与现实的一生营造出了一种绝望的现实主义场景。

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It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls.

这是一个黑暗的小故事，讲的是有个男人发现了一个魔法杯，得知如果他对着杯子哭泣，掉进杯里的眼泪会变成珍珠。

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But there is a dark side to the tale, too.

但故事也有黑暗的一面。

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So, what you see is children dead, children turned to stone, and this is the dark side of that fairy tale quality that we see in other parts of the novel that's been coming back in our lectures.

那么，你们读到的是死去的孩子，变成石头的孩子，着就是,童话般的小说的,其它部分的阴暗面,它正渐渐成为我们课程的主题。

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But there is a dark side to the tale, too.

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He knew he could not win and chose to spare himself the humiliating details of once-cherished teammates testifying against him, of other evidence rolled out to expose the dark side of the fairy tale.

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So I don't think it was unusual for Bartok to pick a revisionist rendition of a dark and terror-filled fairy tale as the libretto for his first and only opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

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