To record the historical truth, Akhmatova writes a narrative poem Requiem during those dark years.

在黑暗的岁月里，阿赫玛托娃创作了叙事诗《安魂曲》，记录下了历史的真实。

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I've been groping in the dark in a number of years.

多年来，我一直在黑暗中摸索。

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One hundred years ago, we had those times of dark.

一百年前，我们有过那段天黑的日子。

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Scientists have wondered about mysterious dark matter particles for more than seventy years.

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Five hundred years ago, that wouldn't have sounded dark.

五百年前,这个听起来绝对不阴暗

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Another characteristic of these years, which scholars refer to as the Dark Ages, just as they do the years after the fall of the Roman Empire-- dark for two reasons. Dark, in the most obvious way, because we don't have any writing, no record of them.

这也是这段时期的另一个特征,学者们称之为,黑暗时代,他们也是这么称呼,罗马帝国陷落后的那段时期的,称黑暗主要有两个原因,黑暗,最明显的理由,是因为我们没有任何关于他们的史料和记录

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Even during those dark years, I never stopped riding my skateboard and never stopped progressing as a skater.

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It took several painful, dark years for doctors and researchers to figure the facts of that last paragraph out.

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The ubiquitous spinach-and-feta pies on the menus of American diners indicate that many Greeks spent these dark years voting with their feet.

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