The lights could not be turned on after eleven o'clock every night in the dorm and the only thing I could do was turn on the dim lamp on my desk.

我们寝室在十一点以后就熄灯了，我只能打开我桌子上那盏不甚明亮的台灯。

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When the dance was over, Ichabod, the schoolmaster, found a group of old people sitting at a corner, talking in low voices under a dim lamp light.

当舞会结束时，伊卡伯这位小学教师发现一群老人围坐一角，在昏暗的灯光下低声交谈著。

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When the dance was over , ichabod , the schoolmaster , found a group of old people sitting at a corner , talking in low voices under a dim lamp light.

当舞会结束时，伊卡伯这位小学教师发现一群老人围坐一角，在昏暗的灯光下低声交谈著。

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I read under the dim light of a kerosene lamp.

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At the back of the shop, dim but for a single lamp hanging from the ceiling, there were a few unvarnished wooden tables.

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The bed seemed the perfect place to curl up with a book in the evening (the suites are blessedly sans televisions), but the dim lighting, which so added to the cabinlike feel earlier, and the weak bedside lamp made reading a spine-curving challenge (my only complaint about the suite).

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