Life at the dark depths where these vents occur gets its food and energy from the Earth, not from the sun-and much of it is strange.

生活在这些深暗的火山口的生物，是从地球获得食物和能量，而不是太阳，其中很多物种对我们来说是陌生的。

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Even if the scientific consensus is that extinction events don't occur in a predictable cycle, there are now other reasons to suspect a dark companion to the Sun.

即使在“物种大灭绝事件不会在一个可预测的周期中发生”这一观点上达成科学共识，我们也没有理由去怀疑太阳有一颗黑暗的伴星。

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The sun is just a dimly glowing patch of cloud across which flurries of snowflakes swirl and eddy, dark patterns against the glow.

太阳只是一朵朦胧发光的云，穿越了疾风飞雪的漩涡，光亮衬托出深黑的外形轮廓。

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This is because lighter colors take in less of the strong heat of the sun than dark colors do.

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That's because as the Earth moves around the Sun, it is moving into a stationary field of dark matter - and for half the year it will be moving against the tide of dark matter - just like driving into the rain.

BBC: Dark Matter: Experiment to shed light on dark particles

Lino is as thin as a whippet, all sinew and lean muscle, and dark with the sun.

BBC: Sardinia, land and sea

Perhaps the reason is that those who toiled all day in the fields became dark while the aristocratic elite, protected from the sun, remained pristine white.

BBC: A Point Of View: How China sees a multicultural world