In times of fear and darkness, we tend to suppress the better angels of our nature.

在充满恐惧和黑暗的时期，人们会将人性中善的那部分藏起来。

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You that are still in the flesh, subject to horrors of the imagination, think what a monstrous fear that must be which seeks in darkness security from malevolent existences of the night.

你们还是肉身，会被想象的恐惧左右，会想那该是多大的恐惧啊，会让人从夜的险恶存在中寻找安全感。

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The parents tried to help their little girl to overcome her fear of darkness.

父母设法帮助他们的小女孩战胜对黑暗的恐惧。

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He waitedwaited there in the darkness through what seemed like centuries of such fear.

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