During the winter, you may well find that you're arriving at work when it's only just getting light, and leaving when it's already dark.

在冬天时，你会发现自己到办公室时天才刚亮，回去的时候天都已经黑了。

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and of course we've already been gazing at that light back there, and it's not a good example.

如果我们看着那里的灯，虽然这个例子有些瑕疵。

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For all that it lasted four decades and ended less than a month ago, the colonel's era already seems light-years away.

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