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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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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No, its all my fault, I failed him because of fear, fear is it's own kind of darkness.

不，那都是我的错，我辜负了我父亲因为我有所恐惧，恐惧是自己所种下的黑暗。

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

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But, in later years, he had developed a potent fear of darkness in an empty house.

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