At the bottom of the stairs my hand met an electric switch. I turned it, and a great electrolier of twelve red globes flooded the cellar with a red light.

到了最下边一级台阶，我的手碰到一个电源开关，我打开它，一座安了十个红灯泡的大型吊灯架让地下室里一片红色。

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Light bar with glass globes. Number of globes can be specified.

带多个玻璃球形灯的灯柱。可指定灯的数目。

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It was this broad avenue, hung with bobbing white lanterns, alight with girls fluent in yukata (a light kimono) and little boys carrying lit-up white globes, that greeted me my first night in Kyoto, in 1984, on a three-day visit through Japan with my mother, en route to India.

BBC: The walk that made me love Japan