Darkness was settling like a spell around them.

黑暗像魔咒一样笼罩着他们。

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The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre pointed out that depression is like a spell that a person casts over the world to make it utterly gray and uninteresting.

哲学家Jean-Paul Sartre曾指出来，抑郁就像一个魔咒，有一个人在将它施于整个世界，想将世界变成绝对灰色、无趣。

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A badly run "year of culture" washes in and washes out of a place like a tide, bringing prominence for a spell but leaving no lasting benefits to the community.

运作不力的“文化年”如潮水般在一个地方涌进涌出，带来一时的风光，但并没有给当地带来持久的好处。

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..I have kept hidden in the instep arch Of an old cedar at the waterside A broken drinking goblet like the Grail Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it, So can't get saved as Saint Mark says they mustn't.

我还保存着一只坏了的高脚酒杯,埋在水边的一棵老树底下,像受了符咒的圣杯,使坏人找不到，如圣马可所说：他们因此不能得救。

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So we had two weeks like about... Three weeks ago, we had like a big heat spell.

所以我们已经有两个星期像这样了……三个星期前，我们有一个持续高温的时期。

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"It's like having a spell check that underlines words if you've made a mistake, " says Rutgers Professor Bill Ward, who was shocked that Chalfie's bacteria shone at all.

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With that in mind, Axelrod is limiting her exposure to the sector, especially on big name pharmaceuticals like that have faced a dry spell in coming up with new blockbuster products.

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It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.

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