As the day darkened the streetlights came on.

天色渐暗，街灯亮了。

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He looked around as the glooming evening spread from shadow to shadow; streetlights were flickering on at random, doorways and corners beginning to look threatening.

他四面看看，这时阴暗的黄昏从阴影蔓延到阴影；街灯胡乱地忽明忽暗，门口和街角开始看起来危险重重。

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Lying on our backs in the parking lot, staring up at the one star that came through the streetlights, I asked Tyler what he'd been fighting.

最后，我们俩躺在停车场的地上，从街灯之间望着天空中唯一的星星，我问泰勒他以前跟谁搏击。

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"When I was growing up - 'shoo!' - out the door in the morning and you'd play outside until the streetlights came on at night."

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Bhutto said streetlights on the route were not working, which hindered security guards.

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But Coach will tell you, when them streetlights come on, his ass got to be right back here: Nine o'clock, he's got to be in the house.

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Until then, they were fairly boring things, with most people understanding how they worked only because their neighborhood streetlights went on when they sensed darkness, smoke detectors sounded alarms and fire trucks beeped because motion sensors understood when they were backing up.

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