A flurry of shots rang out in the darkness.

黑暗中突然发出一片枪声。

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There was a flash of lightning and the house was plunged into darkness.

雷电闪过，房子陷入一片黑暗之中。

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But when she took the blue coat, there on the shelf behind all of the dark coats, hidden like a spring flower in winter darkness, there, as if by magic, was a pink coat.

但是当她拿起那件蓝色的外套时，在那堆深色外套后面的架子上，就像冬天黑暗中一朵春天的花朵一样，好像被魔法藏了起来，却发现了一件粉红色的外套。

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He knew not why. There in the black darkness by the side of the body, he remembered everything without a shock.

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Each year it's dramatized by the cycle of the seasons, And at a certain time of the year it seems that The forces of darkness and chaos are prevailing but each spring, Once again, cosmic order and life return.

每年这冲突都由季节的轮回戏剧性地体现出来，仿佛是每年都有一个时期,弥散着黑暗和混乱的势力，可是每当春天来临，宇庙的秩序又恢复了。

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The Apology takes place in the Court of Athens, the most public of settings, while the Crito occurs within the darkness and confinement of a prison cell.

苏格拉底自辩篇》发生在雅典的法庭，最公开的场合；,而《克里托篇》则是在,阴暗幽禁的监狱牢房之中。

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He dreamed of footsteps crunching on the driveway gravel, of shadows in the pre-dawn darkness, of a gun-toting police squad bursting through his backdoor at 5 am.

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The biggest broadcast event of the year was suddenly jolted by silence and darkness when a portion of the Super Dome in New Orleans lost power early in the game's second half.

NPR: CBS Scrambles With Power Outage In Super Dome

Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) -- French forces swooped into Somalia for a rescue mission under the cover of darkness, leading to a fierce gun battle with militants who killed the hostage, the French defense ministry said Saturday.

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