We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

我们现如今生存在一个无尽黑暗之海中心，被称为无知的平静小岛上，同时，还无 远行探求的需求。

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When first he came to the island he was a big, brawny fellow, with thick black hair and a black beard, of a powerful physique; but gradually his skin became pale and waxy; he grew thin and frail.

他第一次来到这个岛的时，身材魁梧，体格健硕，肌肉发达，头发乌黑浓密，还蓄着黑胡子，但渐渐变得皮肤苍白，与日消瘦。

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Time out of the rat race on the black sands of Perissa beach on the east coast of Santorini island.

在圣托里尼岛东岸的佩里萨黑沙海滩享受远离都市竞争的休假。

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The village of Oia on the northern tip of the island offers excellent, unobstructed sunset viewing and the east side of the island has black-sand beaches at popular resorts such as Kamari and Perissa.

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At the end of the dock, we looked out onto the black water of the Long Island Sound, shimmering under the moonlight.

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On the beach of an island in the Pacific, an island with black sand, hardened black lava, and nothing green growing but cactus, a British mariner with a knife in his hand was crouching before a giant tortoise.

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