The sun had just set, the sky moving from orange to dark-gray.

太阳业已落下，天空从橘黄色化为铅灰色。

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The sky looked so gray, the dark cloud covered the sun.

天空看上去如此灰暗，厚重的云层遮蔽了太阳。

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The woods were dark, but there was a gray light on the snowy path, and in the sky there were a few faint stars.

森林里黑漆漆一片，但白雪覆盖的小径上却笼罩着一片灰蒙蒙的光。

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The sky was gray near the tops of the mountains, as gray as a dark day in winter.

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The sky would go gray, with dark clouds building on the horizon.

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Eerier yet is Robert Moskowitz's "Skyscraper, " from 1998, which presciently depicts the matching behemoths as two solid-black fields of color dark shadows set against a bleakly gray sky.

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