爱因斯坦抓住了问题的实质，他写道：“数十年黑暗中对真理的探索，只可意会不可言传的体验”。

Einstein captured it best when he wrote, "the years of anxious searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express."

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然而差不多十年之后，非洲却没有像传说中的那样坠入黑暗的深渊。

A decade later, however, Africa has outgrown the gloom and doom.

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或许是一种宽慰感：在过去黑暗的数十年间印度人口增长迅猛，经济增长缓慢，贫穷根深蒂固，现在这一切终于一去不复返了。

Perhaps, relief: that the dark decades of soaring population growth, inching economic growth and intractable poverty, are finally over.

youdao

Well, it's around 750, a great number of the changes that moved the Greeks away from the Dark Age kind of society to the full scale polis begin.

在大约公元前七百五十年,发生了许多变化,这些变化将希腊从黑暗时代的社会形态中拽出,进而开始了全面的城邦社会

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