黯淡的

I noticed the darker paint where our old mezuzah used to be.

门那块颜色黯淡的漆，正是我们以前贴平安符的地方呀！

In the pale light of the tunnel, 30-foot fossil traces of lycopsid gleam slickly in the shale roof like alligator skins.

它们看起来像一棵棵巨型的芦笋。隧道内黯淡的灯光下，页岩顶部30英尺长的石松化石遗迹就像鳄鱼皮般发出柔滑的光亮。

Working on a comparable timescale, SIM should provide positional information for a subsample of faint stars, thereby probing the most tenuous star streams.

此同时，SIM应能提供黯淡恒星次级样本的位置资讯，从而侦测最稀薄的恒星流。

And this was the fifties, the grayest, bleakest, most blinkered and culturally repressive period in the entire second half of the twentieth century, especially in small-town America.

再说，那可是五十年代啊。整个二十世纪后半期，这是最阴郁，最黯淡，最盲目的时期，也是文化最压抑的时期。美国的生活更是如此。