Leavitt studied stars that get brighter and dimmer over time.

莱维特研究的是随着时间的推移而变亮或变暗的恒星。

And their switch that triggers inflammation kind of has a permanent dimmer.

他们触发炎症的开关有一个永久性的调节器。

I'm sure they'll ship one, but the idea here is that OLED is a little bit dimmer than it needs to be because it has to shine the light through a filter.

我确信他们未来会推出这款产品，但是这个概念需要的OLED要暗一些，因为它必须透过一个滤光片。

The universe becomes dimmer and dimmer, illuminated only by smaller red and white dwarfs.

宇宙会变得越来越暗淡，仅由较小的红矮星和白矮星照亮（烧尽的太阳灰渣）。

First, it means more overall sunlight is scattered, making the sun appear dimmer.

首先，这意味着更多的阳光被分散了，使得太阳变得黯淡。

Soon, we would start to notice our daylight becoming dimmer.

，我们就会开始注意到，我们的日光越来越暗。

It appears that the President's chances grow dimmer day by day.

看来总统的机会日益渺茫。

The only thing he had less to do with than dinner was the dimmer.

晚饭也不是他做的 更离谱的是调光器他压根就没碰。

It seemed like KIC 8462852 was getting dimmer, and nobody really understood why.

KIC 8462852 看上去好像变得越来越暗，却无人知晓其中缘由。

Today, airstrikes and missile attacks on hospitals and clinics made those prospects even dimmer.

而今天医院和诊所遭遇的空袭和导弹袭击使停火协议的前景更加暗淡。

The further away it is, the dimmer it will appear in our telescopes.

距离越远，在望远镜里就会显得越暗淡。

By comparing the brightness as seen here on Earth with how bright we know each of them should be, we can work out how far away each supernova is. The dimmer its light, the farther away it is.

通过对比我们在地球上看到的亮度和它们应有的亮度，我们可以计算出每个超新星的距离。光线越暗，距离越远。

Since white dwarfs are so tiny compared to your average star, they don't give off very much light, and continue to slowly get dimmer and colder over billions of years.

由于白矮星与普通恒星相比太小了，它们不会发出太多的光，并且在数十亿年的时间里继续慢慢变暗和变冷。

Getting sufficient contrast between bright daylight and dimmer nighttime light is essential for synchronizing your circadian rhythm, and nothing establishes this contrast better than sunlight.

在明亮的日光和暗淡的夜间光线之间获得足够的对比是校准你的生物钟所必不可少的，而光照是最好的方式。

It was late in the afternoon by now, and the living room, which got little natural light at the best of times, was growing dimmer by degrees.

此刻已经是下午晚些时候，而客厅（在最好的时候都少有自然光线），正在逐渐变得更加昏暗。

Its parent star is similar to the sun, again unlike those of the other two candidates, both of which orbit cooler, dimmer stars.

它的母恒星和太阳相似，这一点又和另外两个候选行星不一样，另外两颗候选行星都围绕着又冷又暗的恒星运转。

They pulse brighter and dimmer in a predictable pattern, which allows astronomers to determine how far they are from us—about 300,000 light years.

在一种可预测的模式中，它们一亮一暗的节奏使得天文学家能够确定它们距离我们究竟有多远—约30万光年。

An air of desperation is growing in Turkey and Syria tonight, as the chance of finding earthquake survivors grows dimmer by the hour.

今晚，在土耳其和叙利亚，绝望的氛围越来越浓，因为 找到地震幸存者的机会一小时比一小时渺茫。

Here's the challenge astronomers faced: If one star is dimmer than another, is it farther away?

一颗星球比另一颗更加暗淡，它是不是距离我们就更远呢？

The light given off by dying stars, exploding stars, stars that literally pulse, get brighter and dimmer over time.

濒临消逝的恒星发出的光、爆炸的恒星发出的光，这些恒星会随着时间的推移而脉动，变得越来越亮，越来越暗。