The sky may be solid and convincing, but the stars look pale and insipid … beside the livid glare of streetlamps reflected in water.

天空可能会被凝固，星星将看起来苍白和无趣… … 与青灰色强光在水中倒影相比。

The lamps are still burning up and down the long street.

长长道，依然到处亮着。

The main goal is to lower energy consumption when the light is not needed.

主要目标是当不需要点亮时候降低能源消耗。

The gas street lamps glowed dully, blobs of yellow in the fog.

暗淡地照着，像雾中一些昏黄斑点似。

The little prince was not able to reach any explanation of the use of a street lamp and a lamplighter, somewhere in the heavens, on a planet, which had no people, and not one house.

一盏和一个点人用途，小王子没法想到任何解释，在天某处，在一个没有人没有房子星球。

I figured our chances were better there because there aren't any streetlights.

我知道我们朝那边跑生还概率较大，因为那里没有。

Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere.

玛琳，下独自起舞人，在某个地方唱着同一首歌。

Mr. Street Lamp, we heard that you will retire from your job.

先生，我们听说要退休了。

He stopped for a moment and looked back and saw in the reflection from the street light the great tail of the fish standing up well behind the skiff's stern.

他停了一会儿，回头一望，在反光中，看见那鱼大尾巴直竖在小船船梢后边。

Outside the streetlights were shining through the branches of the tree.

外面，透过树枝照耀着。

The streetlights out front are either broken or missing.

外面也要么坏了 要么丢了。

The street light shone on the brass number on his collar.

照在他那领章铜号码。

" Water, " I gasped. " I'm not made for martinis. I'm so drunk."

我们顺着暗巷散步，正如但丁作品里两个游魂，一个年轻，一个年长。天气依旧炎热，我看见光芒照在奥利弗额头。我们往鸦雀无声小巷深处走，然后进入另一条，仿佛是被拽入了虚幻又闷热精灵巷弄，这些巷弄似乎引领着在恍惚又惊讶状态下进入一个别样地下王国。我只能听见小巷里猫叫和附近流水飞溅声音。可能是大理石喷泉，或罗马多到数不清、随处可见市设饮水泉。“水… … ”我气喘吁吁地说，“马提尼不适合我，我醉得很厉害。”

In an effort to reduce crime rates back in the 1600s, King Louis XIV ordered nearly 3,000 street lanterns to be illuminated in the streets of Paris, giving it the title City of Light.

17世纪初期，为了减少犯罪率，路易十四下令在巴黎头点亮了近 3000 盏，因而被称为光之城。

He put them on and his bedroom came into clearer focus, lit by a faint, misty orange light that was filtering through the curtains from the street lamp outside the window.

他戴眼镜，卧室里景物慢慢变得清晰起来，窗外光透过窗帘，给卧室笼罩了一层朦朦胧胧橙红色柔光。

This is light from street lamps, shopping centers, or wherever, where the light gets blasted up into the sky instead of toward the ground.

即指是那些来自、购物中心或其他地方光，它们都射向了天空而不是地面。

There's an old joke about a man who's had too much to drink looking for his keys under a streetlight.

有一个经典笑话是关于一个喝多了人在下找他钥匙。

I could see in the distance, two intersections down, streetlamps, cars, and more pedestrians, but they were all too far away.

我能看见在远处两个十字路口外地方，有，有车流，还有更多行人，但那些都太远了。

And so if you drive around Havana at the moment, I have not seen any street lights that are working.

如果现在在哈瓦那头兜风，看不见亮着。

Then what causes this light pollution, Susan? Is it just badly positioned streetlights that shine up into the sky?

那么，苏珊，是什么导致了这种光污染？仅仅是照射到天空位置不当吗？