It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

  • -- Eleanor Roosevelt 埃莉诺·罗斯福

与其诅咒黑暗,不如燃起蜡烛。

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We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

我们常常想当然地认为,当我们打开电灯开关时,我们的灯就会亮起来,但事实是,我们的可靠性标准和输电网络的当前状态让我们都容易受到停电的影响。

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

我模模糊糊地想,这一切是否会就此结束,我是否会像掀开一床被子一样,拉起今晚的黑暗,永远死去,永远平静。

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

神是应当称颂的。因为有信心的人,在黑暗中得着亮光,在患难中得着安慰。

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

黑暗中没有任何东西是在灯亮着的时候不存在的。

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

我们被富足的诅咒剥光了衣服。