It's dark. The other, dark, in the sense of gloomy, not good, bad; this is a hard time, a poor time, a wretched time, a miserable time.

因此称之为黑暗,另一个理由是,黑暗从悲观的角度来说就是不好的,坏的,这是一个艰难的时代,一个穷苦的时代,一个不幸的时代,一个悲惨的时代

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He is full of a kind of understandable self-pity, and his speeches are in some ways more characteristic of the gloomy intellectual milieu that is reflected in Chekhov's text really than almost anyone else's.

他身上有种合理的顾影自怜感，而在契诃夫的原文里,他的言论差不多是,最典型地反映当时晦暗的社会思想环境的。

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