Their sparsely furnished, small cells were generally cold and drafty and allowed for little external stimuli-the Windows were whitewashed and a dim light bulb burned constantly.

他们狭小的牢房里没有什么家具，凉风阵阵，通常总是很冷，很少能接触到外部刺激——窗户被刷上了白灰，牢房里总点着一只暗淡的灯泡。

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The N200's light is only 13.5 lumens on the high setting (a 60-watt incandescent bulb is 850 lumens). That's very dim, but it's comparable to a kerosene lamp.

一盏N200灯光亮最高能达到13.5流明(一只普通的60 W白炽灯有850流明)，虽然有点暗，但跟煤油灯比起来还是绰绰有余的。

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"This light is too dim for me to read by. Don't we have a brighter bulb some where" : said the elderly man.

“这盏灯灯光太暗，不适合读书。我们不是还有一个亮点的灯泡放在哪个地方吗”，老人说道。

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Besides being tweakable to match the spectrum of a light-bulb, dye-based cells also work well in dim or diffuse light of the sort often found indoors.

ECONOMIST: A new type of cell may bring ��solar�� energy indoors