The grey light was hard on the eyes.

昏暗的光线使眼睛很难受。

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He has worked hard in recent months to portray New York in a better light.

最近几个月他一直努力工作要从一个更好的角度描绘纽约。

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Most Roman pottery is light and smooth to touch and very tough, although, like all pottery, it shatters if dropped on a hard surface.

大多数罗马陶器轻巧而光滑，摸起来很硬，但像所有的陶器一样，如果掉在坚硬的物质上就会碎裂。

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In a statement, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup said the increase in force level would provide 11 Light Brigade with the resources they need to "sustain and build on the hard-won achievements of 19 Light Brigade over the summer - achievements of which the entire nation can and should be proud".

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An upper-middle class residential area in the early 1900s, Lapa later fell on hard times and became a red-light district in the 1930s, its taverns and brothels the stomping ground for a broad swath of Rio society - artists, politicians, bohemians, intellectuals and malandros (con men).

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And then she designed a device that uses light to kill hard-to-reach cancer cells while leaving the healthy ones untouched.

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