I usually use soft light, hard light or overlay.

我一般都选用柔光，强光或者叠加。

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Our understanding of others is based on observation and interpretation. Revisited in the hard light of freshly discovered deception, everything changes. Was it innocent, or was it planned?

我们对他人的了解是基于我们对他人的观察和理解。才被揭露的欺骗，发出阵阵强光，再次审视它，发觉一切都变了。欺骗到底是无意的，还是有所预谋？

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The grey light was hard on the eyes.

昏暗的光线使眼睛很难受。

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The new rules apply to "light alcohol"beverages, but not to wine, vodka or other hard liquors.

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Even though a hard drive spins at 7200 times per minute or even faster, that's relatively slower than the speed of light.

即使一个硬盘驱动器的转速达到每分钟7200次,甚至更快，仍然比光速慢。

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When he takes in something new a visitor, a thought, a passing car in the distance his eyes narrow, as if in hard light, and his lower jaw protrudes a bit.

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Here, in the smoking ruins of Pompeii, sometimes it's hard to see the light.

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It is hard to resist making light of the current vogue for apologies.

ECONOMIST: Mea culpa, and all that