Normally planes don't go to the polar post from February to October because of the dangers of flying in the pitch-dark and cold.

通常情况下，飞机不会在2月到次年10月之间经行极地，因为在漆黑、寒冷的天气下飞行是很危险的。

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We were getting thrown out of it all night and somehow finding it again in the pitch dark. I'm not just talking about three or four flips; I'm talking about all night long for hours and hours.

筏子里根本没有压仓的重物，我们被不停的抛出来，然后又在一片漆黑中重新摸索到救生筏上，这样的颠簸不是三四次就完事了，而是整整持续了一个晚上。

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We were moving in the pitch dark.

我们就在一片漆黑中走的。

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This weekend, however, Villas-Boas looked a solitary figure as he crouched near the pitch while clad in the dark trenchcoat he reserves for storm-threatened days like this one.

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It was a brutally long float that started in the bright sunshine of the early morning and ended in the pitch-black dark at 10 PM.

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As it did at the off-season haunted house it mounted five months ago, this group demonstrates that it knows the power of just making you sit in a chair in the pitch dark.

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