The walls were painted in two shades of green.

这些墙壁被涂成了两种色调不同的绿色。

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However,these colors are intense pinks and purples or bright shades of green, yellow and blue.

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And of course, since it's not just black and white, good life or bad life, but various shades of gray, better lives and worse lives, what's the yardstick by virtue of ? which we measure better and worse lives?

因为不是单纯的黑白，好或坏的人生，两者是混杂的，更好的人生和更坏的人生，衡量更好和更坏人生的,道德标准是什么？

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This is a little paradise, a paradise on the verge of being lost as the shades lose their leaves.

这是一个微小的天堂，一个随着叶子的凋落,即将失去的天堂。

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And Christopher Bailey at Burberry Prorsum showed baseball jackets in electric shades of blues and purples.

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Roxanne takes two similar looking bracelets, both containing varying shades of light and dark green.

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As the sky lightens to delicate shades of pale blue and tangerine, we reach the peak.

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