the darkling

基本解释

A good many people never learn to sing until the darkling shadows fall. The fabled nightingale carols with his breast against a thorn.
有许多人都要在夜幕下降之后，才知道歌唱，传说夜莺在荆棘刺著胸口时鸣啼。
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At last, more than thirty million years hence, the huge red-hot 11)dome of the sun had come to 12)obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens.
最后，也就是距今三千多万年，太阳火红的大圆盘几乎将黑暗的天空遮蔽了十分之一。
Every evening it crept trustfully into its corner against the stone breast of the image, and the darkling eyes seemed to keep watch over its slumbers.
每晚，它慢慢爬回小窝，那里正对着石头雕像的胸口，小鸟心中满是信任与安全感。石头雕像那双漆黑的眼睛似乎一直都在看顾着它的酣眠。