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.
有許多人都要在夜幕下降之後，才知道歌唱，傳說夜鶯在荊棘刺著胸口時鳴啼。
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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.
最後，也就是距今三千多萬年，太陽火紅的大圓磐幾乎將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，它慢慢爬廻小窩，那裡正對著石頭雕像的胸口，小鳥心中滿是信任與安全感。石頭雕像那雙漆黑的眼睛似乎一直都在看顧著它的酣眠。