It was
dark inside.
屋里很暗.
All people are sleeping in the
dark.
所有人都在夜里睡觉。
The world is
dark, and selfish, and cruel.
这个世界又黑暗又自私又残忍。
We work in the
dark,to serve the light.
我们躬耕于黑暗，却侍奉于光明。
They groped in the
dark.
他们在黑暗中摸索。
Designed to captivate young collectors and millennials, Pop Mart released a series of limited-edition figurines, including Skullpanda Dark Maid, Labubu Shepherd, Kubo King of the White Deer, and Pucky the Ghost at the new stores to offer a better shopping experience for customers.
为了吸引年轻收藏家和千禧一代，Pop Mart在新店推出了一系列限量版小雕像，包括Skullpanda Dark Maid、Labubu Shepherd、Kubo King of the White Deer和Pucky the Ghost，为顾客提供更好的购物体验。
Her favorite flavor in the store is pistachio dark.
她在店里最喜欢的口味是深色开心果。
A smart factory of Chinese kitchen and bathroom products brand Jomoo was certificated as the world's first "eco-friendly dark factory" on Friday.
周五，中国厨卫产品品牌Jomoo的一家智能工厂被认证为世界上第一家“环保黑暗工厂”。
Based on this, the China Energy Conservation Association released for the first time the assessment of the eco-friendly dark factory based on the situation in China.
基于此，中国节能协会首次发布了基于中国国情的环保黑暗工厂评估报告。
After rigorous inspections by the association and CTI Certification, as well as in-depth investigations by a group of global experts, the Jomoo factory was selected to be the world's first certified "eco-friendly dark factory".
经过协会和CTI认证的严格检查，以及一组全球专家的深入调查，Jomoo工厂被选为世界上第一家获得认证的“环保黑暗工厂”。
Industry insiders said that being selected as the first certified "eco-friendly dark factory" is another milestone for Jomoo, on its digital and green transformation journey.
业内人士表示，被选为首个获得认证的“环保黑暗工厂”是Jomoo在数字化和绿色转型之旅中的又一个里程碑。
The exterior screen goes dark when a user is fully immersed in a virtual world.
当用户完全沉浸在虚拟世界中时，外部屏幕会变暗。
The brand has developed its signature product, a single-origin 69 percent dark chocolate, in Davao, a 100-year-old traditional cocoa-growing region in the Philippines, to support local farmers and communities.
该品牌在菲律宾有100年历史的传统可可种植区达沃开发了其标志性产品，即69%的单一产地黑巧克力，以支持当地农民和社区。
The company has launched dozens of healthy snacks in recent years, such as sugar-free sachima, sugar-free lollipops and sugar-free dark chocolate.
近年来，该公司推出了数十种健康零食，如无糖香袋、无糖棒棒糖和无糖黑巧克力。
The colors of the oils range from dark to light.
这些油的颜色从深到浅不等。
Luo Zuoxian, head of intelligence and research at the Sinopec Economics and Development Research Institute, said while renewable energy is the fastest-growing energy source in the country, it is less reliable compared with fossil fuels, as the world can be dark at any given time and wind does not blow regularly, creating similar intermittency issues.
中石化经济发展研究院情报与研究负责人罗佐贤表示，虽然可再生能源是中国增长最快的能源，但与化石燃料相比，它的可靠性较差，因为世界在任何时候都可能是黑暗的，风也不会定期吹，这也会产生类似的间歇性问题。
Group sales revenue rose 30 percent y-o-y to 40b yuan in first nine months of yearWhile the COVID-19 pandemic has made many manufacturers uneasy about staying afloat since last year, the dark cloud has a silver lining in that riding the wave of new formats in foreign trade through big data and tools such as online exhibitions and digital payments have empowered export-oriented companies to survive and even post robust growth.
It also pledged to showcase breakthrough technology in skincare, such as an ingredient called Luminous630 which helps fade dark spots and brighten skin, as well as virtual reality-backed experiences and the UV Camera.
Ralph's Coffee in Beijing employs dark green as the main color of its interior design, and it is matched with white walls and wooden decor.
The Harley Owners Group (HOG) carried out "Dark Ride" in as many as 13 major cities across India, including Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru as a mark of their protest against the company's pullout from the country.
With US President Donald Trump proposing a ban on TikTok, critics said the move will not solve "security risks", while American values could be challenged if the popular app actually goes dark.
The company is working to attract video lovers with its latest 5G handsets which feature anti-shaking cameras and the ability to shoot videos in dark conditions.
The new models, named as Reno 4 series, are video-centric, placing greater emphasis on their ability to shoot in dark conditions via an ultra night video mode and their wide lens' capability to produce stabilized clips, thanks to a function called ultra steady video 3.0, Oppo said.
Daily Dark Chocolate, a startup brand in China, said as long as the disease ends in the summer, it would have a limited impact on the company this year, it said.
Ferrero also launched the CIIE Mon Cheri, a combination of crunchy dark chocolate, juicy cherry and liqueur first introduced in Europe in 1956.
Compromised accounts are also sold, traded or harvested for various types of personal information, and they are often available for purchase in bulk on the Dark Web, according to the latest Akamai research.
He is a dark horse among the newcomers.
Reid told Xinhua that he was on FGA Moraine facility's first employment list, and has witnessed the plant's whole evolution from "an open factory that is dark, dirty and had not an equipment in it all the way to what we have now: a state of the art, clean, well-lit factory.
The company touts the 6-Series' higher contrast ratio between light and dark areas and Dolby Vision's greater brightness and fuller palette of rich and detailed colors.
The P20 Pro is embedded with better sensors and AI technologies so that customers can take photos even when it is dark and can capture what the company claims are "incredible" details at a distance.
The Blade V9 will cost between 269 euros and 299 euros and contains a camera which allows for clearer shots in the dark.
"The store closings will begin in February and the majority of locations identified for closure, which include Babies R Us stores, will go dark by mid--April.
During the interview in Beijing, the silver-haired executive looked sharp in a dark suit over a striped shirt, with his calm demeanor and amiability offering a perfect contrast.
For unlike other couriers, he stepped out of an electric car dressed in a black suit, wearing a white shirt with a dark gray tie.
According to a release by the Indonesian government in December, with the country's power system beyond reach of its remote regions, 2,519 villages are still are living in the dark without power supply.
The surface of the sea was quiet and smooth at sunrise with boats in the water embracing a golden sunshine which glowed against the background of the dark coast, as masses of clouds floated over the mountains.
Thailand and Turkey have become two dark horses in terms of mobile iOS gaming, thanks to the two uncontested markets' high install volume and users' relatively high willingness to pay, the report claimed.
But currently, only black tea, green tea, oolong tea, and dark tea are listed as tariff items.
Silver lining of China's recovery and growth offers hope amid dark clouds worldwideA confluence of high inflation, low growth and rising financial fragility may be painting a gloomy picture of the world, but the steady recovery of China's economy is proving to be a silver lining, experts said.
- The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), taking effect on Saturday, shines rays of hope through the dark clouds of unilateralism and protectionism.
The dark clouds that appeared to be surrounding A shares for almost two months have a silver lining now, in the form of stocks of new energy-related companies that are beginning to make a difference, market mavens said on Friday.
Technology breakthroughs such as its innovative ingredient Luminous 630, which can reduce dark spots, and UV camera will comprise another major highlight.
The industry, however, discovered the dark cloud has a silver lining after all: rapid growth of airfreight on the back of huge demand to keep goods, especially medical supplies and essential commodities, moving, no matter what.
Gadgets, Christmas goods and machines … all are par for China's cross-border e-commerce courseThe COVID-19 pandemic may have savaged many a business, but the dark cloud has a silver lining: resurgent foreign trade riding the wave of new formats and models like cross-border e-commerce, new technologies like big data, and tools like digital payments and online exhibitions－all necessitated by curbs on travel and transport, and measures like social distancing.
Higher wages for additional work may appear as the silver lining of the dark cloud of COVID-19, which has affected many companies' operations and people's daily lives, and revealed many weaknesses in the global supply chain, like limited shipping capacity and shutdowns of both plants and ports across the world.
As the new year gets underway, it is worth watching to see whether such "dark horse" export performance continues into 2021, and how China's foreign-trade landscape evolves.
Reuters said in a recent analysis that in a global economy hit hard by COVID-19, China's foreign trade in 2020 can be described as a "dark horse", as it shouldered the responsibility for filling the gaps in global industrial chains.
Signed at a time when a coronavirus-triggered recession looms large globally, the RCEP shines rays of hope through the dark clouds of global trade uncertainty, proving to the world that openness and cooperation are a sure path toward common prosperity.
In terms of the proportion of R&D investment in GDP, Xi'an was the dark horse with the figure reaching 5.2 percent, only behind Beijing's 6.31 percent.
Liu Aihua, a spokeswoman for the NBS, said that China's retail industry has stepped out of the dark shadow of the pandemic and is demonstrating a recovery.
In addition to the digital twin platform, other hot topics at the exhibition included the dark factory and unmanned mining.
Zhao Wenzhi, president of GZL International Travel Service Ltd. , located in south China's Guangdong Province, said that tourists' demand for high-end outbound tourism is increasing, and some quality small-group routes with scarce tourism elements are expected to become dark horses over the "golden week.
"The bulk procurement program will promote the development of domestic dental implant brands, as it offers homegrown companies a good window period, during which two to three dark horses are expected to stand out," said Lyu Sang, a strategy consultant of Denfac, an oral medical device research and development enterprise based in Wuxi, Jiangsu province.
The USGBC report found that the warehouse logistics category turned out to be a dark horse in the green building industry in China, as 224 new LEED registrations in the warehouse logistics sector were reported last year, accounting for nearly 50 percent of the sector's total in China.
Traditionally home to products like oolong tea, Longjing (Dragon Well) tea and Xinyang Maojian tea, the country is, however, slowly seeing consumer preferences and consumption patterns evolve in favor of the dark beverage.
"They seldom took shower after they turned 70 because the bathroom was dark and slippery and they were afraid of getting injured," he said.
For Tan and many other residents of Liubao, a township in the city of Wuzhou in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, it seems only natural that the dark, or fermented, tea and its traditions, heritage and time-tested health benefits will continue to spread far and wide.
The love song Dark Plum Jam by Chinese singer Li Ronghao has gone viral recently, triggering a wave of purchases of related products and bringing sweet gains to jam makers nationwide.
Li's song has made "dark plum jam" one of the top 10 searched phrases on e-commerce platform Taobao, with the number of searches surging 200-fold in the first week of the song's debut, with sales of apple and blueberry jam products on the platform surging 100 percent year-on-year.
Currently, on Taobao, the price of a jar of dark plum jam ranges from 20 yuan ($2.9) to 140 yuan, with many such products carrying tags cueing Li's song, which offers a "taste of love".
Wu said: "New flavors, such as dark plum, are a good way to reach more consumers.
- Last October, renowned Hong Kong director and comedian Stephen Chow said in his first social media post that he is "seeking outstanding Web3 talent in the dark.
Once a niche product reserved for border trade, Chinese dark tea is now making another long and bumpy journey toward new-style beverage shops, which are the darling of the young sipping class.
Dark tea, or fermented tea, has a long history of being compressed into tea cakes and carried on horseback to northwestern hinderlands and foreign countries, winning it the sobriquet "border tea" or "export tea.
"As the fashion of new-style tea brews swept across China, dark tea found new clients in big cities: the many bubble tea shops vying for the hearts of young urbanites with innovative recipes.
In Changsha, the glitzy capital of Hunan, tea shops mix dark tea with light cream and pecans and advertise its health-enhancing effects, such as lowering cholesterol levels.
"I like bubble tea but don't want to get fat, so I'm attracted to the 'fat-scraping' effect of dark tea, as well as its special taste," said Peng Hongzhi, a 37-year-old Changsha resident and fan of dark tea-based bubble tea.
Peng notes dark tea's bitter taste and special aroma, which have long made the tea an outlier in China's mainstream tea market.
Sexy Tea, a popular tea brand also known as Modern China Tea Shop, said it began to develop dark tea-based beverages in 2019, in a bid to diversify its portfolio of green, black and oolong teas.
The company selected dark tea categories with richer flavors and added cream to improve the taste.
"Dark tea has a strong personality.
Liu Yang, founder of Chaermasi Chinese Dark Tea, is one of the young entrepreneurs working to unleash the market potentials of dark tea, which remains a niche product among young consumers.
"We wish to introduce dark tea into the lives of young Chinese in a more fashionable manner," said Liu, who has opened four outlets using dark tea leaves to make bubble tea and fruit tea.
Demands for more diverse and unconventional brews have also opened opportunities for niche categories like dark tea.
A pub-like tea house in Changsha said it once introduced cakes made from dark tea, but they were eventually taken off the shelves due to a lukewarm response from clients.
Li Shengfu, a master of making Anhua Dark Tea, is optimistic about the market prospects of dark tea's synergy with pastries and popular beverages.
"The dark tea's unique fragrance and the properties of fermented tea are suitable for secondary processing.
It will take some time, but dark tea derivatives will surely be loved by more people," said Li.
Italian confectionery maker Ferrero made a foray into the dark chocolate segment last year, a particularly dynamic and promising segment of the China market.
"Renewable energy is less reliable than fossil fuels because the world can be dark at any given time and wind does not blow regularly, creating similar intermittency issues, and coal-fired power in these provinces will help avoid negative impacts for UHV power lines in frequency and voltage caused by the intermittency of renewable energy.
"Hainan has been a lighthouse for the global duty-free and travel retail industry during a very dark and difficult period.
COVID has hurt tourism and related sectors badly and caused job losses, but there's a silver lining to that dark cloud: micro-tourism or micro-vacations.
That global dark cloud, however, found a silver lining in China where a series of favorable policies reversed the sagging fortunes of duty-free shops at airports.
With vaccination programs being rolled out in most destinations worldwide (in some places faster than others), we're finally seeing some glimmers of hope that the hospitality industry is emerging from the dark shadows cast on it by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dryers have become the biggest dark horse in white goods market, with market demand expanding significantly and retail sales increasing by 87.4 percent year-on-year.
Much of Jiangsu's industry is far from the coal-fired "dark satanic mills" Blake described in his poem, which was written in the 1800s as England first grappled with the economic, environmental and societal consequences of the early stages of the industrial revolution.
Stimulated by increasing offerings and demand, more families are opting to head to theme parks after dark," said Zheng Fang, senior sales director of Haichang Ocean Park.
Winters would be transformed from dull, dark months into the year's most anticipated season with indoor and outdoor fun activities galore.
There seems a touch of dark humor in that sardonic quip.
Now, when Yang is selecting avocados in the supermarket, she pinches them to test for softness, and only buys those with dark green skins.
More efforts are needed to strengthen the supervision over the rare earth industry, severely crack down on violations of laws or regulations, cut off the dark chain, tighten export controls, and establish a review mechanism that keeps track of whole processes of rare earth exports, experts noted.
Against that backdrop, more efforts are needed to strengthen the supervision over the rare-earths industry, severely crack down on violations of laws or regulations, cut off the dark chain, tighten exports controls, establish a review mechanism that keep track of whole processes of rare earth exports, experts noted.
The huge demand for food delivery in China has led to the fast development of online food ordering shops, including so-called ghost restaurants or dark kitchens, which only provide delivery business.
The dark kitchens are said to be becoming ever more appealing compared to the high investment cost of traditional brick-and-mortar restaurants.
"My dark skin isn't always the easiest to match, so I thought I would give it a go," said Xu Fan, a 27-year-old postgraduate student in Shanghai, who visited the brand's stand during last year's China International Import Expo, where she got to create a foundation color specifically for her skin tone.
Every night when I get home from work at about 10 pm and it's all dark outside, I feel lonely until the fluffy little creature head-butts my face, rubs against my leg, and purrs at me.
Although he is only 28, Qian, a geologist who wears dark glasses and sports a flat haircut, has been studying the moon for nearly a decade.
"The probe will cast a dark cloud over the EV sector in the world and bring negative impacts to the global vision of carbon neutrality, it said.
Such failure may increase the risk of a collision in dark conditions, said the statement.
The model, called the EX90, features eight cameras, five radars, 16 ultrasonic sensors, and a lidar sensor, which can detect pedestrians 250 meters away or a dark tire on a black road 120 meters ahead.
Before Niutron, Li founded Niu Technologies in 2015, which soon became a dark horse in the two-wheeled electric scooter industry.
As the biggest dark horse of the luxury brands, China's iconic sedan brand Hongqi, meaning "red flag," registered a new sales record in 2020, with the number of vehicles manufactured and sold both exceeding 200,000 units.
The upgraded new products will come in a new color - dark fire - and the latest autonomous driving assistant system, or ADAS.
The BMW 3 Series M Sport Dark Edition made its China premiere with a bolder sporty exterior design, refined racing style interior, and more high-technology equipment.
The Dark Edition brings black mirror caps, a black M performance kidney grille, dark front and rear lights, dark wheel rims, sport seats and a M Sport Package steering wheel as standard.