It was wonderful to have them here just a year after my father was diagnosed with bladder cancer and things looked bleak.
我父亲一年前被诊断出患有膀胱癌，那时候一切似乎都黯淡无光。现在他能来这里真是太好了。It's a shame, even if it is inevitable, to have all this boil down to one final. Especially a final that was as underwhelming as that.
虽然是必然的，然而将这一切归总到一场决赛却是令人遗憾的，尤其是这样一场黯淡无光的决赛。Nearly a year later, despite billions of dollars in international aid pouring into the country, the prospects for most Haitians look bleak.
将近一年以后，尽管数十亿美元的援助被注入这个国家，但绝大多数海地人的前景依然黯淡无光。We passed through the benighted fishermen's shanty towns lining the shore. People came out to wave.
我们经过黯淡无光，一路沿着海岸线分布的渔民棚屋区。Imagine a world where flowers would not exist: it would be really toneless and sad, don't you agree?
要是一个世界没有了花，那将会多么死气沉沉、黯淡无光，不是吗？Some added that Li's absence during the award ceremony resulted in her lackluster performance on the list.
还有人说李宇春没有出席颁奖典礼才导致了她在名单上的黯淡无光。Tao Tao never-failing river reflects a turn pale face intense darkness without light, the eyes do not see past the wonderful?
淘淘不尽的江水里映照着一张苍白失色的脸，那黯淡无光的秋水里怎么不见往日的精彩？She photographs them over a period of two weeks while their shapes change as the bacteria stop glowing and begin to dim and die.
这一幅图保存了两个星期，后来由于细菌开始死亡，并且变得黯淡无光了，她才不得不用相机拍下来。The pictures in question also show Earth, which looks very bright. It is so bright that it outshines the stars making them look invisible.
有争议的那些画面上还可以看到地球，而它显得十分明亮。相比之下，其他星星就显得黯淡无光，因而不是很容易被发现了。