They don't meet in the daytime; they meet either early before light, at dawn, or after dark, at night.

他们不在白天见面；他们要么在黎明前相遇，要么在黄昏后相遇。

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Peace again! – The exquisite hour before dawn, here at my old desk — seldom have I realized so keenly, appreciated so fully, these still, dark hours.

又是安静!黎明前的美妙的时间，就在我的旧书桌前——我从未如此敏锐地认识，如此心怀感激，这些仍旧黑暗的时间。

youdao

The saffron swan of dawn, slow swimming up the sky-river between the high roof-banks, bent her neck down through the dark air-water to look at him staggering below her, with his still smoking wick.

破晓的金色天鹅在高大屋顶之间的天河中缓缓游弋而来，弯下脖颈，穿过如水般的黑夜看着他在下面蹒跚而行，灯芯儿还冒着烟。

youdao

First,they don't meet in the daytime; they meet either early before light,at dawn, or after dark,at night.

首先，他们不在白天聚会;,要么在天亮前的黎明，要么在天黑后的夜晚。

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The best part of the day was getting up at dawn and going down to the cool gray kitchen, the dark garden waiting at the door like some curious beast strayed in from the fields, a casual attentiveness in the coming light that seemed ready to include me, as it did everything else, in a soft, foreign stillness.

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The remaining rodents were also exposed to a cycle, but the dark was replaced with a dim glow equivalent to the twilight at the first flickers of dawn.

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