The lightning flash lasted a split second, and then disappeared.

闪电一闪而后就消失了。

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In the lightning flash of a moment I have seen the immensity of your creation in my life-creation through many a death from world to world.

在雷电闪烁的瞬间，我在我的生命中看到了你巨大的创造力——一种经历多次生死轮回，从一个世界到另一个世界的创造力。

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There was a flash of lightning and the house was plunged into darkness.

雷电闪过，房子陷入一片黑暗之中。

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The power went out Friday around midnight after a large green lightning flash in the driving snow that plunged us into darkness.

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Somewhere in these flashing mirrors, we mistake the flash-lit celebrity, the lightning-strike story, for confirmed reality.

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In the end the blue cartoonish blob, with a gaping mouth, different coloured eyelid, lightning flash eyebrows and red training shoes, could certainly not have been accused of being characteristically Georgian and justified its working title of Whatizit.

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