| 1 | It was a black night, no moon, but I saw four pieces of white debris not far away from me. | |
| 2 | On another occasion, I was living in a villa in the suburbs, alone with a dog, a couple of cats and their kittens, all black. | |
| 3 | 一个工人开玩笑说，他本来想把选票投给我，可是想了一下之后又准备把选票投给一个更有常识的人，因为我居然在这个漆黑一片、寒冷的雨天做竞选宣传。 One man joked that he had intended to vote for me, but was having second thoughts about voting for someone with no better sense than to campaign in the dark in a cold rain. | |
| 4 | Because at that height you can see the blackness of space and the curvature of the earth. | |
| 5 | On many a dark night the vision of that round slip of sky with stars has comforted me. |
