"they fumbled around in total darkness"
"in the black of night"
"the widow wore black"
"black leather jackets"
"as black as coal"
"rich black soil"
"a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"
"black looks"
"black words"
"the future looked black"
"prospects were bleak"
"Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"
"took a dim view of things"
"black deeds"
"a black lie"
"his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"
"Darth Vader of the dark side"
"a dark purpose"
"dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"
"the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"
"the stock market crashed on Black Friday"
"a calamitous defeat"
"the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"
"such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"
"it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"
"a fateful error"
"a face black with fury"
"a black moonless night"
"through the pitch-black woods"
"it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
"black humor"
"a grim joke"
"grim laughter"
"fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
"black propaganda"
"the black economy pays no taxes"
"Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"
"an ignominious retreat"
"inglorious defeat"
"an opprobrious monument to human greed"
"a shameful display of cowardice"
"with feet black from playing outdoors"
"his shirt was black within an hour"
"The smoke blackened the ceiling"
"The ceiling blackened"
The plane dived suddenly, causing the pilot to black out.
飞机突然俯冲致使驾驶员昏了过去。
After the accident he blacked out and couldn't remember what happened.
事故之后,他失去了知觉,发生的事他记不起来了。
I'm sorry,I just blacked out for a few minutes.
对不起,我刚才晕过去了几分钟。
black sth ⇔ outThe stage was blacked out to hide a change of scenery.
舞台熄灯为的是不让观众看见换布景。
During the war, we had to make sure windows were carefully blacked out at night.
战争期间我们一定要在晚上把窗户关严,不能漏出光线。
The city was blacked out during the air raid.
空袭时全城实行灯火管制。
black sth ⇔ outYou had better black out that word.
你最好把那个字涂掉。