热带色彩在我们北方暗淡的光线下可能显得有点刺目。Tropical colours may look rather harsh in our dull northern light.他跟着她走进光线暗淡的厨房。He followed her into a dimly lit kitchen.余烬仍在炉膛里发出暗淡的光。The embers still glowed in the hearth....

“暗淡的”的英语可以翻译为：dim，pale，[计] dimmed，pallid，faint ...