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At night it is an expanse of darkness with only a few pinpricks of light .

到了晚上，这里到处都是漆黑一片，只有零星的几点灯光。

But flooded coal mines , silted-up hydroelectric power stations and plunging oil imports mean it is increasingly difficult to keep powering the few luminous pinpricks visible from space .

但煤矿被洪水淹没、水电站受到淤塞以及石油进口量骤降，表明朝鲜越来越难以为从太空中零星可见的发光点继续供电。

That is why today , as in the 1950s , israel responds to pinpricks with punitive raids , each of which had the potential to flare into war .

这也就是为什么今天，以色列对这样的小打小闹给予了惩罚性的袭击回应，和1950年代的情况一样，这样的攻击都也有可能引发战争。

As the boat drifts back to sea , the retreating pinpricks of light along the shore resemble isolated outposts somewhere close to the end of the earth .

当船漂回大海时，沿岸倒退的针孔般的光点看似靠近地球尽头的孤立的前哨。

Waller reports that the resistance took ten thousand prisoners and distracted german reinforcements dispatched to normandy-though he adds that , over all , the french resistance amounted to " pinpricks . "

瓦勒报告称，抵抗队伍带了1万名，干扰了德国派往诺曼底的援军，虽然他补充道，总体来说法国的抵抗只能算是“针扎一样的小烦恼。”