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Pitch-dark means completely dark — you cannot see a thing. It is almost the same as pitch-black. Though actually, pitch-black can also name a colour (hair, cloth, a cat), while pitch-dark is nearly always about light: a night, a room, a cave. Both come from the same picture: as dark as pitch, the black tar. Informal to neutral; very common in stories. You may also see it without the (pitch dark). It does not mean a little gloomy. It means no light at all.
一片漆黑
組成pitch (tar) + dark. Same picture as pitch-black: as dark as tar.
同家族的字
- pitchtar, the black sticky stuff that gives the comparison
- pitch-blackthe sister compound; use this one more when you mean the colour black, not only the lack of light
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pitch-darkadj
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Absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch.
- The assassin crept into the royal bedchamber only after it was pitch-dark.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。