During the dark ages, someone came in here and stole the emperor's ashes.

黑暗时代，有人闯进来偷走了大帝的骨灰。

This week Norman Lamb, the minister for care, said that services for young people are stuck in the dark ages.

本周医疗部长诺曼·兰布称，对于年轻人来讲，心理健康服务仍就停留在黑暗时期。

America is home to both Silicon Valley and Wall Street, yet it has long seemed in the dark ages on digital payments.

美国是硅谷和华尔街的故乡，但它似乎长期处于数字支付的黑暗时代。

So corporate bonds, the way that they change hands has been stuck in the dark ages for like, ever.

因此，公司债券及其转手方式一直处于黑暗时代。

So it sounds like maybe this whole industry is gonna get dragged kicking and screaming out of the dark ages.

所以听起来整个行业可能会被拖出黑暗时代。

BACK in the dark ages of British interior design, also known as the 1970s, any self-respecting builder knew what to do with a Georgian fireplace or panelled mahogany door.

上个世纪70年代正是英国室内设计产业的低潮时期。任何稍识时务的建筑商都清楚应当如何处理乔治时代的壁炉或是旧式红木厚板门。

I have always been in favor of a little theory: we must have Thought; else we shall be landed back in the dark ages.

我一直赞成一个小理论：我们必须有思想； 否则我们将回到黑暗时代。

Dropping the dark age from 30,000 years, down to a thousand, isn't actually about the preservation of knowledge, but the spread of it through religion and the reestablishment of commerce.

将黑暗时代从三万年缩短到一千年，实际上并不是为了保存知识，而是为了通过宗教传播知识并重建商业。

Back in the dark ages, this might not have mattered so much but in the modern, interconnected world planning international meetings happens 1,000s and 1,000s of times daily – shifting and inconsistent time zones isn’t doing netizens any favors.

在黑暗时代，这可能不是什么问题，但是在全球化的现代社会，国际会议安排每天都成千上万次的发生，而时间调整和时区不一致可没少给网友帮倒忙。