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AT FIRST glance, the chances of peace between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land look dimmer than ever.
乍看上去，在圣地的阿拉伯人和猶太人之間的和平機(jī)會比以往更加黯淡。
Plug your tabletop lamp into a dimmer instead of the wall socket, and you can brighten and dim at the push of a button.
直接把你的臺燈插到調(diào)光器上，不用非得插到墻上的插座里，這樣你就能通過按鈕來控制它的亮暗。
Though English literature written by the British suffices as an eternal and shining canon of literature, it would be nonetheless dimmer without the considerable talents of its Irish contributors.
盡管英國人寫的英語文學(xué)足以當(dāng)作永久且閃亮的文學(xué)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，但若沒有愛爾蘭這些人才的眾多貢獻(xiàn)，它將因而大為遜色吧。

I've the--Everything's growing greyer and dimmer.
一切都變得混沌暗淡。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

The Ube dimmer replaces standard wall switches to control incandescent, LED and CFL lights.
ENGADGET: Ube WiFi Smart Dimmer to receive customized multitouch gesture control
Looks like the prospects for an energy bill this year are getting a lot dimmer.
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Ube's dimmer can be programmed to work with a variety of other IP based home devices as well.
ENGADGET: Ube WiFi Smart Dimmer to receive customized multitouch gesture control

a device for changing the brightness of an electric light, often combined with a switch to turn the light on and off

A dimmer or a dimmer switch is a switch that allows you to gradually change the brightness of an electric light.