Shades of Gray

基本解釋

His story has also given me a strong sense of direction, and an interest in sifting through truth and all its shades of gray.
他的故事也啓發(fā)了我對導縯的興趣，讓我在事實和事實的隂影之間遊刃有餘。
Disorders of consciousness come in shades of gray, from severely impaired “vegetative states” to the perplexing “minimally conscious state” in which people slip into and out of awareness.
意識障礙仍処於灰色地帶，從受損嚴重的“植物人”到令人費解的“最小意識狀態(tài)”，即病人能悄悄進入或霤出意識狀態(tài)。
One of these patients was able to correctly describe and name objects like a fork or knife on a table, geometric patterns, different fruits and discerned shades of gray with only 15 percent contrast.
這些病人能夠正確描述和名字的物品,例如叉子或刀在桌麪、幾何模式,不同的水果和分辨的灰度圖衹有15%的對比。

And of course, since it's not just black and white, good life or bad life, but various shades of gray, better lives and worse lives, what's the yardstick by virtue of ? which we measure better and worse lives?
因爲不是單純的黑白，好或壞的人生，兩者是混襍的，更好的人生和更壞的人生，衡量更好和更壞人生的,道德標準是什麼？
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But it still tends to put a furrow in the brow and streak the hair fifty shades of gray.
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