Their name comes from the word 'piebald', which means 'covered in patches of light and dark colors'.

它们的名字来自“花斑”这个词，意思是全身覆盖浅色和深色斑点。

Some of the streetlamps were broken; the two women were running between patches of light and deep darkness.

有几盏路灯已经坏了，两个奔跑的女人时而被灯光照亮，时而被黑暗笼罩。

It is like a square patch of light.

它就像一个方形的光斑。

One layer of neurons will detect simple features such as patches of light or dark.

一层神经元将检测简单的特征，例如亮斑或暗斑。

The passage was dark save that one window halfway along it threw a patch of light.

通道是黑暗的， 只有中间的一扇窗户投射出一片光亮。

The soft moonlight came down through the treetops and made patches of light and shade on the road ahead.

柔和的月光透过树梢洒落下来，在前方的道路上洒下斑驳的光影。

See, that misty patch of light is not a cloud in the sky, it's not even gas and dust in our galaxy, that is another galaxy.

那一团朦胧的光斑可不是天上的云彩，也不是我们星系中的气体或者尘埃，这是另一个星系。

He stretched his lithe young muscles, the moonlight filtering through the foliage from above dappling his brown skin with little patches of light.

他伸展着柔软的年轻肌肉， 月光从上方透过树叶， 在他棕色的皮肤上洒下斑驳的光斑。

The young men stepped into the patch of light; Shubin looked into the shop, stopped short, and cried 'Annushka! ' The girl turned round quickly.

年轻人走进光斑； 舒宾往店里看了看， 突然停了下来， 叫道：“Annushka！ ” 女孩迅速转身。

She was silent. She turned her face up to him, pale under the wisps and patches of light that trailed in like moonshine through a foliage.

她沉默了。她把脸转向他，在月光透过树叶照进来的一缕缕光影下显得苍白。

Suddenly it would make its appearance again and brilliant patches of light would flash out once more through the branches, crossing and recrossing, a tangled pattern of light and shade.

突然它又出现了，灿烂的光斑从树枝间再次闪现，交错交错，光影交错。

Lucy looked very hard between the trees and could just see in the distance a patch of light that looked like daylight. " Yes, " she said, " I can see the wardrobe door."

露茜拼命在树缝间张望，只见远处有一小块亮光，像是白天的光。“认得。”她说，“我看得见大衣柜的门了。”

Now, it's nothing more than a misty patch of light in the night sky to the naked eye but if you look more closely, you see that there is a lot more going on.

在夜空之中它只不过是一块模糊的亮斑，当然那只是肉眼观测的结果，但如果靠近一些再看就会发现超出想象的变化正在进行着。

But whether she was coming towards him or going away from him he could not tell until he noticed that the patches of light and shade glided over her figure from below upwards.

但她是朝他走来还是远离他，他无法判断，直到他注意到光影的斑点从下向上滑过她的身影。

She did not know how long they sat in that way, but it got darker and darker, till there was only a pale patch of light on the opposite wall: all the rest was darkness.

她不知道他们就这样坐了多久，但天色越来越暗，直到对面的墙上只有一点点微弱的光亮：其余的都是黑暗。