There will be nowhere for the benighted soul to turn.

陷入黑暗的灵魂将无处可去。

And that's the imperial idea… and we're going to help these other poor benighted people up the ladder with us.

这就是帝国的理念… … 我们要帮助这些贫穷愚昧的人和我们一起提升。

Every minute of every day presents us with untold options for filling our minds with the mania, exploits, disasters, furies, reversals, triumphs, insanity and cataclysms of complete strangers around our benighted planet.

大脑每时每刻都被无穷无尽的选择淹没，来自陌生人的狂躁、壮举、灾难、暴怒、胜利、疯狂、动乱遍布世界各地。

And citizens of a few benighted places, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, have to submit to the cost and bureaucracy and often the humiliation—of the visa-application process to get to most places.

而少数几个落后国家如伊拉克和阿富汗等国的公民想去大部分地方都不得不忍受签证申请的高成本和繁缛流程，还时常被羞辱。

So, all notions that the British were trying to do their colonial enterprise out of enlightened despotism to try and bring the benefits of colonialism and civilisation to the benighted.

因此， 所有的想法都认为英国人试图从开明的专制主义中进行他们的殖民企业，试图将殖民主义和文明的好处带给愚昧的人。

Europeans will better understand his point of view than Americans, poor, benighted provincials, who are denied a true appreciation of caste and of the fact that " the king can do no wrong" .

欧洲人会比美国人更好地理解他的观点，美国人是贫穷、愚昧的省民，他们被剥夺了对种姓的真正欣赏和“国王不会做错事”这一事实。

They felt it might be a being partially benighted in the vale of ignorance, but it could not be one who would willingly devote his rich natural gifts to the purposes of wanton treachery.

他们觉得这可能是一个在无知谷中部分蒙昧的人，但不可能是一个愿意将他丰富的天赋用于肆意背叛的目的的人。

'What is so unusual in you, ' she said, in a didactic tone justifiable in a horsewoman's address to a benighted walker, 'is that your knowledge of certain things should be combined with your ignorance of certain other things'.

“你的不同寻常之处在于，”她用女骑士对愚昧的步行者的说教语气说道，“你对某些事物的了解应该与你对某些其他事物的无知相结合”。