pitch darkness
noun [ U ] uk/ˌpɪtʃ ˈdɑːk.nəs/ us/ˌpɪtʃ ˈdɑːrk.nəs/ (also pitch blackness, /ˌpɪtʃ ˈblæk.nəs/ /ˌpɪtʃ ˈblæk.nəs/)
漆黑，
extreme darkness
Suddenly the lights went out, and the house was left in pitch-darkness. 突然间，灯灭了，屋子里只剩下一片漆黑。
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- With the whole city in pitch darkness, no one knew what was happening.
- They spent most nights trudging up mountains in pitch darkness.
- I should have been in pitch darkness, were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and there, a glimmer of moonshine.
- The rescue vessel was the Alaskan Rose, which had been sailing just seven miles away when catastrophe struck its sister boat in the rolling pitch-blackness of the open ocean.