I saw their lives as through a telescope, all twinkling stars and shafts of light, missing the details that truly defined their days.

我仿佛是透过望远镜看到她们的生活，满是闪烁的星星和一缕缕光线，而漏掉了她们生活岁月的真实细节。

Bond glanced at the four thin shafts of light, and then he looked up again into the great African sky.

邦德瞥了一眼那四道细细的光柱，然后他再次抬头望向广阔的非洲天空。

So two recent studies of European buckthorn in North America, which attempt to find this out, are a welcome shaft of light on the debate.

最近对鼠李属植物（从欧洲引入北美）的两项研究有助于搞清这一问题。所以该研究在这场争论中受人瞩目。