这暗无天日的日子
“These hopeless, miserable days...”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
将我一直囚禁在此冷宫
“so he's kept me imprisoned the Cold Palace all this time.”
这 暗无天日 的日子
“These hopeless, miserable days...”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In imperial history, the 'cold palace' was an isolated quarter where disgraced imperial consorts endured lifelong solitary neglect.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
complete darkness / bleak and hopeless
A four-character idiom describing utterly oppressive, unjust, or despairing living conditions.
days of unending bleakness
Used as an emphatic noun phrase to condemn agonizing periods of suffering.