bleakness

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美

n.  晦暗，严寒；阴郁；萧瑟凄凉；惨淡无望

BNC.32726 / COCA.29325

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （情形）没有希望的，前景暗淡的
  If a situation isbleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
  1. The immediate outlook remains bleak...
     近期前景依然暗淡。
  2. Many predicted a bleak future.
     很多人都预测前景暗淡。
• ADJ-GRADED （地方）凄清的，荒凉的，萧瑟的
  If you describe a place asbleak, you mean that it looks cold, empty, and unattractive.
  1. The island's pretty bleak.
     这座岛屿一片荒凉。
  2. ...bleak inner-city streets.
     凄清的旧城区街道
• ADJ-GRADED （天气）阴冷的，寒冷的
  When the weather isbleak, it is cold, dull, and unpleasant.
  1. The weather can be quite bleak on the coast.
     沿海地区的天气会非常阴冷。
• ADJ-GRADED （人）无精打采的，沮丧的，阴郁的
  If someone looks or soundsbleak, they look or sound depressed, as if they have no hope or energy.
  1. His face was bleak...
     他脸色阴郁。
  2. Alberg gave him a bleak stare.
     阿尔伯格沮丧地凝视着他。

英英释义

noun

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere
  1. the nakedness of the landscape
  Synonym:desolationbarenessnakedness

双语例句

• Austen balances out that bleakness with wisdom, with humor, with romance, and above all with a deeply satisfying sense of form, analyzed by scholars and sensed by general readers.
  奥斯汀用智慧、幽默、浪漫以及最突出的一点&非常令人赏心悦目的形式感，冲淡了她作品中的这种凄凉色彩。
• This highly-industrialized area is notorious for pollution and general atmospheric bleakness.
  这个高度工业化的地区因为污染和灰暗的大气层而臭名昭著。
• But even in the bitter, windswept bleakness of a Scottish beach, a helping hand is never far away. Sealed with a kiss, a young grey seal is seen nurturing her newborn baby through the first few days of its life.
  然而尽管身陷艰苦，在苏格兰海滩上帮助之手也从未远离。一只年轻的海豹正宠爱地呵护着它刚出生不久的幼崽。
• Bruce can be forgiven the bleakness of his initial mood.
  布鲁斯起初的阴郁情绪是可以理解的。
• But the hotel also provides a vantage-point: photos from the top-floor revolving restaurant give a good picture of the bleakness of Pyongyang.
  不过，宾馆的位置还比较有利&站在顶楼旋转餐厅拍照，平壤的苍凉景象尽收眼底。
• Above towered the white dagoba, its chalky paleness casting a chilly gloom on all around so that the three lakes, despite their man-made adornments, revealed their full northern bleakness.
  白塔却高耸到云间，傻白傻白的把一切都带得冷寂萧索，整个的三海在人工的雕琢中显出北地的荒寒。
• Bertha was looking out of the window at the bleakness of the day.
  伯莎望着窗外晦暗的天色。
• By analyzing the specific application of comedy in Waiting, this paper tries to interpret the unique artistic world where bleakness is revealed in humor of Eileen Changs creation further.
  分析《等》中喜剧因素的具体运用，可以进一步阐释张爱玲创作喜中见悲的独特艺术世界。
• Eileen Changs prose thus often describes the inner bleakness of its characters.
  张爱玲的散文多处依靠听觉实现对内心苍凉感的描绘。
• Posterity will remember him for the books in which neither farce nor bleakness has the upper hand.
  后代不会忘记他，因为他写过几部既不胡闹也不阴冷的书。